Institution
Auburn University
AuburnALPublic R1AU Alert~30,000 students
- Cases
- 12
- Alerts
- 24
- Verbatim
- 83%
- 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
12 cases · 20 of 24 alert messages verbatim-confirmed
2026
2025
- severe weather: 2025-11-25Tornado watch opens Greene Hall and RBD Library sheltersemergency notificationverbatim
- police activity: 2025-11-06Tornado, hazmat, and active-shooter alerts sent in error within twenty-three minutestestverbatim
- 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
- hazmat: 2025-04-29Gas leak off campus impacts Thach Ave commuteemergency notificationverbatim
- severe weather: 2025-04-06Campus shelter locations open for weatheremergency notificationverbatim
- tornado: 2025-03-15Tornado warning, March 15, 2025emergency notificationverbatim
- severe weather: 2025-03-15Tornado watch with campus shelters open Mar 15 2025emergency notificationverbatim
By incident type