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Re: [telecom] that Texas horror ques: what "level" are the NOAA cellphone alerts?

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In article <Pine.NEB.4.64.2507080247350.12056@panix3.panix.com>,
danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com> wrote:
>"level" used a bit loosely...
>
>expanding:  there are diffferent levels of alerts and you can,
>for example, tell your phone to ignore "Amber" (missing children)
>pageouts.  Numerous others, too.
>
>But you can NOT (or shouldn't be able to) shut off the highest
>level ones, i.e., the Presidential "you have 10 minutes until
>nuclear self destruct".
>
>Anyone know what category NOAA alerts come under?

I don't, but I do know that NOAA/NWS has been the subject of a lot of
criticism in the past for issuing excessive weather warnings through
the Wireless Emergency Alert system, particularly flash-flood alerts,
particularly at night, leading people to disable those alerts on their
phones and miss important alerts.  NWS was supposed to have
recalibrated their thresholds for WEAs but many people may still have
them disabled.

On my phone, I have the following high-level categories:

	National
	Extreme
	Severe
	AMBER
	Public safety
	State and local tests

I have "extreme" and "severe" enabled and never get any so I don't
have a message history to inspect.

-GAWollman

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[telecom] that Texas horror ques: what "level" are the NOAA cellphone  alerts? "danny burstein" <dannyb@panix.com> - 2025-07-08 02:52 +0000
  Re: [telecom] that Texas horror ques: what "level" are the NOAA cellphone  alerts? "Garrett Wollman" <wollman@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> - 2025-07-08 17:58 +0000

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