Institution
James Madison University
JMUVAPublic R2JMU Alerts / Bridgeforth Stadium PA~22,000 students
- Cases
- 7
- Alerts
- 13
- Verbatim
- 23%
- Span
- 2024–2026
Official alert policy
How JMU says it will alert — when and how Madison Alert activates, summarized, quoted, and analyzed.
Case log
Every documented incident
7 cases · 3 of 13 alert messages verbatim-confirmed
2026
- severe storm: 2026-04-25Five Plays and Out: Thunderstorms Cancel JMU's First Spring Game Under Billy Napieradvisory
- police activity: 2026-03-13JMU's Negative-Space Advisory: How a Spared Campus Tells 22,000 Students About a Bomb-Threat Wave Across Virginiaadvisory
- threat of violence: 2026-02-22Anonymous App Threats Against JMU: Police Add Patrols, Threats Found 'Unsubstantiated' But Anxiety Lingersadvisory
2024
- infrastructure failure: 2024-12-05A Burst Water Line Leaves East Campus Dorms Without Heat in Decemberadvisory
- gas leak: 2024-11-04A Smell, Two Evacuated Buildings, and 50 Minutes Later: No Gas Leak After Allemergency notificationverbatim
- flooding: 2024-05-06Finals Week Underwater: When Flash Floods Turned a Virginia Campus Into a TikTok-Famous Swimming Poolemergency notification
By incident type