warning system
Hazard notification method
A warning system is an organized method for detecting danger and alerting people to take protective action.
Early warning systems monitor threats like severe weather, tsunamis, or missile attacks: The tsunami warning system gave coastal residents time to evacuate.
The term extends to any mechanism that signals trouble ahead: Her intuition served as an internal warning system.
- alarmUrgent warning signal
- sirenWailing alert device
- tornado sirenEmergency weather warning device
- alertWarning or watchfulness
- red alertTop emergency warning state
amber alert · smoke detector · detector · radar · sensor · beacon · monitor · emergency · air raid · signal · evacuation · smoke · fire · threat · danger · civil defense · surveillance · early
- practical measuresbackup plan, checkpoint, drill, emergency plan, evacuation
- seismologyearthquake, earthquakes, seismograph, seismicity, seismometer
- space safetycrew safety, life support, space suit, spacesuit, spacesuits
- emergency preparednessemergency kit, evacuation plan, emergency plan, emergency alerts, emergency supplies
- emergency responsefirst responders, emergency services, fire alarm, 911, call 911
- public safetypolice, 911, ambulance, fire department, firefighters
warning systememergency response
Organized action during crises
damage control · disaster response · remedy · disaster recovery · crisis response
warning systemcover-up
Hiding wrongdoing from public
information blackout · concealment · censorship · obfuscation
warning, system, warn, warns, warned, warnings, systems, systematic, systematically