Mobile County Weather Warnings

By Jene' Young Meteorologist

If you live in Mobile County, and have a listed number, local emergency officials have you on their call list. Mobile County Weather Warnings

Published: Wed, January 09, 2008 - 5:28 pm Last Updated: Wed, January 09, 2008 - 5:54 pm

Jene' Young

Two weeks ago, Mobile County Emergency Management Agency initiated their new call back program called Connect C-T-Y.
Mobile County residents heard a recorded message with information for a tornado watch.

Connect C-T-Y list includes all Mobile County residents with a listed home phone number.

Mike Evans, Director of Plans and Operations with the MCEMA says, "We intend to use it during a tornado warning, we would use it in a haz-mat situation. And there might even be some use during hurricane season. You know obviously Pre-hurricane, sending out messages to people in evacuation areas or potential flood zones."

Communications Officer David Roberts says calling all residents is not a simple task.
"To call all of mobile county, I think we can do it in under an hour. But again that's 400,000 people, that's a lot of phone calls."
Roberts says there is one tool for weather information that everyone should have. "We really do encourage people to use a NOAA Weather Radio for weather events."

Connect C-T-Y is also capable of fine tuning the calling areas. "We can go by zip code, we can call up a map of Mobile County and select a specific area, either by circle or generated polygon. We can call only those phone numbers in that selected area."

So if you get a recorded phone call from the EMA, don't hang up, because the message could save your life.
For more information on how you can sign up for the free service, check out the Mobile County EMA's website.