Accuweather sent out a “tsunami warning” on Tuesday morning, an alarming message that turned out to be a mistake.
This took 4 clicks in @accuweather to find out that the Upper West Side Tsunami Warning issued is only a test. Congrats to the Hawaiian Missile Alert Guy on his new gig at @NWSNewYorkNY. Looping in my friends @LeeGoldbergABC7 @billritter7 @westsiderag @AmyFreeze7 @NYDailyNews pic.twitter.com/hJWhfnEiJf
— West Side Yenta (@WestSideYenta) February 6, 2018
When @accuweather says #tsunami warning for #NYC #WestVillage and #UpperWestSide do they mean Rain or Snow? 🤔#weatheralert pic.twitter.com/jTI8oKu7lJ
— 𝙶𝚒𝚖𝚘 𝙽𝚊𝚜𝚒𝚏𝚏 (@GimoNasiff) February 6, 2018
Apparently the National Weather Service was testing a tsunami alert, but the word test didnt make it into the final message. The weather service is looking into it.
***THERE IS NO TSUNAMI WARNING***
A Tsunami Test was conducted earlier this morning, that did have TEST in the message. We are currently trying to find out how a message went out as a warning. We will update you when we find out more.
— NWS New York NY (@NWSNewYorkNY) February 6, 2018
Would like to be the first to formally thank all the first responders, second responders and third responders for their heroic actions in convincing the Tsunami to not happen. One look at the Upper West Side’s finest and I’m sure that wave turned right back around. Proud to be an UWSer on days like this!
Is there any bread orb milk left in Fairway?
this article just blows me away.
Really drowns out the competition, too!
Did the guy from Hawaii get a job here?
On Jan 5th, the Accuweather mac widget showed temps in the -90’s. That one never got corrected. Tsunami is way more fun. Gotta love fake news!
Well, that’s a load off my mind, though I think tsunamis on the Hudson are probably a pretty rare event. I’m still gonna check my FEMA map.
So uhh you guys posted an article literally a week ago that stated the following…
“Eliot Calhoune and Omar Bourne of New York City Emergency Management say that false alarms are very unlikely to occur in New York City since there is significant redundancy built into the Alert procedure. Before any alert would be issued via a wireless Emergency Alert (WEA) as it did in Hawaii, the alert would be reviewed by a supervisor and then approved by Commissioner Joseph Esposito.”
https://www.westsiderag.com/2018/01/30/a-local-guide-to-preparing-for-a-nuclear-emergency
I feel like some good opportunity for follow up with “Omar and Elliot”
I just saw the play, “The Children” a few days ago. Weird and awful: First we have a false nuclear emergency then a false tsunami. Both took place in the play. Very, very sad.
This is another reason I turned off the government alerts on my iphone.
A political tsunami did hit Washington D.C. and we all were given timely warning about it. Didn’t do much good.