Unfortunately, you're asking for every gov't to be reliably competent. With no petty bureaucrats trying to advance their careers by getting their notices prior

Unfortunately, you're asking for every gov't to be reliably competent. With no petty bureaucrats trying to advance their careers by getting their notices prioritized. And no politicians bowing to (say) the demands of a lightning victim's family, to have top-priority alerts sound whenever lightning might maybe-in-theory be possible within 10 or so miles.