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False Tsunami Warning Sent To the East Coast, Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean (nbcnews.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: Some residents along the East Coast received a false tsunami warning on Tuesday morning after a private company sent out an alert following a monthly test by the National Weather Service. A tweet from the National Weather Service (NWS) in Charleston, South Carolina, said the alert was sent around 8:30 a.m. ET. "We have been notified that some users received this test message as an actual Tsunami Warning," the NWS tweeted, adding that a tsunami warning was "not in effect." In a statement to NBC News, the NWS said that a routine test was sent out and that the agency is investigating why it was communicated as an actual tsunami.
The NWS must not have checked his references. At least they are consistent about the ~30 minute later "Oopsy, we made a bad"
Why would Accuweather (the company who sent this) want the liability and burden of being responsible for (or even touching anything to do with) sending a life-or-death tsunami warning? Would you, as a company say "ok, the National Weather Service sends these things out, let's let them handle this the whole way"? Why would you think it good to take on that role?