Campus Alert Archive

Institution

Purdue University

PurdueINPublic R1Purdue ALERT~53,000 students

Cases: 7
Alerts: 15
Verbatim: 7%
Span: 2012–2025

Official alert policy

How Purdue says it will alert — when and how PurdueALERT activates, summarized, quoted, and analyzed.

Case log

Every documented incident

7 cases · 1 of 15 alert messages verbatim-confirmed

2025

evacuation: 2025-09-13900-Plus Lightning Strikes Empty Ross-Ade Stadium Before Purdue-USCadvisory
infrastructure failure: 2025-02-12PurdueALERT Goes Out for a Water Main Break: The First Big Test of the Rave-Based System in 2025emergency notification

2024

other: 2024-09-25A Bag Over a Head, a Car Door Closing, and the Timely Warning That Arrived at Different Times for Different Studentstimely warning

2020

other: 2020-10-20Three Times the Licensed Power for Nearly a Year: Purdue's PUR-1 Reactor Ran Overpowered Without Anyone Knowingadvisory

2015

bomb threat: 2015-09-23Schleman Hall's Two-Hour Evacuation: Purdue's Quiet September 2015 Bomb Threatemergency notification

2014

active shooter: 2014-01-21120 Characters, Semicolons, and 83,000 Contacts: The Anatomy of an SMS-Optimized Alertemergency notification1 killedverbatim

2012

chemical spill: 2012-03-27Water-Reactive Chemical Spill Triggers Fourth-Floor Evacuation at Purdue's Historic Wetherill Hall of Chemistryadvisory

By incident type

What Purdue has alerted about

other · 2 Active Shooter · 1 Bomb Threat · 1 evacuation · 1 Hazmat / Gas · 1 Infrastructure · 1

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