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Use the Alerts module to create and manage alerts. Alerts can be organized into station or location based groups. They can also be organized based on types of alerts such as flooding or meteorological. Alert data is often acquired through an automated feed but can be entered manually as well.

Alerts are similar to stories in that they have a header and a detailed text field. All the other fields are also included like Airs, On Air Time, Expiry Time and dynamic fields. For example, here's an example of an alert coming from the US National Weather Service feed:

Instead of using story topics, alerts are organized into Groups but essentially, they are the same type of container.

BLADE for Alerts

Alerts can also be accessed through BLADE. See the topic BLADE - Alerts for details.

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