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    From danny burstein@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jul 8 02:52:22 2025
    "level" used a bit loosely...

    expanding: there are diffferent levels of alerts and you can,
    for example, tell your phone to ignore "Amber" (missing children)
    pageouts. Numerous others, too.

    But you can NOT (or shouldn't be able to) shut off the highest
    level ones, i.e., the Presidential "you have 10 minutes until
    nuclear self destruct".

    Anyone know what category NOAA alerts come under?

    Thanks

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  • From Garrett Wollman@21:1/5 to danny burstein on Tue Jul 8 17:58:02 2025
    In article <[email protected]>,
    danny burstein <[email protected]> wrote:
    "level" used a bit loosely...

    expanding: there are diffferent levels of alerts and you can,
    for example, tell your phone to ignore "Amber" (missing children)
    pageouts. Numerous others, too.

    But you can NOT (or shouldn't be able to) shut off the highest
    level ones, i.e., the Presidential "you have 10 minutes until
    nuclear self destruct".

    Anyone know what category NOAA alerts come under?

    I don't, but I do know that NOAA/NWS has been the subject of a lot of
    criticism in the past for issuing excessive weather warnings through
    the Wireless Emergency Alert system, particularly flash-flood alerts, particularly at night, leading people to disable those alerts on their
    phones and miss important alerts. NWS was supposed to have
    recalibrated their thresholds for WEAs but many people may still have
    them disabled.

    On my phone, I have the following high-level categories:

    National
    Extreme
    Severe
    AMBER
    Public safety
    State and local tests

    I have "extreme" and "severe" enabled and never get any so I don't
    have a message history to inspect.

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