The Emergency Alert System Dictionary: A Crash Course in EAS Terminology and Event Codes

This was initially supposed to be a surprise for the channel reaching 10K subs, but I got incredibly side-tracked. This is a video idea I've had ever since I started my channel. I wanted to make an easy to understand guide to Emergency Alert System event codes, in order to help out new creators. Feel free to use and share this guide however you want (other than reposting it on your channel obviously).

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[nicco]

#### Timestamps ####
0:00 Intro

#### Weather codes issued by the National Weather Service ####
2:04 Blizzard Warning

2:30 Coastal Flood Warning
2:49 Dust Storm Warning
3:08 Extreme Wind Warning
3:42 Flash Flood Warning
4:12 Flood Warning
4:29 High Wind Warning
5:09 Hurricane Warning
5:39 Severe Thunderstorm Warning
6:07 Severe Weather Statement
6:31 Snow Squall Warning
7:00 Special Marine Warning
7:51 Special Weather Statement
8:11 Storm Surge Warning
8:44 Tornado Warning
9:15 Tsunami Warning
9:31 Tropical Storm Warning
9:45 Winter Storm Warning

#### Non-weather codes issued by the National Weather Service ####
10:49 Avalanche Warning
11:03 Blue Alert
11:16 Child Abduction Emergency (also known as an Amber Alert)
11:44 Civil Danger Warning
12:23 Civil Emergency Message
12:52 Earthquake Warning
13:02 Evacuation Immediate
13:27 Fire Warning
13:47 Hazardous Materials Warning
14:08 Law Enforcement Warning
14:24 Local Area Emergency
14:52 911 Telephone Outage Emergency
15:06 Nuclear Power Plant Warning
15:34 Radiological Hazard Warning
15:58 Shelter-In-Place Warning (Shelter-In-Place Order)
16:19 Volcano Warning

#### Administrative event codes (usually issued by civil authorities)
16:45 Administrative Message
17:03 Practice/Demo Warning
17:15 Required Weekly/Monthly Test

#### National event codes
17:43 Emergency Action Notification
18:02 Emergency Action Termination (will not be used in a real emergency)
18:14 National Information Center

#### Bonus/Other
19:05 Biological Hazard Warning
19:31 Boil Water Warning
19:45 Chemical Hazard Warning
20:00 Contaminated Water Warning
20:12 Contagious Disease Warning
20:27 Dam Break Warning
20:38 Food Contamination Warning
20:53 Iceberg Warning (lmao)
21:10 Industrial Fire Warning
21:27 Landslide Warning
21:38 Wildfire Warning

BONUS: Missing code: Flash Freeze Warning (only issued by Environment and Climate Change Canada)

[derg_txt]

2 things:
- You did a very good job with this video as I am now able to understand _everything_ regarding Alerts

- Beside the "BLUE ALERT", Florida (as far as I heard) has at least 2 other, yet unofficial color alerts:
*Purple Alert Plan* to engage the puplic in a wide spread search of a missing person, and *Silver Alert* to quote "locate missing persons suffering from an irreversible deterioration of intellectual faculties" (or for normies: Elder person with for Example Alzheimer). As far as my friend know and I understand, these are only used by the State of Florida.

[CaptainEllett]

This is basically the first step into becoming an EAS Creator, like me, thx

[misswiftlore]

i'm not an eas creator like you, rather i'm just a weather enthusiast, but this was very very helpful. thanks ace!

[MaggieSama]

This is great!

Fun fact tho: Emergency action terminations have been discontinued by the FCC since 2012, and if an emergency action notification were to actually occur, it would play as any other alert (the only difference is that it would mandatory to play on all stations)

[wbe]

Yo hi EAceS! You’re my favorite eas creator and I love your videos! I always go to you when I’m bored :)

[XXVII]

Even though I’m not a EAS content creator, it is really cool to learn about real/fictional EAS Codes!

This is pretty entertaining.. or educational. Dunno!

[TheEASPlace]

Thank you so much for making this! I've used it a few times now, and I'm making great stuff thanks to it!

[davidsfuntime]

20:53 So I was interested in learning more about this alert as well, so I reached out to the Nws offices in Alaska, and they just got back to me. They said that it isn't used by any office, and never was. It was programmed into NWR since it was going to be used, but never ended up being used.

[Foxfire-oobs]

Your videos have had me tempted to attempt a scenario. This upped that temptation. Thank you for posting this!!!

[fireymanofficial]

Subscribed because I've been curious about a few of these so thank you.

[Mind_Crimes]

Missed a critical detail: the purpose of the Emergency Action Notification (now known as National Emergency Message, but still uses the EAN code) is for the President or their designated representative to address the nation within 10 minutes of issue. Emergency Action Termination & National Information Center Statement have also been retired.

Pro tip: Know which EAS standards you are using in accordance with the time your alert(s) take place. The above comment applies to 2022 & the foreseeable future. Additionally, the extra event codes section were originally implemented around 2002, but are now considered optional. Codes such as Storm Surge Watch/Warning were part of a set of codes implemented for 2017.

[venangoproductions]

I'm already an EAS uploader but this is a great video, also in certain states (such as my own (Pennsylvania)) CAEs are not transmitted by NWR, but by TV, Radio, and WEAs

[Recarsonated]

Awesome stuff. I would honestly not mind hearing the impractical stuff or alerts that other creators have come up with, like the catastrophic danger warning.

[brycelandon]

The Emergency Action Notification has been renamed the National Emergency Message.

The Emergency Action Termination has been discontinued.

And there is now a test called the National Periodic Test in addition to RWTs and RMTs.

[Planet_R.M.]

i would be very interested in that ranking video you alluded too at the end

[importednascar]

Surprisingly, I have heard my version of the EAS (Alert Ready) go off for an admisitrative message, a few tests, and, even a weather warning for an incoming hurricane

[GekoOnYoutube]

Thank you for the information, This was very helpful!

[catsandfriends]

This is pretty cool. Thanks for the info!

[matt]

So a hazardous waste warning is for unintentional releases of hazardous materials, what is the code for an intentional hazardous release?