1. Preparing Texas Today... Governor’s Division of Emergency Management Texas Department of Public Safety...for Tomorrow’s Challenges State Operations Center (SOC) Communications & Warning Systems

2. OVER VIEW THE PRIMARY OBJECTIVE OF THE STATE WARNING SYSTEM IS TO DISSEMINATE TIMELY AND ACCURATE WARNING INFORMATION AND INSTRUCTIONS TO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS AND STATE AGENCIES DURING AN EMERGENCY SITUATION. WARNING INFORMATION IS RECEIVED FROM A VARIETY OF SOURCES. SOME ARE: FEDERAL, STATE OR LOCAL GOVERNMENTS / MEDIA / PRIVATE OR PUBLIC ORGANIZATIONS / VOLUNTEERS, ETC. THE STATE WARNING SYSTEM IS DESIGNED FOR RAPID DISSEMINATION OF WARNING INFORMATION AND GUIDANCE TO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS AND STATE AGENCIES.

3. WARNING SYSTEMS PARTIAL LIST NAWAS: National Warning System - 24hr / nationwide warning system provided by FEMA & NORAD TEWAS: Texas Warning System - State level extension of NAWAS. Comprised of : each Area Warning Center / National Weather Service forecast offices / and D.O.E.’s Amarillo Area Office. TEWAS is “voice only” TLETS: Texas Law Enforcement Teletype System - Statewide teletype network. Connects the State Warning Point with city, county, state, federal, military law enforcement, and Texas criminal justice agencies. TLETS is a “text hard copy” system. FNARS: FEMA National Radio System - Federal back-up system for NAWAS. Messages are received at SOC, which relays the appropriate information via TEWAS, TLETS, EAS and / or law enforcement radio communications. RACES: Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service -Volunteer amateur (HAM) radio operators. These operators use amateur HF radios for back-up communications from DPS headquarters in Austin to DPS Disaster Districts.

7. NOTE: HIGH PRIORITY in the header information field. When the message originator enters: ** WARNING ** : and their initials on the next line, the priority info is added, and the message is sent through the queue ahead of normal traffic. NOTE: This message was received late because a priority code was not included in the header info. Due to possible human error, TLETS should not be your only weather warning source. TLETS MESSAGES

8. EAS EAS consists of commercial broadcast, NOAA National Weather Service Weather Radio Network and cable media used to issue emergency information and warning notification to the general public. ºNational Coverage: National emergency messages, pursuant to plans established by FEMA, will come from the White House to Texas’ two Primary Entry Point (PEP) stations, KTRH Houston and WBAP Fort-Worth/Dallas. ºState Coverage: GDEM /SOC will disseminate any state emergency messages in a phone / fax message to the NWS and in phone calls to KTRH and WBAP. ºLocal Coverage: Local emergency messages will be sent out according to local EAS plans. Each local area should have a local emergency communications committee to include broadcasters, cable operators, and local government officials. ºNOTE: Local EAS activation will be the responsibility of the affected political jurisdiction, either city or county. However, if the threatened area includes several political subdivisions, or if insufficient time is available for local involvement, the DPS Warning Area Center may activate the EAS system simultaneously with, or immediately after, notification of the local Warning Points.

11. TEXAN Network WBAP2221 E. Lamar Arlington KTRH 510 Lovett Boulevard Houston KVLF 500 Hendrys Avenue Alpine KFRQ 801 N. Jackson Road McAllen KTDR307 E. 8th Street Del Rio KLAQ 4150 Pinnacle El Paso KRRG 902 E. Calton Road Laredo WOAI 6222 N.W. IH-10 San Antonio DEM/DPS/EOC 5805 N. Lamar Austin 56kbps PVC CBR Analog Voice Grade Line DS0 CES Port Legend Represents Analog Termination Equipment Bridge Texas State EAS Warning Plan

12. NWS COVERAGE AREA

13. NWS BROADCASTS ALERT ON NOAA WEATHER RADIO

15. Blackberries / PDAs

16. SOC COMMUNICATIONS NWS / INTERNET WEATHER LINKS / DTN TLETS (Texas Law Enforcement Teletype System) COMMUNICATIONS OPERATIONS / OPERATORS / RLO’S AMATEUR RADIO OPERATORS / RACES (DURING ACTIVATION) MARS / ARES / SAROS SATELLITE TV / Telephone / Weather Systems MEDIA (Cable TV) A/V CABINET (Monitors / Records / Routes Audio Visual information) FNARS / HF RADIO TELEPHONE LINK (DURING ACTIVATION) COMPUTERS / INTERNET / EMAIL TELEPHONES / PAGERS / FAX MACHINES VIDEO TELECONFERENCE SYSTEMS (VTC) PUBLIC: PHONED IN REPORTS

17. DPS Offices NWS Office FEMA Region 6 Office Other Locations Denton Fort Worth Richardson Temple Brownwood Fort Stockton Childress Vernon Paris Galveston Del Rio Uvalde Huntsville Kilgore Mount Pleasant Canyon Stephenville Commerce Overton Rosenberg Prarie View The Woodlands Edinburg Pharr Brownsville Kingsville Yoakum Victoria Austin El Paso Midland Lufkin Laredo Amarillo Wichita Falls Tyler San Angelo Hurst Conroe Waco Pierce Beaumont Lubbock Abilene Garland Bryan Houston McAll Corpus Christi San Antonio Texas Infrastructure Protection Communications Center (TIPCC) The Virtual Network

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26. SOC / GDEM Communication & Warning Systems Presenter: DEM Response Section Technical Operations Officer Phone: (512) 424-2208 E-Mail: soc@txdps.state.tx.us Website: http://www.txdps.state.TX. us ANY QUESTIONS

27. CONCLUSION