Wireless Emergency Alerts

For other uses, see WEA (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with the Emergency Alert System, the radio and television counterpart to Wireless Emergency Alerts.
An example of a Wireless Emergency Alert on an Android smartphone, indicating a Tornado Warning in the covered area.

Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA, formerly known as the Commercial Mobile Alert System (CMAS), and prior to that as the Personal Localized Alerting Network (PLAN)),[1] is an alerting network in the United States designed to disseminate emergency alerts to mobile devices such as cell phones and pagers. Organizations are able to disseminate and coordinate emergency alerts and warning messages through WEA and other public systems by means of the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System.[2]

  1. ^ "Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA)". FCC.gov. 6 May 2014. Retrieved 2015-07-15.
  2. ^ "Integrated Public Alert & Warning System". fema.gov. Federal Emergency Management Agency. September 18, 2018. Retrieved September 22, 2018. IPAWS provides public safety officials with an effective way to alert and warn the public about serious emergencies using the Emergency Alert System (EAS), Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Weather Radio, and other public alerting systems from a single interface.