The Grays Habor County Emergency Management Office said in a press release on Thursday, February 20th that they are changing providers for their local emergency alert system and with this change users who want to remain getting alerts from them must sign up again even if they were signed up before.  

These alerts are alerts send out from the County, different from the alerts and such posted by Grays Habor Scanner (us).

Grays Harbor County Emergency Management has changed public alerting systems. Citizens whom have previously signed up for notifications from Grays Harbor County Emergency Management will need to sign up for the new system in order to receive alerts via email, voice call and/ or text.

The new system is called Rave Alert/ Smart911. Benefits of this particular program includes targeted location-based alerts and important National Weather Service notifications to residents. Critical weather-related information, such as high winds, high surf advisories, flooding or tsunami warnings would be transmitted to citizens registered with Rave Alert/ Smart911.

Rave Alert/ Smart911 also allows Emergency Management to isolate a geographic area in the county for specific notifications, which could include local evacuations, boil water notices, shelter-in-place instructions or other emergencies impacting a specific area of Grays Harbor.

Please take a few moments to sign up for Rave Alert/ Smart911. Registering in this new system is also a great time to update your current information, email address and phone number.

The link to register for Rave Alert/ Smart911 is: https://www.smart911.com/smart911/ref/reg.action?pa=graysharbor

If you have any questions or need assistance in registering for Rave Alert/ Smart911, please contact Carmin or Hannah at Grays Harbor Emergency Management at 360-249-3911 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..