Campus Alert Archive

Institution

Washington University in St. Louis

WashUMOPrivate R1WashU Alert~16,000 students

Cases: 3
Alerts: 9
Verbatim: 44%
Span: 2024–2026

Official alert policy

How WashU says it will alert — when and how WashUAlerts activates, summarized, quoted, and analyzed.

Case log

Every documented incident

3 cases · 4 of 9 alert messages verbatim-confirmed

2026

armed person: 2026-02-24Run, Hide, or Fight: WashU's 63-Minute Shelter-in-Place After False Report of Armed Person Near Brookings Hallemergency notificationverbatim

2025

tornado: 2025-05-16Into the Basement of the Rec Center as a Tornado Carved a 23-Mile Path Through St. Louisemergency notification

2024

civil unrest: 2024-04-27100 Arrests in 68 Minutes: WashU Used Its Emergency Alert System to Tell Students to Avoid Their Own Libraryadvisoryverbatim

By incident type

What WashU has alerted about

Active Shooter · 1 Civil Unrest · 1 Weather · 1

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