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How to local Emergency Management Agencies know when to sound a Tornado Siren?

How do local EMA's know when to sound a Tornado Siren? Who usually sounds them and where are they triggered? Please let me know thank you.


    

Brandi C
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The national weather service collects the data and determines if and where a tornado is likely to strike. They will then notify the state's warning point (each state has one main warning point operated by the national weather service). That warning point will then notify each agency whose jurisdiction is in danger. In most states that would be your county's 911 dispatch center. They notify them via radio and a teletype sent through NCIC (the National Crime Information Center) - each state has their own version of NCIC, in Oregon we have LEDS (Law Enforcement Data Services) but I don't know what state you are in. The person who receives the message from their state's warning point will then sound the siren. It sounds complicated but it only takes a few seconds.

The guy looking at the doplar screen decides there may be a tornado, he picks up the radio and calls the State Warning Point and tells them where the tornadoes are likely to happen. "Your State" Warning Point gets on the radio and sends a brief emergency tone, which signals the dispatchers in each county to listen then he gives the info. The dispatchers hit a button to sound the tornado siren.


Bill
Most of the information is gathered from local Doplar radar stations and weather channels. They can see how the weather changes every minute on a 24 hours basis and can predict a storm that is brewing. This information is sent to surrounding areas and is sounded by local police or fire as well as EMA's assigned as watch dogs.





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