Institution
Auburn University
AuburnALPublic R1AU Alert~30,000 students
- Cases
- 22
- Alerts
- 41
- Verbatim
- 98%
- Span
- 2019–2026
Official alert policy
How Auburn says it will alert: when and how AU ALERT activates, summarized, quoted, and analyzed.
Case log
Every documented incident
22 cases · 40 of 41 alert messages verbatim-confirmed
2026
2025
- severe weather: 2025-11-25Tornado watch opens Greene Hall and RBD Library sheltersemergency notificationverbatim
- power outage: 2025-11-12Power outage across multiple campus areas with facilities restoring serviceemergency notificationverbatim
- gas leak: 2025-10-13Excavator strikes a main gas line, closing an adjacent street for the morningemergency notificationverbatim
- swatting: 2025-08-27Library evacuated after a false report of a dangerous person; linked to a swatting groupemergency notificationverbatim
- severe weather: 2025-05-03Late-spring severe thunderstorm watch covering campus and Lee Countyemergency notificationverbatim
- hazmat: 2025-04-29Gas leak off campus impacts Thach Ave commuteemergency notificationverbatim
- severe weather: 2025-04-06Lee County flash flood warning with multi-inch rainfall totalsemergency notificationverbatim
- severe weather: 2025-04-06Campus shelter locations open for weatheremergency notificationverbatim
- tornado: 2025-03-15Tornado warning with shelter guidance for the campus areaemergency notificationverbatim
- severe weather: 2025-03-15Severe weather case - shelters openemergency notificationverbatim
- tornado: 2025-02-16Tornado warning for northwest Lee County skips the main campusemergency notificationverbatim
- severe weather: 2025-02-12Lee County tornado watch with campus shelters openemergency notificationverbatim
2021
2020
By incident type