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?