COMMUNITY WARNING SYSTEM DELIVERY STATISTICS
No technology is 100% effective, so CWS uses multiple notification channels in a best effort to notify citizens of the county of an emergency.
* Represents the elapsed time between when the alert was published and the latest text message was delivered to the cell phone carriers ( ATT, Verizon, Sprint, etc.) The majority of text messages reached cell phone carriers in less time. The time it takes a person to actually receive the text is dependent upon how quickly individual cell phone carriers deliver the message to their customers.
Date | SMS (text)* | Email | Voice Calls | Facebook | Twitter | EAS | Website | Sirens | Radio | Notes |
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12/27/2015 Gas Outage/ Warming Center 7:15pm | 1,862 | 762 | 4,305 | Under 2 min. | Under 2 min. | Under 2 min. | ||||
21 min. | 21 min. | 21 min. |