Yikes! That’s an interesting predicament. In Montana, we have a Missing Endangered Person Advisory (MEPA) at the state level which serves as a “catch all” for Silver/Ashanti/etc. We DO NOT utilize WEA for MEPAs but we do use WEA for AMBER and Blue Alerts. For dissemination, we leave it up to our AMBER Alert partners on whether or not they will share our MEPAs. Most of our partners choose not to share MEPAs (like the Lottery and Department of Transportation) but the Weather Service and the Montana Public Broadcasters Association are probably the largest distributors of the information in the event of a MEPA activation.
My personal opinion, we’re on track to have nearly 100 MEPA’s this year. I strongly believe if we were using WEA for these, alert fatigue would certainly be an issue. I believe, at the national level, Ashanti Alerts are not supposed to be utilizing WEA.