Raising an Alert with THROW

It seems to me that SQL THROW is missing a crucial feature that RAISERROR has, and that is the abilty to use WITH LOG so that an Alert can be fired when the error number is logged in the Application log. Is there a simple way to do this that is escaping me or do I still have to rely on the more cumbersome RAISERROR and sp_addmessage SP? I would like to be able to notify an Operator through an Alert using THROW in a CATCH block.