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. (KWCH) - Sedgwick County provided an update to a question a lot of Derby residents were asking following Saturday night’s storms. Why didn’t the tornado sirens sound in their town?

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… ...

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 ...

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 ...

Shawnee County officials have the technology during tornado warnings to sound sirens only in the storm's path. But they recently decided, at least for now, to first sound them countywide to get ...

SEDGWICK COUNTY, Kan. (KSNW) — The National Weather Service’s Severe Weather Preparedness week is from March 4-8. As a part of the week, Sedgwick County Emergency Management will be ...

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.

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.

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 ...