NOAA Needs Gauge How Well Emergency Alerts Disseminate: GAO
NOAA needs to do more to ensure emergency alerts about tsunamis are reaching at-risk populations in Tribal, rural and remote areas, the GAO said Tuesday. NOAA relies primarily on its Weather Radio system to deliver warnings to listeners and the…
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emergency alert system, the Federal Emergency Management Agency Integrated Public Alert & Warning System (FEMA IPAWS) and its website and social media channels to issue warnings, but the agency should assess the extent of NOAA Weather Radio coverage and ascertain whether those at-risk communities have access, GAO said. It said NOAA should work more with the FCC and FEMA to determine how to use IPAWS to deliver tsunami alert to EAS.