Elevated Wildfire Risk Today 10/16/2024: Elevated to near critical fire weather conditions are expected in the wake of a dry cold front over South Central Texas today, higher winds and wind gusts will accompany the front. Many Counties are under a burn ban and TCEQ regulations prohibit outdoor burning on days with high winds. Avoid spark generating activities, welding, dragging trailer chains, tossing lit cigarettes outdoors.
BE PREPARED
STAY INFORMED
by Text, Email or Phone.
The Capital Area Council of Governments and its partners are pleased to offer an emergency notification system to residents of Central Texas. Registering with WarnCentralTexas allows local officials to contact their communities by phone, email and text during times of disasters or public safety events.
LOCAL
COMMUNITIES
Select a county below to view emergency information relative to your location.
HOW IT
WORKS
Register NOW to receive emergency notifications from your local emergency response team. Be among the first to receive critical community alerts regarding natural disasters, weather warnings, evacuation notices, bio-terrorism alerts, boil water notices, and missing child reports.
STEP ONE
REGISTER
To get started, click the Get Alerts button below. Depending on your preferred delivery, register your cell phone number and/or email address.
STEP TWO
CUSTOMIZE ALERTS
Choose to set up specific, custom alerts for multiple addresses, cell phone numbers, and/or email addresses.
DELIVERY METHODS
STEP THREE
STAY INFORMED
Monitor alerts via your preferred delivery method(s) in the registration process to better protect your family, property, and yourself!
ABOUT
WARN CENTRAL TEXAS
The Capital Area Council of Governments uses a regional notification system (RNS) called Everbridge as a crucial public-safety tool. The web-based tool is available to users throughout the CAPCOG region to alert the public to emergency and non-emergency situations. It’s an effective tool for notifying a relatively large number of people in a short period of time.
Messages may include content such as incident-specific information, recommended protective actions or response directives. They can be delivered to various devices that accept voice, email or SMS text content and to alpha or numeric pagers.
The message sender identifies recipients, develops the message and determines which types of devices receive the message. Regional partners that use RNS can send voice messages to landline phones using CAPCOG’s 9-1-1 database. However, residents and visitors to the CAPCOG region must register their cell phone numbers and email addresses to receive notifications on mobile devices or computers.
In addition to alerts sent by local jurisdictions, residents may choose to receive automated warnings — tornado, severe thunderstorm or flash flood, for example — from the National Weather Service.
CAPCOG COUNTY
PARTNERS
WarnCentralTexas.org serves as a public portal for residents to register for our Regional Notification System (RNS) and learn about other ways their local communities distribute information in times of emergencies. WarnCentralTexas.org also is being developed as a regional preparedness resource so residents in the ten-county CAPCOG region can find useful information about how they can prepare themselves for emergencies and disasters.
The Capital Area Council of Governments and its partners are pleased to offer an emergency notification system to residents of Central Texas. Registering at WarnCentralTexas.org allows local officials to contact their communities by phone, email and text during times of disasters or public safety events.
Messages sent through the RNS are generated by the local jurisdictions participating in this program. CAPCOG does not send messages to residents.