This is Severe Weather Awareness Week in Iowa and Tuesday's topic is warning reception. There are many ways to receive alerts when the NWS issues a warning for your location. Relying on hearing a siren before taking action is problematic as sirens are meant to alert folks while outdoors and are single points of failure. Sirens also are not used to alert people to threats like flash floods. The NWS has provided a few links for your review

• Building a Weather- Ready Nation
• Ready Iowa
• Wireless Emergency Alerts
• Alert Iowa

The IEM provides a number of non-operational / educational ways to receive NWS Warnings. These include services provided by "IEMBot" such as RSS feeeds, Twitter automated posts, and real-time web apps.

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