National Warning System tests

The Ministry of Civil Defence & Emergency Management (MCDEM) will be conducting a series of tests of the new National Warning System platform from Tuesday 13 June 2017 (these dates are conditional on there being no activations of the National Crisis Management Centre before these dates).

We are conducting these tests to make sure that the contacts on each National Warning System distribution list can receive messages across the different channels available to each distribution list (eg. email, SMS and/or automated voice alert).

A test message will be sent to each of the National Warning System distribution lists from Tuesday over the course of the week.

You may be on multiple distribution lists and may receive multiple test messages over multiple days (each test message will be clearly labelled with the distribution list name).

Please reply to all of the test messages that you receive. Each test message will ask you to provide a reply within thirty minutes of receipt of the test message.

Subsequent testing will be considered based on these initial tests.

The table below shows the current contact information that the current National Warning System uses and the new details that will be used from 13 June 2017. Please make sure your organisation follows whatever procedure is required to ensure you can receive National Warning System messages.

noreply@service.whispir.co.nz

nws.robot.whispir.nz@service.whispir.co.nz

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