Sedgwick County operates 153 sirens across the county. Here’s what to know about the tones, when to take shelter and more. Getty Images Mahoning Matters Tornado season officially began this ...

Sedgwick County explains ... the county said Emergency Management is consolidating tornado-siren activation into five warning zones instead of seven. The zones are depicted in a color-coded map.

The days of all-or-nothing sounding of the tornado sirens in Sedgwick County are dwindling to a precious few. By early April, local emergency management officials say, all 147 sirens in the county ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – Sedgwick County is addressing a tornado siren malfunction that happened early Sunday. Around 4:45 a.m., a dispatcher responding to incoming severe weather information from ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – Julie Stimson, Sedgwick County Emergency Management director, explained why tornado sirens failed to sound in Derby on Saturday night during a tornado warning. She made… ...

Sedgwick County Emergency Management will hold special test on Monday, May 2, at noon, to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the first-ever air raid siren test in Wichita.

Sedgwick County has 152 sirens to cover about 1009 square miles, with most of them in cities. The county budgets about $110,000 annually for siren maintenance, and each new siren costs about $32,000.

The WARN Act is coming up ahead of the next severe weather season, prompted by emergency alert siren failures last year in ...

Sedgwick County officials acknowledge that some residents living in rural areas likely did not hear sirens going off before an EF-3 tornado roared through parts of the Kansas county last ...

Sedgwick County officials acknowledge that some residents living in rural areas likely did not hear sirens going off before an EF-3 tornado roared through parts of the Kansas county last week.

A destroyed house and other structures are seen in rural Sedgwick County, Kan., on Sunday, May 1, 2022, two days after a tornado was reported in the area. Sedgwick County officials acknowledge ...