The National Weather Service’s Tsunami Warning Center performed a scheduled test of their emergency notification system on March 24th, activating a practice alert that remained in effect for exactly one hour.
The test warning began at 12:31 PM Eastern Daylight Time and concluded at 1:31 PM EDT on the same day. These routine exercises help ensure the tsunami alert infrastructure functions properly when real emergencies occur.
Such testing procedures are conducted periodically to verify that warning systems can effectively reach the public and emergency management officials during actual tsunami threats.
