HA Alert results in "Referenced devices are missing or not currently available" warning

Hi everyone,

I recently created this alert:

name: Sump Pump one is off
entity_id: switch.plug_wp03_relay
state: "off"
repeat:
  - 10
  - 20
  - 30
  - 60
can_acknowledge: True
skip_first: False
title: "Sump Pump Power Issue"
message: "The plug should not be off"
done_message: "The plug is now on"
notifiers:
  - critical

The alert is working great, but my logs are filling with this warning message:

2024-04-12 12:55:03.818 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.helpers.service] Referenced devices f051b3ad6cf66dbc3375ac6deacc19bb are missing or not currently available
2024-04-12 12:55:56.982 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.helpers.service] Referenced devices f051b3ad6cf66dbc3375ac6deacc19bb are missing or not currently available
2024-04-12 12:56:14.692 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.helpers.service] Referenced devices f051b3ad6cf66dbc3375ac6deacc19bb are missing or not currently available
2024-04-12 12:56:34.317 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.helpers.service] Referenced devices f051b3ad6cf66dbc3375ac6deacc19bb are missing or not currently available
2024-04-12 12:57:30.507 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.helpers.service] Referenced devices f051b3ad6cf66dbc3375ac6deacc19bb are missing or not currently available

Has anyone come across this in the past?
As soon as I comment out this alert, the warnings go away.

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Dang it… I had a bad device reference in Node-Red.