Over here in Tulsa County, Tulsa is usually good with sounding sirens; however, other outlying towns have been not so good. Once when I was in a city north of Tulsa and there was a tornado warning for the county, but they didn't set off theirs. They seem extremely selective of when to sound.t-bolt82 wrote:Busgeek71 wrote:I would use steady for tornado warnings, wail as a flood or other disaster signal, and fast wail for straight line winds >74mph (Cat. 1 hurricane). I would sound for a tornado if it is anywhere within the county.
Well, I belive it already is the law that the warnings are by county and not city - am I right? I mean, last year, when we had a tornado warning when I was in my [now] city of Warren, there were no actual tornadoes there, but they were in Macomb County, so the siren down the street went off. So, I've always thought that sirens go off county-wide if the warning is in that county - regardless if it's in that city or not.
AQHort wrote:I think it is a good idea to sound sirens for tornadoes as well as thunderstorms with excessively high winds. However, I fell that using the same signal for both isn't a good idea. Here in Oakland County, the sirens are sounded for both Tornado Warnings and Severe Thunderstorms with winds in excess of 70mph; bith use Alert signal. I would reccomend using th Attack (or Fast Wail) signal for Tornado Warnings and Alert for Severe thunderstorm warnings, with a 1 min alert and 2 min attack for tests (electro mechanical sirens). For electronic sirens I would use Either Attack or Alert for Tornado Warnings and Hi-Lo or Alternate Wail for Severe T-Storms with 70+mph winds.
They do sound for doppler or storm spotter indicated rotation and that is what prompted the warning on June 15th 2010. Someone spotted rotation near the ground around Cross County/Reagan highway near Finneytown and there were 5 other doppler indicated rotations. The warning has to be issued first. If the warning is'nt issued the sirens won't sound.carexpertandy wrote:In Hamilton County, they won't sound the sirens if there's a report of a funnel cloud/tornado, and no warning is issued, because I heard that around 2002, a police officer reported a funnel cloud, there was no warning, the sirens sounded, and it turns out that it wasn't a funnel cloud.
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