Couple of quick questions regarding alert triggers.
1) During Hurricane Harvey, our location received hundreds of NWS alerts for all kinds of weather including tropical storms, hurricane, flood, flash flood, tornado, etc. Since we don't live anywhere near a river or the coast, I was trying to configure my trigger alert for anything that wasn't flood related. I tried putting in "warning" into the "trigger keywords" field as well as specific items like "tornado,thunderstorm,hurricane,tropical" comma separated, and then put in the word "flood" in the "alert name not contains" but then I didn't get any alerts. I took flood out of the not contains field, but then would sometimes receive flood warnings since the alert summary might contain hurricane or tropical in it. How do you create a generic alert trigger for any warnings except for flood warnings? Attached is what I currently have, but this generated flood warnings and watches due to the keyword search.
2) relates to multiple alerts received at the same time. It appears that the alert trigger fires multiple times, one for each matching alert, but this causes media and speech to be cutoff as the next alert is fired. Is there a way to only have the alert trigger fire for the most recent alert, or more preferred, the most critical alert? Say a severe thunderstorm watch is in effect and also a tornado warning. I'd like for the tornado warning to be the only alert that is triggered so it doesn't get cut off by the less severe thunderstorm watch. How are multiple matching alerts supposed to be handled?
1) During Hurricane Harvey, our location received hundreds of NWS alerts for all kinds of weather including tropical storms, hurricane, flood, flash flood, tornado, etc. Since we don't live anywhere near a river or the coast, I was trying to configure my trigger alert for anything that wasn't flood related. I tried putting in "warning" into the "trigger keywords" field as well as specific items like "tornado,thunderstorm,hurricane,tropical" comma separated, and then put in the word "flood" in the "alert name not contains" but then I didn't get any alerts. I took flood out of the not contains field, but then would sometimes receive flood warnings since the alert summary might contain hurricane or tropical in it. How do you create a generic alert trigger for any warnings except for flood warnings? Attached is what I currently have, but this generated flood warnings and watches due to the keyword search.
2) relates to multiple alerts received at the same time. It appears that the alert trigger fires multiple times, one for each matching alert, but this causes media and speech to be cutoff as the next alert is fired. Is there a way to only have the alert trigger fire for the most recent alert, or more preferred, the most critical alert? Say a severe thunderstorm watch is in effect and also a tornado warning. I'd like for the tornado warning to be the only alert that is triggered so it doesn't get cut off by the less severe thunderstorm watch. How are multiple matching alerts supposed to be handled?
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