Your phone may alert you to a flash flood warning because the Wireless Emergency Alerts system sends urgent warnings to phones in affected areas. In southwestern Connecticut, the National Weather ...

The Ada County Sheriff's Office is informing the public of a new emergency alert system that will take effect July 31. "Ada Alert" will replace the previous sys ...

Arlington officials say they will be ready to send emergency warnings to cell phones using the nation’s most far-reaching wireless emergency alert system, IPAWS, before World Cup games begin at ...

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UNITED STATES (CBS) — Your electronic devices may alarm you today — but there’s a reason for that. A nationwide test of the federal emergency alert system will be broadcast at approximately 2:20 p.m.

When there’s an emergency in your area, the Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) system is a critical tool for government officials to alert the general public of imminent threats. It can be used to notify ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A text message from Warn Central Texas, the regional emergency alert system (Austin American-Statesman) Austin will participate in ...