Yes, found the warning. We sent out a bulletin to all of the affected area's governments.
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2004/s2357.htm
Dec. 26, 2004 — NOAA scientists acted quickly when a warning was issued about the powerful undersea earthquake in the Indian Ocean that triggered a devastating tsunami. Within minutes following an alarm signaling the strong earthquake, the NOAA Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii issued an information bulletin to nations in the Pacific at 8:14 p.m. EST Saturday, indicating that a magnitude 8.0 earthquake (later upgraded to magnitude 9.0) had occurred off the west coast of Northern Sumatra, Indonesia. Because the earthquake, reported to be one of the strongest in the world in the past 40 years, occurred in the Indian Ocean, not the Pacific, there was no threat of a tsunami to Hawaii, the West Coast of North America or to other coasts in the Pacific Basin—the U.S. area of responsibility. (Click NOAA image for larger view of Indonesia tsunami epicenter map. Click here for high resolution version, which is a large file. Please credit “NOAA.”)
Hey BigLook,
If NOAA had computer models of this Tsunomi and sent out information bulletins about it...why was the death toll so high? Any thoughts?
If you check the timeline here, http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2004/s2358.htm,
it appears that NOAA's Pacific Tsunami warning system neither detected nor predicted the Tsunami. In fact, the "warning" they issued was essentially an "all clear" notice to the nations on the Pacific Rim. Two of the countries which received this notice were Indonesia and Thailand which were hit on their Indian Ocean coasts.