[EAS] AR, MO, KS Tornado alert that wasn't

[Roy Baum]

>From our local coordination meteorologist at the NWS:

A test of our tornado warning system today as part of Severe Weather Awareness Week was not intended to be broadcast as a Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA).  The new code for a Common Alerting Protocol  (CAP) Handler, implemented last week, mistakenly allowed the test to go out over WEA as an actual warning. The software was fixed immediately. 

Chad Omitt

Roy Baum

On Tue, Mar 2, 2021 at 1:37 PM Barry Mishkind <barry at oldradio.com> wrote:
>It would appear someone at the NWS issued a "test" this morning that was essentially a live WEA alert. This newspaper report notes that cell phones rang ... Not certain about EAS at this moment.

>https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/03/02/tornado-warning-false-alarm-cell-phones/

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