[nws-changes] 20120628: warnings-wireless emergency alerts-Fwd: ADMIN NOTICE NOUS41 KWBC

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• From: Linda Miller <lmiller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 11:36:11 -0600

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Public Information Notice
National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC
106 PM EDT Thu Jun 28 2012

To:       Subscribers:
          -Family of Services
          -NOAA Weather Wire Service
          -Emergency Managers Weather Information Network
          -NOAAPORT
          Other NWS partners and NWS employees

From:     Michael J. Szkil
          Chief, Awareness Branch
          Performance and Awareness Division
          Office of Climate, Water, and Weather Services

Subject:  Warnings Starting to Roll Out on Wireless
          Emergency Alerts

Today, the most critical NWS warnings will begin triggering
Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) on WEA-capable cell phones.

NWS produced Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) messages are pushed
to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Integrated
Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS).  These messages are
formatted to trigger a WEA broadcast for the following types
of NWS warnings.

- Tornado Warnings
- Flash Flood Warnings
- Hurricane and Typhoon Warnings
- Extreme Wind Warnings
- Blizzard and Ice Storm Warnings
- Dust Storm Warnings

Through the summer, the NWS will be working to enable the
triggering of WEA for Tsunami Warnings.

For information about IPAWS, please visit

http://www.fema.gov/emergency/ipaws/

Wireless carriers began rolling out the WEA service across
the nation on April 7, 2012.  All major wireless carriers and
hundreds of smaller carriers are taking part in WEA on a voluntary
basis.  To find out if your phone will get these messages, contact
your wireless carrier or check the link below:

http://fema.gov/emergency/ipaws/cmas.shtm

For information about EAS, please visit

http://www.fema.gov/emergency/ipaws/eas_info.shtm

If you have any questions or comments about NWS participation in
IPAWS, please contact:

Mike Gerber
Emerging Dissemination Technologies Program Lead
NOAA/National Weather Service
Office of Climate, Water, and Weather Services
Silver Spring, MD
301-713-0090 x170
Mike.Gerber@xxxxxxxx

National Public Information Notices are online at:

http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm

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