Regional Notification System
Nearly 45,000 people across Central Texas have signed up for the Capital Area Council of Governments regional notification system (RNS), WarnCentralTexas.org, a crucial public-safety tool launched with funding from the Homeland Security Grant Program and participating local governments.
Discover the RNS
RNS is a Web-based tool 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.
It's a cinch to get applicable RNS alerts by voice, email, SMS text, alpha pagers and numeric pagers for emergencies and non-emergencies near your home, business or other locations in Bastrop, Blanco, Burnet, Caldwell, Fayette, Hays, Lee, Llano, Travis and Williamson counties.
The 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 cellphone numbers and email addresses to receive notifications on their mobile devices or computers.
> Register today or update your information.
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.
Participate in public outreach
About 45,000 residents have signed up to receive warnings and notifications from WarnCentralTexas.org. CAPCOG and its regional partners have developed materials to help promote and increase self-registration that any community or person is welcome to use. CAPCOG and it is regional partners will continually update its public outreach materials, so check back often.
> Find public outreach materials.
