The best time to prepare for storms is before they arrive. Here's some information to help you brush up on your severe ...

Residents at a Kalamazoo County trailer park had little warning before being walloped by an EF2 tornado in May 2024. A wide majority said never heard the sirens. That lack of warning put them in ...

FORT SMITH -- With the merging of communication centers in Sebastian County, determining how to notify a larger portion of the public in emergency situations is a key concern. Members of the River ...

ST. LOUIS — A series of failures, from a misunderstood comment to equipment problems, left the city unable to activate tornado sirens before a deadly storm hit in May, according to a consultant’s ...

In a letter printed on July 16, Joshua Marks suggests the need for a tornado siren in Mount Airy (“Mount Airy needs a warning siren“). There are a couple of problems with this suggestion. A tornado ...

While tornado sirens are a staple across communities in the Midwest and Plains, most cities in Florida have never installed them, instead relying on other methods to get information out about ...

ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. — St. Louis County is rolling out a major upgrade to its outdoor warning sirens, making tornado alerts faster, smarter and more precise. The St. Louis County Office of Emergency ...

Mayor Cara Spencer outlined at a press conference how the city will begin spending money on tornado relief. St. Louis Mayor Cara Spencer is adamant that the public will see the results of an external ...

OUTAGAMIE COUNTY (WLUK) -- A scheduled test of Outagamie County's outdoor warning sirens has been canceled. According to the county's emergency management deputy director, sirens were supposed to ...

BEAVERCREEK (AP) – The southwest Ohio city hit by a tornado this week doesn’t use sirens to warn residents about severe weather, but officials say such an alert might not have been much help because ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) - Sirens rang out Wednesday afternoon in Pulaski County as storms rolled through. But there was no tornado warning. At 2:06 p.m., the Storm Prediction Center issued a severe ...

MUSCATINE, Iowa Although Iowa lies in Tornado Alley, not every town in this state has outdoor tornado warning sirens. Officials in Agency, the southeast Iowa town where a 2001 tornado destroyed 60 ...