As part of a larger crisis response project, Google Maps has today launched a Public Alerts Web page, showing the locations of weather, earthquakes, floods and other location-specific incidents. For example, today’s map shows flooding in northern Indiana and severe thunderstorm warning in Louisiana. In a blog posting, Public Alerts engineer Steve Hakusa says, “We’re learning as we go.” He does not say how quickly information from various federal government sources will be posted on the maps. A question-and-answer page says Google will expand the range of alert sources over time, including state and private sources. Google already provides a Common Alerting Protocol-based service to which local public safety agencies can subscribe, and transmit emergency or urgent information. View the Public Alerts map page.
This is the main map of Google Public Alerts. You can zoom in and see details of any specific incident.
This is a zoomed-in view of a Google Public Alerts entry. Hover the cursor over the shaded area to see details of the incident.
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Only problem is clicking all the pages until you get to see if your state and or are is under an alert.
I can get the same info from NOAA.gov using just my zip code.
Plus being part of SkyWarn, I have alerts e-mailed to me for areas of my choosing.
I believe they intend you to find alerts geographically, not by list. You can also zoom in to any smaller area of the world, and the list on the left will change to reflect only those alerts that are within the map window. Lastly, you can also link to your current view (a continental view or just one county) by clicking on the link icon in the upper-right of the window.
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