Hurricane Preparedness

• Sign up for the Alert Pinellas emergency notification service
  Receive emergency alerts via text message on your cell phone
• Sign up for E-lert
  Receive a monthly electronic newsletter about hurricane safety and receive emergency alerts via e-mail
• WATCH PCC-TV
  Videos and live coverage of the Emergency Operations Center
• Speakers & Presentations
  Request a Pinellas County speaker to make a hurricane presentation to your group or employer
• Weather Alert Radio Save Lives
  Just like a smoke alarm, this radio can save your life. Weather alert radios can be found at many retailers, in catalogs and online.

Sign up for the Alert Pinellas, an emergency notification service. It is FREE to our residents and will give us multiple ways to get the word to you whenever an urgent situation arises. All you have to do is register your contact information with Alert Pinellas and an automated message will be sent to alert you to local emergencies.

• Your contact information will remain protected and confidential.
• Subscribers will receive a notification on each contact method they provide to us.
• Each member of your household that would like to receive emergency notifications can register with this FREE service.
• An automated system will call land lines and cell phones at the same time an e-mail and text message will go out, so you could receive four notifications.
• The Alert Pinellas network allows us to send out alerts to the County as a whole or to specific smaller geographic areas.
• It’s easy to sign up for this FREE service, sign up here!
• This is a secure website so your information is protected! If the Internet is not available, you can call (866) 484-3264 to sign up.
• This emergency notification service is provided to the residents of Pinellas by Pinellas County’s Emergency Management Department to provide information in the event of an emergency situation.

Please Note: Due to a change to emergency notification service, residents must re-register.

Hurricane & Safety News E-Lert -

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Watch PCC-TV Hurricane Videos

Pinellas County Connection TV (PCC-TV) produces emergency preparedness educational and informational programs that are available through steaming video 24-hours a day on the PCC-TV webpage. See hurricane video page.

During an activation of the Emergency Operations Center, PCC-TV will air live coverage of all press briefings. Watch PCC-TV live and provide timely updates.

Speakers & Presentations

Pinellas County has expert speakers who make presentations by request to community groups, schools, employers and events. Available presentations.

Severe weather can often strike quickly, even during the very early morning hours. An alarm from a weather alert radio can mean the difference between life and death because every minute counts. Pinellas County Emergency Management staff strongly urges residents to buy a weather alert radio. Weather alert radios can be found at many retailers, in catalogs and online.