Code Red weather alerts available

County Emergency Management Coordinator Bill Gordon advises that Hot Springs County Code Red has a new capability called Code Red Weather Alert. This addition to the County Code Red program will allow subscribers to get accurate location information on Weather Warnings issued by Riverton NWS for severe thunderstorms, tornadoes, flash flooding and winter storms.

The many app based services too often send vague warning messages to the entire county when only a specific area is threatened. Code Red Weather Alert delivers voice calls, text messages and emails to subscribed users within the direct path of the storm.

NWS Riverton creates a polygon on their radar of the expected path of a storm. Weather Alert interprets that information and creates a calling database of Code Red Weather Warning Subscribers.

To get signed up, go to hscounty.com and resign up for Code Red. As you subscribe you will now be given choices of the NWS warnings you wish to receive.

Then add these numbers to your phone contacts: 866-419-5000 for HSC Code Red Emergency Messages and 800-566-9780 for HSC Weather Alert Messages. These are the only numbers from which you will receive HSC Code Red messages.

Gordon said, “If you have any problems registering, call my office at 864-4649, leave a message and I will call you back and get you signed up for the new Code Red services.”

Gordon added, “This new technology will tell you immediately whether you are in harm’s way.”