North Wildwood to Provide Automated Severe Weather Warnings to Residents

NORTH WILDWOOD – Following an extensive and thorough evaluation and review of weather alerting systems, the City of North Wildwood has implemented the CodeRED Weather Warning system, an automated weather warning technology that delivers phone calls, text messages and emails to registered residents and businesses within the direct path of severe weather.
The CodeRED Weather Warning system will serve as the backbone of the City’s emergency planning and communications outreach to both residents and City personnel by using the system capabilities to automatically deliver critical weather alerts to those within the projected path of a tornado, severe thunderstorm or flash flood. The system, which was released in 2007, uses advanced polygon methodology and proprietary message delivery to ensure all notifications are delivered to those within the direct path of the storm.
“We have heard from other communities using this technology that residents are regularly notified of severe weather before they hear about the storm on the TV, radio or anywhere else. The speed of the message delivery is critical for this type of warning technology, and we selected this service because of its unrivaled experience delivering targeted messages,” said Mayor Patrick Rosenello.
All residents living within North Wildwood’s City limits are encouraged to visit our emergency preparedness website at http://ready.northwildwood.com and click on the CodeRED link to enroll to receive weather warnings. Weather notifications can be delivered by phone calls, text messages or emails, or a combination of the three. Additionally, the CodeRED enrollment page gives residents the opportunity to select which types of severe weather warnings they would like to receive. Residents are reminded that only warnings that impact their exact address will be notified because of advanced technology used to reduce false alarm.
CBS Evening News, among other news outlets and public safety agencies across the country have credited CodeRED Weather Warning notifications for potentially saving lives by delivering notifications well ahead of the storm to those impacted.