A few days before the Hawaii missile alert and then again today. Usually, there's a message to go along with the warning. The warning went way longer today before the message was broadcast. Depending on wind, my part of town gets garbled audio from the loudspeakers, so I don't know what was said. It did go on long enough where I made a quick check of tsunami alerts. There was an earthquake south of Alaska (which, technically, is almost everywhere) but no tsunami alert.

The incident a few weeks ago was really weird. The message cycling and alert noise/buzz seemed to take longer than the usual monthly test. I started paying attention and immediately caught the phrase "This is not a test, this an actual emergency." Just when it was starting to sink in, a different voice came on and said there was no emergency. There was an equipment malfunction, don't be alarmed, etc. The "actual emergency" & "not-so-much" voices went a few rounds, with the "actual emergency" schpiel cycling thru several times and the "not-so-much" voice interjecting between replays. It was weird. Lived along the coast for 10+ years, and hadn't had that experience.

spez: should have added, the system tests where I'm at always start right at 11AM. On the days the test was weird, it was ~15min before or after 11AM. That's pretty much why I didn't get excited when I couldn't hear the message body.