ALERT is dedicated to providing Skywarn and other emergency
communications messaging services using amateur radio. ALERT works
closely with the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Alabaster,
the Birmingham-Jefferson Co. Emergency Management Agency and with other
public safety and amateur
radio emergency communications groups involved
in Skywarn services elsewhere across Alabama.
ALERT's Mission Statement, adopted by its Board of Directors, states:
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To promote and enhance Amateur Radio Emergency
Communications through training and the use of
operating standards during severe weather and
other emergencies. |
ALERT members activate whenever severe weather threatens counties
across the northern two thirds of Alabama and four counties in west
Georgia. Coverage area includes all counties in the Coverage Warning
Area as designated by the NWS.
Activations are designed to provide the NWS with the fastest possible,
real-time relay of spotter and other severe weather information so that
forecasters can issue severe weather warnings as appropriate to warn
the public. ALERT members who have met training qualification
requirements are dispatched to the NWS to operate as Skywarn Net
Relays, helping to pass reports from established Skywarn Nets operated
by other amateur radio emergency communications groups elsewhere
in Alabama.
ALERT provides emergency communications services to the NWS seven days
a week, 365 days a year through use of a 24 hour on-call system.
To learn more about who we are and what we do, read these
Frequently Asked Questions.
