Automatic EMail Alerts

Email Alerts are a feature in the system which will automatically send and “alert” type Email when certain “conditions” or triggers are met. The Email alerts are processed whenever new storm data is received or if manually started by the user. In addition to the alert text, you can also specify to include a tracking map and the advisories with the alert. There are 6 types of Automated Email Alerts.

ALL UPDATES Alert:

The All Updates alert is the only alert which does not have a trigger. This type of alert allows the user to send out information about a storm every time new storm data is received.

NEW STORM Alert:

The New Storm alert is exactly what it sounds like. An alert email will be sent whenever a new storm forms.

CATEGORY CHANGE Alert:

The Category Change alert is triggered whenever an existing storm change its storm strength category (Saffir-Simpson Scale).

LOCATION Alert:

The Location Alert is a special alert that is triggered whenever a storm’s forecasted conditions, for a location or group of locations are met. The triggers include, wind speed, timing of wind speed, rainfall, wind probabilities and distance from the location to the center of the storm. This is a very powerful (and the original) alert.

LOCATION GROUP Alert:

The location group alert is triggered whenever ANY location within a location group is expected to be impacted by a storm. This was added when a customer said “what I really need is to have an email automatically sent to me when ever any of my 5000 locations are expected to bit hit”.

GEOGRAPHICAL Alert:

The Geographical Alert is triggered whenever a storm is in or expected to enter a defined geographical area.

More information on how to setup EMail Alerts

Examples of each Alert are shown below:

All Updates Alert (this example shows optional user text)

New Storm Alert (example is for Western Pacific storm)

Category Change Alert (SW Pacific Storm in example)

Location Alert (image included with this example)

Location Group Alert (the name of the location group is called usergroup in this example)

Geographical Alert