Some residents of South Texas were sent a false alert on Tuesday morning saying that the National Weather Service had issued a tsunami warning for Texas.
According to the Texas Tribune, the alert was sent on Tuesday morning around 7:30am to residents near Texas' gulf coast. The warning told residents that a tsunami was headed for residents living on the coast. The National Weather Service later released a statement saying that no tsunami warning had been issued for the United States.
It is unclear how many residents received the alert. Both Accuweather (an app that sent the alert to residents) and the National Weather Service have claimed to have no part in the sending of the alert.
Officials told the Houston Chronicle that faulty computer coding was to blame for the alert's publication.
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