Saturday, January 5, 2013

Tsunami Advisory Cancelled for Tofino

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BULLETIN
PUBLIC TSUNAMI MESSAGE NUMBER 3
NWS WEST COAST/ALASKA TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER PALMER AK
117 AM AKST SAT JAN 5 2013

THE MAGNITUDE HAS BEEN UPDATED TO 7.5 AND A SMALL TSUNAMI
HAS BEEN OBSERVED AT PORT ALEXANDER, ALASKA.

...THE TSUNAMI WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT...


WARNINGS/ADVISORIES/WATCHES - UPDATED
-------------------------------------
TSUNAMI WARNING IN EFFECT FOR...

 * THE COASTAL AREAS OF BRITISH COLUMBIA AND ALASKA FROM THE
   NORTH TIP OF VANCOUVER ISLAND BRITISH COLUMBIA TO CAPE
   FAIRWEATHER ALASKA/LOCATED 80 MILES SE OF YAKUTAT/


CANCELLATIONS
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 * THE TSUNAMI ADVISORY IS CANCELED FOR THE COASTAL AREAS OF
   BRITISH COLUMBIA FROM THE WASHINGTON-BRITISH COLUMBIA
   BORDER TO THE NORTH TIP OF VANCOUVER ISLAND BRITISH
   COLUMBIA

 * THE TSUNAMI WARNING IS CANCELED FOR THE COASTAL AREAS OF
   ALASKA FROM CAPE FAIRWEATHER ALASKA/LOCATED 80 MILES SE OF
   YAKUTAT/ TO CAPE SUCKLING ALASKA/LOCATED 75 MILES SE OF
   CORDOVA/

 * THE TSUNAMI ADVISORY IS CANCELED FOR THE COASTAL AREAS OF
   ALASKA FROM CAPE SUCKLING ALASKA/LOCATED 75 MILES SE OF
   CORDOVA/ TO KENNEDY ENTRANCE ALASKA/LOCATED 40 MILES SW OF
   HOMER/

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Still nothing on Muni site

Anonymous said...

Was council too busy thinking of who to fire next to realize there was a tsunami advisory ?

Anonymous said...

I am confused as to why you would be looking to the district website. What does the district have to do with tracking a Tsunami. Maybe you should be checking the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center site you would learn something then.

Anonymous said...

In the past this info was posted on the District site.

Anonymous said...

Tsunami siren in town please...we used to have a siren for the fire department before there were pagers. Please bring back the warning system in Tofino an not just at the beach.
Also I would not rely on the DOT for my information - they can barely keep up to date when not in an emergency. BUT with that said i think it took them too long last night to get into tsunami advisory mode. I personally would feel better if we were alerted sooner than later. But I am going to post this anonymously so according to the last mayor I am a bully and nothing gets done when you post anonymously so I expect nothing will come of this post.

Unknown said...

Thanks Ralph!

Anonymous said...

@ 3:32 pm
In Tofino we are actually to check the West Coast and Alaska Tsunami warning center site http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/ NOT the Pacific Tsunami warning center site ttp://ptwc.weather.gov/

The WCATWC covers Alaska and coastal regions in BC, Washington, Orego and California.....The PTWC provides warnings for teletsunamis to Hawaiʻi, Guam, American Samoa, Wake Island, Johnston Island, the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and all other U.S. interests in the Pacific

From the sites - NOAA's two Tsunami Warning Centers (PTWC and WC/ATWC) have separate areas of responsibility, which are the geographical areas within which each Center has the responsibility for the dissemination of messages and the provision of interpretive information to emergency managers and other officials, news media, and the public.

Anonymous said...

Should the one call system been used to notify. Most were sleeping when the advisory came out.