[EAS] Volcano Warning - the unused event code
Sean Donelan
sean at donelan.com
Wed Sep 29 20:36:44 CDT 2021
In case you are wondering what are the most common IPAWS event codes,
including EAS, NWS, PUBLIC and WEA. IPAWS has not forward NWS events
to EAS since 2014.
June 2012 to September 2021
Code Total English Event Description
National Codes
RWT 21824 Required Weekly Test
RMT 2306 Required Monthly Test
NPT 14 National Periodic Test
EAN 1 Emergency Action Notification
EAT 0 Emergency Action Termination (deprecated)
NIC 0 National Information Center (undefined)
State/Local Codes (voluntary)
CAE 1890 Child Abduction Emergency
LAE 1822 Local Area Emergency
CEM 1486 Civil Emergency Message
ADR 682 Administrative Message
FRW 592 Fire Warning
LEW 588 Law Enforcement Warning
EVI 551 Evacuation Immediate
DMO 510 Practice/Demo Warning
CDW 138 Civil Danger Warning
SPW 135 Shelter In Place Warning
TOE 110 911 Telephone Outage Emergency
EQW 54 Earthquake Warning
HMW 36 Hazardous Materials Warning
BLU 32 Blue Alert
NUW 7 Nuclear Power Plant Warning
AVW 6 Avalanche Warning
RHW 2 Radiological Hazard Warning
AVA 1 Avalanche Watch
NMN 0 Network Message Notification (undefined)
VOW 0 Volcano Warning
Weather Codes (voluntary)
NWS 527245 National Weather Service
SPS 523284 Special Weather Statement
SVR 169096 Severe Thunderstorm Warning
OTH 92631 Other Event Code
FLW 56803 Flood Warning
SMW 35764 Special Marine Warning
FFW 35640 Flash Flood Warning
TOR 20234 Tornado Warning
WSW 17368 Winter Storm Warning
SVA 14701 Severe Thunderstorm Watch
FFA 13267 Flash Flood Watch
WSA 10591 Winter Storm Watch
HWW 8917 High Wind Warning
FLS 7059 Flood Statement
TOA 6513 Tornado Watch
HWA 4700 High Wind Watch
TRW 4514 Tropical Storm Warning
SVS 3468 Severe Weather Statement
HLS 3410 Hurricane Statement
TRA 2812 Tropical Storm Watch
FLA 2194 Flood Watch
BZW 1907 Blizzard Warning
CFW 1442 Coastal Flood Warning
HUA 945 Hurricane Watch
HUW 942 Hurricane Warning
CFA 820 Coastal Flood Watch
SSA 619 Storm Surge Watch
FFS 567 Flash Flood Statement
DSW 487 Dust Storm Warning
SSW 486 Storm Surge Warning
EWW 28 Extreme Wind Warning
TSA 7 Tsunami Watch
TSW 6 Tsunami Warning
*NWS is used for non-EAS weather codes, OTH is used for non-EAS codes
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