SUMMIT COUNTY, Ohio (WJW) — Thousands of Summit County residents will no longer hear tornado sirens during severe weather.

As of Sept. 2, nearly 60 out of the 79 tornado sirens in Winnebago County are working, according to Sheriff Gary Caruana.

ST. LOUIS — Four years ago, the city’s emergency management chief went before aldermen and delivered some concerning news: The city’s tornado sirens were getting old.

The old system dispatchers used to manually activate tornado sirens will still work and serve as a backup, but in most cases, it has been replaced by a new platform called CommanderOne.

The City of St. Louis released the findings of an external investigation into the tornado siren failure that occurred when the deadly May 16 storm struck. It comes on the same day the city’s emergency ...

These sirens are designed to alert people outside that it’s time to seek shelter, but they don’t always mean severe weather is overhead. We explain.

New tornado sirens are coming to Paragould after many of the old ones were damaged.

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 ...