Case Study: Hancock County, Indiana achieves real-time targeted severe-weather alerts and faster emergency communication with Rave Mobile Safety

Hancock County Ensures Community Safety During Severe Weather Through Rave Platform

Indiana Hancock County, Indiana (population ~80,000) faces year‑round severe weather—tornadoes, thunderstorms, flooding, snow and ice—and needed a fast, targeted way to warn residents and coordinate among 9‑1‑1, schools and multiple public safety agencies. To meet that challenge the county adopted Rave Mobile Safety’s critical communication solution (including the Rave Panic Button app) to provide a single launch point for emergency and nonemergency alerts.

Rave Mobile Safety tied alerts to the National Weather Service and enabled multi‑channel, opt‑in messaging (text, email, voice, social, IPAWS, digital signage and desktop) that any dispatcher can send in about a minute. The platform produced measurable reach and faster response: about 4,000 residents receive tornado alerts, 3,400 receive blizzard alerts and 2,800 receive heat advisories, automatic NWS tornado warnings and social posts to a Facebook audience of ~11,000—helping keep the community informed and improving coordination across the county’s 25 dispatchers and 20 agencies.

Indiana Hancock County

John Jokantas

Director