Rare Weather Alert Prompts Travel Warning, Opening of Emergency Shelter

High avalanche risk prompted National Weather Service (NWS) meteorologists to issue a rare weather warning in Juneau, Alaska, ...
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Public Safety During Severe Weather and Other Disasters Could Be Improved With Better Alert Systems and Improved Understanding of Social and Behavioral Factors

WASHINGTON – Our ability to observe and predict severe weather events and other disasters has improved markedly over recent decades, yet this progress does not always translate into similar advances ...

Cherokee County has new weather alert system, urges residents to sign up

When severe weather hits Cherokee County, the emergency operations center activates. “January, February is kind of our peak ...
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‘CodeRED’ emergency alert system impacted by cybersecurity breach; emergency alerts will still reach SC residents

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCBD) – A cybersecurity incident appears to have caused a nationwide outage of an emergency notification system called “CodeRED.” The CodeRED notification system is just one of several ...