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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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