Radio and TV stations along the coast were expected to broadcast a test of an emergency alert like what you’d hear during a real tsunami. But some communities didn’t hear it at all, including Homer, Kodiak, Unalaska, Sitka, Ketchikan and Kenai.
Wednesday was the annual test of Alaska’s tsunami warning system. Radio and TV stations along the coast of the Gulf of Alaska were expected to broadcast a test of an emergency alert – similar to what you’d hear during a real tsunami.
Dave Snider, with the U.S. Tsunami Warning Center in Palmer, says a combination of technical glitches, along with some confusion, prevented the test from reaching those places. Forecasters in Anchorage failed to pass the message along.An abundance of caution But when forecasters at the NWS Office in Anchorage received the test signal, they failed to enable the regional Emergency Alert System. So the message never reached radio stations like KBBI in Homer, KMXT in Kodiak or KUCB in Unalaska.
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