[nws-changes] 20131113: blizzard & Ice storm warnings fwd: ADMIN NOTICE NOUS41 KWBC

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Service Change Notice 13-71
National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC
248 PM EST Wed Nov 13 2013
To: Subscribers: 
          -Family of Services
          -NOAA Weather Wire Service
          -Emergency Managers Weather Information Network
          -NOAAPORT
          Other NWS partners and NWS employees
From: Michael J. Szkil 
          Chief, Awareness Branch
          Performance and Awareness Division
          Office of Climate, Water, and Weather Services
Subject: Blizzard and Ice Storm Warnings to No Longer Activate 
          Wireless Emergency Alerts By Default Effective
          November 13, 2013
Starting at approximately 3 pm EST, Wednesday, November 13, 2013, 
Blizzard and Ice Storm Warnings will no longer activate Wireless
Emergency Alert (WEA) capable cell phones. These warnings will
continue to be provided over other NWS dissemination services.

On June 28, 2012, NWS began disseminating its most critical
warnings to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS) for broadcast
on WEA capable cell phones. Since then NWS has been collecting
public feedback and working to refine the list of NWS warning
types that activate WEA. To make this determination, NWS factors
in the urgency, severity and certainty of the warnings types;
geo-targeting and the capabilities of cell phones.

After reviewing the customer feedback and comments, NWS has made
changes to the WEA broadcast list. These warnings will continue
to be provided over other NWS dissemination services.  WEA
messages will continue for:
- Tornado Warnings 
- Flash Flood Warnings
- Hurricane and Typhoon Warnings
- Extreme Wind Warnings
- Dust Storm Warnings
NWS is developing future capabilities which will allow activation 
of WEA for weather and hydrologic events based on expected event
impact rather than by warning type alone.

All major wireless carriers and hundreds of smaller carriers are
taking part in WEA on a voluntary basis. To find out if your
phone is WEA-capable or if you have other questions related to
the receipt of WEA on your cell phone, please contact your
wireless carrier or check the link:

http://ctia.org/wea

For information about WEA as related to the NWS, please visit:

http://weather.gov/wirelessalerts

For general information about WEA, please visit

http://www.fema.gov/wireless-emergency-alerts


For information about FEMA IPAWS, please visit
http://www.fema.gov/emergency/ipaws 

For questions or comments about NWS participation in IPAWS or
WEA, please contact:
Mike Gerber 
Emerging Dissemination Technologies Program Lead
NOAA/National Weather Service
Office of Climate, Water, and Weather Services
Silver Spring, MD
301-713-0090 x170
Mike.Gerber@xxxxxxxx
Service Change Notices are online at: http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm $$
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