Tsunami? No. Mistakenly sent message just a test, forecasters say
A mistake during a training exercise caused a message to go out to television stations this afternoon that a tsunami warning was being issued.
Ryan Sandler, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service office in Medford, said there was an in-house training exercise for issuing emergency weather warnings. Someone neglected to push the buttons that prevent the emergency message from going out to television stations.
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http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090804/NEWS07/908049996
It was a test- see this ^
They could have started a real panic.