Geographically specific picture telephone advisory alert broadcasting system

A method of broadcasting advisory alerts via communications networks, comprising:

• providing a central notification computer in communication with at least one communications network, said communications network including portable telephones capable of creating, sending and receiving pictorial messages;
• providing a means to transmit an advisory alert to a plurality of electronic device addresses from the central notification computer;
• maintaining a subscriber database of electronic device addresses to receive the advisory alerts, wherein the subscriber database includes a plurality of subscriber data sets, the data sets including the electronic device address and at least one geographic location associated with the electronic device address;
• maintaining the subscriber database in a computer retrievable format for access by the central notification computer;
• providing a means to initiate an advisory alert broadcast from the central notification computer;
• associating a geographic area with the advisory alert, wherein the geographic area is defined by a perimeter;
• activating an algorithm to retrieve the electronic device addresses associated with geographical locations within the perimeter;
• and
• transmitting the advisory alert to the electronic device address associated with geographic locations within the perimeter.