[nws-changes] 20120619: wireless emergency alerts rollout-Fwd: ADMIN NOTICE NOUS41 KWBC

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• Subject: [nws-changes] 20120619: wireless emergency alerts rollout-Fwd: ADMIN NOTICE NOUS41 KWBC
• From: Linda Miller <lmiller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 11:28:25 -0600

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Public Information Notice Amended
National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC
125 PM EDT Tue June 19 2012

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:  Wireless Emergency Alerts Rollout Date Revised

Amended to move start date to on or shortly after June 27, 2012.
At that time, NWS will pass through alerts from the Federal
Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Integrated Public Alert and
Warning System (IPAWS) to the Commercial Mobile Alert System.
This system is also known as Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA).
The rollout date was revised in order to resolve a connectivity
issue between NWS and FEMA.

For information about IPAWS, please visit

http://www.fema.gov/emergency/ipaws/

For more information about WEA and a list of participating
carriers, see

http://fema.gov/emergency/ipaws/cmas.shtm

If you have any questions or comments about NWS participation in
IPAWS, 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

National Public Information Notices are online at:

http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm

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