EAS activations?

[ginkgotree]

Just curious when everyone activates the EAS with severe weather...
For example...Tornado Warnings...or Tornado Watch within Severe Thunderstorm
Warning. We experience it all yesterday. It's Feb! When do you activate?

Also...what about automation with Audio Vault...and EAS...how do you have this
setup?

 

[Banjomax]

> Just curious when everyone activates the EAS with severe
> weather...
> For example...Tornado Warnings...or Tornado Watch within
> Severe Thunderstorm
> Warning. We experience it all yesterday. It's Feb! When
> do you activate?

You activate whenever the safety of the public within your listening area (especially in your community of license) is at risk. Mother Nature sometimes ignores the calendar, as she has shown throughout this so-called winter.

> Also...what about automation with Audio Vault...and
> EAS...how do you have this
> setup?

EAS should be set up to override anything else that may be on the air.

Peace,
User 11648

 

[Robert Bass]

Actually, at least here in Texas, EAS activations for weather are not mandatory. It’s Management’s discretion to use EAS as part of their method for relaying weather information.

R

> You activate whenever the safety of the public within your
> listening area (especially in your community of license) is
> at risk. Mother Nature sometimes ignores the calendar, as
> she has shown throughout this so-called winter.

 

[russ973]

> Actually, at least here in Texas, EAS activations for
> weather are not mandatory. It’s Management’s discretion to
> use EAS as part of their method for relaying weather
> information.
>
> R
>
> > You activate whenever the safety of the public within your
>
> > listening area (especially in your community of license)
> is
> > at risk. Mother Nature sometimes ignores the calendar, as
>
> > she has shown throughout this so-called winter.
>

Exactly... for a while it seemed like whoever worked at the National Weather Service in Charleston (our region) would activate the EAS with a "Flash Flood Warning" any time there was a cloud in the sky. It got ridiculous.<P ID="signature">______________
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[Banjomax]

> Actually, at least here in Texas, EAS activations for
> weather are not mandatory. It’s Management’s discretion to
> use EAS as part of their method for relaying weather
> information.

Same here. We usually ignore watches, but run most time-sensitive warnings (flood, t-storm, etc.), though we usually ignore winter storm warnings. It's Vermont. It snows. We have people in the air studio who can deliver pertinent information to listeners much better than a computer-generated voice from the NWS office 60 miles away.

Peace,
User 11648

 

[zachm]

>You activate whenever the safety of the public within your
> listening area (especially in your community of license) is
> at risk. Mother Nature sometimes ignores the calendar, as
> she has shown throughout this so-called winter.
>
> > Also...what about automation with Audio Vault...and
> > EAS...how do you have this
> > setup?
>
> EAS should be set up to override anything else that may be
> on the air.
>
I allow my EAS911 to activate on Severe Warnings from the NWS. I don't usually do them for watches, as too many times watches don't ever pan out to anything. However, I also have an Emergency reciever at home, so when the NWS activates a Severe Weather Watch, then I usually contact someone at the station to head down and prepare.

We ONLY activate locally for tests and Severe Thunderstorm Warnings and Tornado Warnings affecting our listening area.

We use Audiovault, but according to the rules, you still have to bypass the board and set the EAS to interrupt programming.
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