[sbe-eas] Errant Winter Storm Warning EAS?

[Joe Tymecki]

Greetings - digging this thread back up from a few years ago.
This is timely for us northern New England as we've seen snow squalls twice in the last week.
As a broadcaster we still cannot relay SQW warnings, unfortunately.
Does anyone know if the FCC is moving closer to making snow squalls warnings (SQW) an official warning code for which we can filter in our EAS gear?

Regards,
Joe


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Subject: Re: [sbe-eas] Errant Winter Storm Warning EAS?

Oh wait, nevermind.  I just found an exchange I had with an NWS engineer & Dave Doherty after this thread about this very topic.  SQW might eventually get added to the EAS codes by the FCC (maybe even before 2030!) but for the moment only WEA will recognize them.  So unfortunately they'll go out on the NWS audio and our EAS endecs will "receive" them but have no idea what to do with them because "SQW" is just an "unknown event".

- Aaron


On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 4:39 PM Aaron Read <readaaron at friedbagels.com<mailto:readaaron at friedbagels.com>> wrote:
Interesting - it just happened again.  And there are indeed snow squalls in the forecast today.  Odd that my EAS didn't recognize it, given that we just updated them recently with the TLS issue.

- Aaron

12/18/19 16:10:52
Unknown Event, Matched filter OTHERS, Received on Monitor 3. Log Only.
The National Weather Service has issued an Unknown Event (SQW) for Kent, RI and Providence, RI beginning at 4:07 pm and ending at 4:52 pm (KBOX/NWS)

On Sun, Feb 3, 2019 at 11:57 AM Aaron Read <readaaron at friedbagels.com<mailto:readaaron at friedbagels.com>> wrote:
Several of us in Rhode Island got "SQW" EAS messages from our local NWS weather radios (according to our State Plan, we are required to monitor NWS) and that confused the endecs since there is no SQW code in EAS.  Presumably they meant to warn us about "snow squalls" but I believe the most proper code would be either a winter storm warning or a blizzard code, maybe.

Aaron

On Sun, Feb 3, 2019 at 11:28 AM Sean Donelan <sean at donelan.com<mailto:sean at donelan.com>> wrote:
On Sun, 3 Feb 2019, Rob Dale wrote:
> WSW is the NWS AWIPS header for all winter related products - that does not
> stand for "winter storm warning."
>
> Well - it may have 20 years ago before the NWS added so many products 😊 But
> for now, no, all winter products come with the WSW header.

Ah, thanks for the correction.  I was also surprised by the Snow Squall
Warning (SQW) code coming across as SAME messages earlier this week.  I
guess I'm not up-to-date on current NWS winter weather practices.
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