Warning Station

noun

A structure that watches a dangerous area — like a volcano or a flood zone — and sends signals to warn the people nearby when something is going wrong. Warning stations take readings from sensors and pass them on fast, so villages and towns have time to get ready.

Civil & Structural Engineering — Monty Communications Engineering — Lina
Go Deeper For parents & teachers
In BFOE, the team's term for a monitoring-and-alert installation sited near a hazard. The real-world equivalent is an early warning system: a combination of sensors, communications links, and decision rules designed to detect a developing event early and deliver an actionable alert to the people at risk. Well-known examples include the Japan Meteorological Agency's earthquake early warning, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, and the Icelandic Met Office's volcano monitoring network.

Appears In

The Burning Mountain Chapter 4 — The Warning Station

"A warning station was not just a table and a lot of worrying. It needed …"

The Burning Mountain Chapter 4 — The Warning Station

"… safe. Then he said the thing neither of them wanted, because the warning station had just done its job too well to ignore."

The Burning Mountain Chapter 4 — The Warning Station

"The words hung in the warning station like fresh ash."

The Burning Mountain Chapter 4 — The Warning Station

"By late afternoon the warning station stood ready enough to matter."

The Burning Mountain Chapter 4 — The Warning Station

"… where it was known to where it was needed. Without him, the warning station was a clever room that could not speak."

The Burning Mountain Chapter 5 — The Hidden Road of Fire

"Monty stayed at the warning station past midnight. He traced the hidden route again. Family cart on the …"

The Burning Mountain Chapter 5 — The Hidden Road of Fire

"By evening, no one at the warning station trusted the valley floor."

The Burning Mountain Chapter 7 — The Bear in the Smoke

"The restored northern data flooded the warning station all at once - plume spread, heat patterns, pressure shifts, gas readings. …"

The Burning Mountain Chapter 11 — The Lake That Boiled

"… relay units blinked from the slope below, feeding data back to the warning station. A drone buzzed over the basin rim - one of Sparky's, fitted …"

The Burning Mountain Chapter 14 — The Burning Mountain Breaks Open

"… The way they had been working since the first night at the warning station, when he had not sent her away, and she had not wanted …"

See Also

Antenna Evacuation Hazard Relay Sensor Signal