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Denton County emergency management outlines statewide IPAWS test, warns residents to expect multiple alerts
Summary
Denton County emergency management told the commissioners court that a Texas Division of Emergency Management–directed test of the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS) will run Thursday between 10:00 and 12:30 and could generate multiple Wireless Emergency Alerts to phones; county staff said they will limit testing to internal systems if storms threaten.
Denton County emergency management officials told the Commissioners Court on March 31 that the Texas Division of Emergency Management is directing a statewide emergency-alert test using the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS), and that the county will run a public test of the Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA) broadcast.
Mark Bolan, who the judge introduced from the county’s Emergency Management Department, said the test will exercise two IPAWS subsystems: the broadcast Wireless Emergency Alert that goes to cell phones and the broader integrated public alert architecture. "There is basically, it's gonna say…
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