Because I've added the local weather app, I get weather warnings on my Cell Phone.
Plus we normally also get them on our local TV stations.

However, this is the first weather warning that I've ever seen interrupt a non local, cable TV broadcast. We normally don't even get Tornado Warnings when watching a non local TV stations. So getting this warning, while watching TCM, is strange.

The auto warning on my Cell Phone says SEVERE. Ditto the warning on our Weather Radio that also automatically turns on. So I trust that the gravity of the situation is real. The above cable TV warning went on with 6 pages of different counties covering a large part of Kansas and Missouri. I've never seen a 6 page weather alert before...

Meanwhile interestingly (and strange), there is not even a hint of a weather alert currently on any of our local TV stations. This is where I usually check to see exactly where the most dangerous weather is occurring.

I'm guessing that the above photo show a first run of a "real life" of warning resulting after the recent FEMA "test": https://www.fema.gov/emergency-alert-test . Since we don't get Tsunamis here (which were mentioned with the test on October 3rd), I was wondering how the new alert system would effect us. Guess this is how. To turn the alert off, you have to change channels... Otherwise, the alert just keeps going on and on and on. Going back to the original TV channel, the alert is gone & doesn't reappear. The local weather alerts on the Cell Phone and Weather Radio, however, do repeat as long as weather conditions are severe. I never got the above EAS alert on my Cell Phone - just the local weather alert that I normally would get. So I wonder if the "new" EAS really works as intended. Interestingly, after the EAS alert, the local emergency warning system that we've always had for severe weather ran a weekly "test" on the TV screen; without any mention of the current bad weather. That is a conflicting message... Most curious.

Along with the flash flood warnings, our local weather radio (which I do trust) keeps repeating their standard, "Turn around. Don't drown." We've had flash flooding all around our area for the past couple of days. Although tonight's TV Flash Flood Warning is not the first warning this week, it is the first EAS warning. After getting such an alert, will the city still be standing tomorrow??? Or are we now suddenly getting EAS warnings because the President had a big rally near Kansas City on Saturday & this may be a demonstration for the good folks of Kansas & Missouri to show off how his new supposedly "presidential" alert system??? We live in crazy times for me to now question FEMA... I saw the alert as something positive, but yet not yet quite in tune with really keeping people fully informed.

After extremely heavy rains overnight last night, it rained all day today. Right now, it's raining harder than ever; with 5 inches of new rain predicted in just 16 hours. So things aren't good. However, we'll see what morning brings. The Metro has long been known for it's flash floods and resulting damage; plus even loss of life from the floods.