{"id":32570,"date":"2018-02-06T12:09:06","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T17:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=32570"},"modified":"2018-02-06T12:09:06","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T17:09:06","slug":"do-we-need-a-warning-about-warnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=32570","title":{"rendered":"Do We Need A Warning About Warnings?"},"content":{"rendered":"

NBC News<\/a> posted a story today which included the following:<\/p>\n

Some residents along the East Coast<\/a> received a false tsunami warning on Tuesday morning after a private company sent out an alert following a monthly test by the National Weather Service<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A tweet from the National Weather Service (NWS) in Charleston, South Carolina<\/a>, said the alert was sent around 8:30 a.m. ET.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“We have been notified that some users received this test message as an actual Tsunami Warning,” the NWS tweeted, adding that a tsunami warning was “not in effect.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

…In a statement to NBC News, the NWS said that a routine test was sent out and that the agency is investigating why it was communicated as an actual tsunami.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“The test message was released by at least one private sector company as an official Tsunami Warning, resulting in widespread reports of tsunami warnings<\/a> received via phones and other media across the East Coast, Gulf of Mexico<\/a>, and the Caribbean<\/a>. We’re currently looking into why the test message was communicated as an actual tsunami warning, and will provide more information as soon as we have it,” the NWS said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The agency said their test message “was not disseminated to the public via any communications channels operated by the National Weather Service.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

The push notification sent to phones in South Carolina was reportedly sent by the AccuWeather<\/a> app, according to The Post and Courier of Charleston.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

AccuWeather also tweeted that the notification was a test, not an actual warning.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“The National Weather Service Tsunami Warning this morning was a TEST. No Tsunami warning is in effect <\/a>for the East Coast of the U.S.,” the tweet said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It was not immediately clear how many people received the warning.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Similar reports were also made in New York<\/a>, Boston, Miami and Houston.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It seems as if some of our emergency notification systems need to be looked at and improved.<\/p>\n

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