{
  "id": "2026-06-12-wheaton-college-tornado-warning-disregard",
  "slug": "wheaton-college-tornado-warning-disregard-2026-06-12",
  "institution": {
    "name": "Wheaton College",
    "shortName": "Wheaton",
    "state": "MA",
    "type": "private-liberal-arts",
    "alertSystemName": "WC-Emergency Alerts",
    "enrollment": 1700
  },
  "incident": {
    "date": "2026-06-12",
    "type": "tornado",
    "cleryCategory": "emergency-notification",
    "resolution": "resolved",
    "headline": "Disregard notice for a tornado warning issued same day",
    "headlinePublic": "Disregard notice for a tornado warning issued same day",
    "summary": "Wheaton College [issued a public safety product telling the community to disregard a tornado warning on June 12, 2026](https://www.getrave.com/rss/wheaton/channel1).",
    "outcome": "Tornado warning product cancelled/disregarded for campus; no further retained feed items."
  },
  "alerts": [
    {
      "sequence": 1,
      "type": "all-clear",
      "timestamp": "2026-06-12T11:35:02-04:00",
      "channel": "sms",
      "verbatimText": "DISREGARD TORNADO WARNING ON 6/12/26",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": true,
      "confidence": "high",
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.getrave.com/rss/wheaton/channel1",
      "sourceDescription": "WC-Emergency Alerts Rave RSS (wheaton/channel1)",
      "annotations": [
        "Dual independent Rave RSS fetch 2026-08-10. SPN 523.",
        "pubDate 2026-06-12T15:35:02Z; EDT applied (June). Source title misspells DISGREGARD; body uses DISREGARD - body is the transmitted product.",
        "Thread checked N/A (RSS single product). Initial tornado-warning product not retained in feed at capture.",
        "First-message queue 2026-08-16: first preserved Rave product is the DISREGARD all-clear. Initial tornado-warning product is not in the live feed. Type kept all-clear; no initial invented.",
        "Distinct incident from 2024-02-13-wheaton-college-ma-snow-day-remote-virtual and 2020-02-05-wheaton-college-ma-ax-wielding-student-lockdown."
      ],
      "characterCount": 36
    }
  ],
  "context": "Wheaton College (Massachusetts) publishes WC-Emergency Alerts via Rave; public feed at [getrave.com/rss/wheaton/channel1](https://www.getrave.com/rss/wheaton/channel1).",
  "keyFindings": [
    "Ultra-short disregard/all-clear product cancelling a same-day tornado warning."
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "WC-Emergency Alerts Rave RSS tornado disregard",
      "url": "https://www.getrave.com/rss/wheaton/channel1",
      "type": "official-archive",
      "accessDate": "2026-08-10",
      "archiveUrl": null,
      "archiveNotes": "SPN 523 at capture; archive.org save endpoint unavailable or throttled"
    }
  ],
  "confidence": "high",
  "tags": [
    "private-liberal-arts",
    "massachusetts",
    "wheaton",
    "tornado",
    "all-clear"
  ],
  "dateAdded": "2026-08-10",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-08-16",
  "addedBy": "ingestion"
}