Campus Alert Archive

Institution

Florida State University

FSUFLPublic R1FSU Alert~45,000 students

Cases: 11
Alerts: 28
Verbatim: 21%
Span: 1978–2025

Official alert policy

How FSU says it will alert — when and how FSU ALERT activates, summarized, quoted, and analyzed.

Case log

Every documented incident

11 cases · 6 of 28 alert messages verbatim-confirmed

2025

severe storm: 2025-09-20Florida Logged 263 Hours of Lightning Warnings in 2025. The Seminoles Got One of Them at 4:53 PM.emergency notification
active shooter: 2025-04-17ChatGPT-Assisted Attack: FSU Student Opens Fire in Student Union During Lunchtime Rush, Killing Twoemergency notification2 killed · 6 injuredverbatim

2024

2022

2018

shooting: 2018-11-02An FSU Senior Killed in the Tallahassee Hot Yoga Shooting — A Campus Vigil, an Advisory Message, and the Limits of Off-Campus Alertsadvisory2 killed · 4 injured

2017

hurricane: 2017-09-07Closed Through September 15: FSU's Week-Long Hurricane Irma Shutdown Across All Campusesemergency notification

2016

gas leak: 2016-03-28A Slowly Leaking Ethylene Cylinder Clears a Research Buildingemergency notification

2014

active shooter: 2014-11-20'Dangerous Situation' at Midnight: Four Alerts Over Three Hours While 500 Students Hid in a Libraryemergency notification3 injuredverbatim

1978

assault: 1978-01-15Three Minutes at Chi Omega: The Tallahassee Sorority Attacks That Defined Ted Bundyadvisory2 killed · 3 injured

By incident type

What FSU has alerted about

Weather · 4 Active Shooter · 3 assault · 1 Bomb Threat · 1 Hazmat / Gas · 1 Property Crime · 1

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