Warn
Central Texas

What is Warn Central Texas?

CAPCOG uses a regional notification system (RNS), WarnCentralTexas.org, as a crucial public-safety tool for local governments to warn and inform residents about natural and man-made disasters happening in their own neighborhood. The tool allows government to send text message, phone calls or emails to those in the system. It is effective for notifying a large number of people in a particular location in a short period of time.

CAPCOG uses the region’s 9-1-1 phone database so all local governments can contact landline and Voice Over Internet Protocol phone numbers when an emergency occurs; however, residents have to voluntarily subscribe to the service to receive messages via text, cellphone call or email.

Sign up for local alerts at WarnCentralTexas.org.

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, which could a single street, a neighbor, or an entire county; develops the message and determines which types of devices receive the message.

Public Outreach

Preparedness Month

September is National Preparedness Month. CAPCOG conducts a social media campaign every year for Preparedness Month.

As part of the campaign it send daily public safety tips that will help people be better prepared from all types of emergency situations.

Get the list and share a tip.

More social media items to come.

WarnCentralTexas.org

Emergency Management Coordinators and local government official throughout the 10-county region want every resident to register their mobile devices at WarnCentralTexas.org, so they can stay informed during disasters and other emergency situations. Below are some tools communities can use to easily help residents learn about WarnCentralTexas.org and encourage registration.

WarnCentralTexas.org uses one of two taglines, which are Twitter and Facebook friendly, to help promote its message and encourage registration. When using them on Twitter, there is enough characters to place the url, warncentraltexas.org, or the has tag #warncentraltexas, in a tweet. To promote self-registrations, the url is preferred. The taglines are:

Stay informed — Register to get emergency warnings in your neighborhood by text, email or phone.

Protect your family, property and self. Sign up for emergency warnings in your neighborhood by voice, text or email.

In Spanish:

Manténgase informado ­­— Inscríbase para avisos de emergencia en su vecindario por voz, texto o correo electrónico.

Proteja a su familia, su propiedad y a sí mismo. Regístrese para recibir avisos de emergencia en su vecindario por voz, texto o correo electrónico.

WarnCentralTexas.org Logos

Round Logo.png,  Round Logo.jpg,  Need the vector file, contact Mason W. Canales.

.png,  708 px by 101 px .jpg,  350 px by 50 px .jpg,  200 px by 29 px .jpg,  Need the vector file, contact Mason W. Canales.

Videos

CAPCOG and Texas State University developed the following videos so local jurisdictions and the public can promote WarnCentralTexas.org via traditional and social media. They were developed to also serve as 6-second and 30-second advertisements.

Download the 30-second English version.
Downloads are available in the wide screen and square format. Facebook and some other social media platforms prefer square format.

Download the 6-second English version.
Downloads are available in the wide screen and square format. Facebook and some other social media platforms prefer square format.

Download the 30-second Spanish version.
Downloads are available in the wide screen and square format. Facebook and some other social media platforms prefer square format.

Download the 6-second Spanish version.
Downloads are available in the wide screen and square format. Facebook and some other social media platforms prefer square format.

Print Materials

Warn Central Texas rack cards with images in Spanish and English
.pdf (print ready), .jpg English, .jpg Spanish, .png English, .png Spanish

Warn Central Texas rack cards with icons in Spanish and English
.pdf (print ready), .jpg English, .jpg Spanish, .png English, .png Spanish

Warn Central Texas stickers print ready .pdf

Warn Central Texas post card
.pdf, .docx

Warn Central Texas Buckslip in English
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Warn Central Texas Buckslip in Spanish
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Social Media Images and Messages

Warn Central Texas Social Media are worked up throughout the year. Below are few sample that can be downloaded. When CAPCOG does a campaign promoting self-registrations to the regional notification system, those campaigns will also be posted here. All photos are in .png format.

WarnCentralTexas.org Austin flooding images in English and Spanish.

WarnCentralTexas.org San Gabriel River flooding images in English and Spanish.

WarnCentralTexas.org wildfire image in English.

These materials were made available so communities in the CAPCOG region can make their own promotional items. Jurisdictions also can request any original design files presented above. If you have created any marketing materials to promote WarnCentralTexas.org and want to share them, contact Mason W. Canales, CAPCOG member services coordinator.