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KALAMAZOO COUNTY, MI — 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 ...
The city's warning system didn't activate recently when a powerful tornado arrived in the city, the result of a broken ...
MUSTANG, Okla. (KFOR) — May is a big month in Oklahoma for severe weather, and many Oklahomans rely on tornado sirens to give a warning. One neighborhood has been left in silence after the ...
St. Louis' emergency management chief has been placed on administrative leave, the city's mayor said, after sirens meant to sound during a tornado warning failed to be activated ahead of Friday's ...
The Highland Fire Department is still compiling maintenance reports on allegedly faulty tornado sirens during a March storm after some residents said they didn’t hear sirens at all. The Post ...
IMPROVE SAFETY. SPENCER COUNTY IS CONVERTING ALL NINE OF ITS TORNADO SIRENS TO ELECTRIC POWER. PREVIOUSLY, THE SIRENS WERE BATTERY POWERED, LIMITING THE TIME THEY COULD BE ON, ADDIE MEINERS EXPLAINS.
Cancel anytime. Buildings damaged by the Friday, May 16, 2025, tornado are seen near a storm warning siren in the Penrose neighborhood of St. Louis on Tuesday, May 20, 2025. St. Louis Mayor Cara ...
ST. LOUIS – The City of St. Louis tested tornado sirens again Wednesday after Mayor Cara Spencer said Tuesday’s test revealed systemic failures. The sirens went off around the city as part of ...
Boone County, Missouri, has implemented a new targeted tornado siren system. The new system uses National Weather Service warning zones to activate only sirens in affected areas. This change aims ...
UPDATE (5/19/25) — The Bristow Fire Department said the tornado siren on South Maple Circle has been repaired after it was struck by lightning on Sunday. BRISTOW, Okla. — Bristow Fire Chief ...
ST. LOUIS — The City of St. Louis will test the storm siren system again Wednesday afternoon as the St. Louis Fire Department continues the transition into control of the system. The test will ...
ST. LOUIS — A cascade of mistakes led to the city’s failure to properly deploy its storm sirens last week before a deadly tornado tore through the city. The city’s emergency management staff ...