[EAS] After incident EAS reviews - Hurricane Ida

[Dave Kline]

Warning vs Emergency?

I'm curious as to the difference (technically, as stated in some emergency ops procedure manual) between a Flash Flood Warning and a Flash Flood Emergency.

Coming from an EAS perspective (and having no involvement in WEA) there are Watches and Warnings. A Watch as we know, alerts us to the possibility of an event happening. Whereas the Warning says the event is happening right now.
So what does "Emergency" convey in WEA, and where does it fit in the level of severity? It sounds like it should be right up there with a Warning? But does it convey more, or less severity when compared to a Warning?

And why a disparity between EAS and WEA in how an event is described? It's true that EAS and WEA are different tools, but should the resulting language for the severity of an event be the same across platforms? Do we have any "Emergency level events in EAS?

I need schoolin'.

On Sat, Sep 4, 2021 at 1:26 AM Sean Donelan sean at donelan.com wrote:
On Fri, 3 Sep 2021, Sean Donelan wrote:
 
For example, the National Weather Service issued several FLASH FLOOD
EMERGENCY warnings.  However, NWS did not trigger the EMERGENCY
language template in Wireless Emergency Alerts.  The FLASH FLOOD
EMERGENCY alerts appeared on cell phones as regular FLASH FLOOD WARNING
messages.

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Dave Kline - Solder Jockey
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