skipbee
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It was recently announced that all of the major cell phone carriers are participating in this service to provide in all locales, text messages for severe weather alerts and or other emergency information.
That where ever there is cell phone service a text message will be sent warning of tornados, wild fires, or any other dangerous conditions in that local area. The service is free, except you pay the text fee, ours is .15 cents per text message recieved. We needed to authorize our service to send us text messages. It seems like a reasonable subsitute for an auto alert radio which has to be turned on and retuned as it goes from county to county.
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skipnchar
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Be careful what you sign up for. I have a daughter who signed up a couple of years ago and her phone is ringing almost CONSTANTLY for one reason or another. Just be selective in what you ask to be notified of  She complains a lot about it but guess she doesn't find it unpleasant enough to make the changes to get it stopped.
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The Weather Channel app also shows us the Severe ! active alerts and storm watches. You just need to plug in the zip code or town.
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15 cents.
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pdlarson
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I am not sure but I suspect this is what Skipbee is talking about. This is a new service from the NWS or maybe FEMA that is being rolled out gradually across different regions. Hopefully they will not abuse it. I doubt they will do like vendors of some free products who constantly nag about upgrades for a fee do to so many smart phone users, ugh!
FEMA IPAWS and WEA, Wireless Emergency Alerts.
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JoeChiOhki
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FEMA IPAWS project
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My local news station sends me updates about weather, traffic and big breaking news all day. I like it and its free.
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jim87vette
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We have our Cell phones hooked to a local service we signed up for on the net.It called yesterday right before we were hit with some fairly severe weather.Good service.I agree with others watch out for copy cat programs that are out to make money.
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The weather bug app for android works well. It sounds a tone and puts a red triangle on the bar. It will send alerts for any location you have listed on the app. Settings allow you only get notices for things you select in the settings. Works great and is free.
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SCVJeff
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You missed the most important acronym of them all:
C ommon
A lert
P rotocol
CAP is the protocol that delivers the alerts located on the iPAWS server run by FEMA in Washington. It is the CAP messages that the phones will react to as well as the protocol that will enable broadcasters to get away from these canned messages to convey more specific information about pending events than the generic alerts they broadcast now, and only add important info via audio on the TV (because we have no other choice right now.
In the meantime there are several CAP enabled alert apps for Smartphones. For the iPhone, there is ELERTS, Weather Radio, Wx Alert USA, and a few more that I'm testing for an advisory group to the FCC & FEMA, developing best practices in their implementation, use, and regulation of this monster they've built and are still trying to figure out it's true potential. I'm not sure where the cellular companies are at in their rollout of SMS CAP alerts (it's a sub-committee I'm not on), but the above apps work well, not perfectly. Some are $10, some free. It just depends on the level of sofistication you wand, or the developer thinks their app is worth.
CAP is currently running weekly tests from the iPAWS server across the US and it's terrirories. NWS is currently on-board and a handful of states (the rest are either clueless or have no $$).
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