Re: U.S. test of national alerts on Oct. 4 at 2:20pm EDT (1820 UTC)

[Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>]

Inter-agency bureaucracy.

FEMA is part of Homeland Security.  National Weather Service is part of 
the Commerce Department.  Different departments of the government.

Weather radios will active for a White House issued alert from the 
President.  NOAA doesn't activate weather radios for FEMA tests.  Because.

FEMA does activate WEA for specific NOAA/NWS high-impact alerts, and 
Earthquake alerts from USGS.

FEMA, NWS, etc have FAQs and have briefed the press since 2011.

Public warning in the U.S. is FURBARed if you look too deeply.  But most 
people don't care until a tornado blows through their house at 2am.



On Wed, 4 Oct 2023, Grant Taylor via NANOG wrote:
> On 10/4/23 1:45 PM, Aaron de Bruyn via NANOG wrote:
> > I was kinda surprised that none of my NOAA weather radios went off. I sorta 
> > assumed they'd be tied into the whole "national" alert setup.
>
> That surprises me.
>
> Did the newer alert not get bridged into the same system that NOAA radios 
> use?
>
> Is this by chance a Specific Area Message Encoding (S.A.M.E.) filtering / 
> lack of data issue?
>
> Can anyone corroborate NOAA weather radios not alerting?