Institution
Auburn University
AuburnALPublic R1AU AlertRave~33,000 students
- Cases
- 10
- Alerts
- 18
- Verbatim
- 22%
- Span
- 1996–2025
Official alert policy
How Auburn says it will alert — when and how AU ALERT activates, summarized, quoted, and analyzed.
Case log
Every documented incident
10 cases · 4 of 18 alert messages verbatim-confirmed
2025
- police activity: 2025-11-06Twenty-Three Minutes, Three Accidental Alerts: AU Alert Sends a Tornado, a HazMat, and an Active Shooter in the Same Hourtestverbatim
- gas leak: 2025-10-13An Excavator Hit a Main Gas Line Near the Gogue Performing Arts Center, Closing South College Street at Auburn Universityemergency notificationverbatim
- swatting: 2025-08-27Draughon Library Evacuated: Auburn Becomes Latest Purgatory Target as Alert System Under Scrutinyemergency notificationverbatim
- bomb threat: 2025-06-11Bomb Threat to Auburn's Airport Doesn't Trigger an AU Alert: A Lesson in the Geographic Limits of Clery Notificationsadvisory
- tornado: 2025-03-15PDS Tornado Watch Across the Plains: Auburn's Saturday Severe-Weather Sirens Marked the Eastern Edge of a Multi-Day Outbreakemergency notification
By incident type