Wireless Emergency Alerts
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Oct 8, 2026
James SpannGUEST
But the most important message for the tailgaters out there during the day, be sure your phone is charged or have a way of charging it and be sure that it's on so you can receive weather notifications.
James SpannGUEST
And every phone sold in the United States has wireless emergency alerts.
James SpannGUEST
That's that loud tone out you get.
James SpannGUEST
That's not an app, it's built into your phone.
Scott JalbertGUEST
So we have different systems that we utilize to warn the public in, in the event of an emergency.
Scott JalbertGUEST
Um, one of the tools that we use is what we call WEA or Wireless Emergency Alert, and that's, that's automatically on your phone unless you turn it off.
Scott JalbertGUEST
And that is, um, i- it's, iss- those issues are ...
Scott JalbertGUEST
I'm sorry.
Scott JalbertGUEST
Those warnings are issued by either the National Weather Service or by our office.
Scott JalbertGUEST
Uh, we're responsible for all public alerting in the, in the county.
Scott JalbertGUEST
And so what that system is, is if there is a tornado warning, if there is a flood warning, uh, the National Weather Service will actually send out those alerts via WEA.
Scott JalbertGUEST
The other tool that we have, um, that we use probably more often than not, is a, a system called Alert Slow.
Robyn HeffernanGUEST
If it is disseminated by the issuing agency or from a state EOC, they can WIA it themselves.
Robyn HeffernanGUEST
We cannot as the National Weather Service because we only have a WIA, Wireless Emergency Alert, for those who might not know, yet another acronym.
Robyn HeffernanGUEST
We only have wireless emergency alert authority for weather disasters.
Robyn HeffernanGUEST
And currently through the alerting system, the national alerting system, fire is determined a non-weather emergency, which is could be kind of a source of some of the issues that are emanating in this space from that and something that could be looked at as an element that might help move us forward in this area.
Troy KimmelPANELIST
Thank you both.
Jim BellerGUEST
We have two things we can do there.
Jim BellerGUEST
We can use WEA, which is a wireless emergency alerts.
Jim BellerGUEST
That goes to your cellphone.
Kory HoneaHOST
Mm-hmm.
18 MINS LATER
Kory HoneaHOST
in an alert and warning system.
Kory HoneaHOST
What are they?
Jim BellerGUEST
Is, uh, WEA-
Kory HoneaHOST
Okay