The phrase "alarming incident" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an event that causes concern or fear, often due to its unexpected or dangerous nature.
Example: "The community was shaken by the alarming incident that occurred late last night, prompting a swift response from local authorities."
Alternatives: "disturbing event" or "worrying occurrence".
After one alarming incident, Chappell describes how the roads, and even the traffic, offered her succour.
As CDC investigators finalised their report into June's anthrax scare they unearthed a more alarming incident that had gone unreported.
A stream of flame The weighing of the machines began (Reuter's correspondent says) with a most alarming incident.
The most alarming incident I witnessed was an unsupervised poll worker struggling with a jammed paper trail printer.
The details of George's well-known mental illness include here an alarming incident where he tried to "ravish" his own daughter.
In Rome two weeks ago Hingis, after a visit to the Colosseum and having seen the film Gladiator, had talked about getting the crowd on her side, but she could hardly have envisaged yesterday's potentially alarming incident.
Still, there have been other alarming incidents.
This was the second of the two alarming incidents of the period.
Osman Baydemir, a young lawyer who runs its Diyarbakir branch, lists a string of alarming incidents.What has prompted this apparently harsher behaviour by the security forces towards the Kurds?
The spate of alarming incidents in recent months underscoring the depth of the military's sexual assault problem did not dissuade Senator Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, from killing the most promising corrective on the table.
Slate writer Michelle Goldberg came out early in support of wearing safety pins, highlighting some alarming incidents of violence against Muslim women and racially charged graffiti in schools around the country.
