What is the Lifecycle of State(Status) in Alerts?

I am using Email as Notifier to send notifications when threshold breaches, Please explain the Lifecycle of statuses in Grafana’s Alerts

boy I really wish there had been an answer here. Im trying to figure out a several minute delay in resolved notifications and my guess is normal state != resolved state with maybe two normals needed for it to be resolved but have not been able to confirm that.