How many tornado sirens are in Sedgwick County, Kansas? The county installed its first 13 air raid sirens in the 1950s, but the number has grown to 153 sirens across 21 different jurisdictions.

Due to issues during last weekend’s storms, the county said Emergency Management is consolidating tornado-siren activation into five warning zones instead of seven.

The days of all-or-nothing sounding of the tornado sirens in Sedgwick County are dwindling to a precious few.

Sedgwick County provided an update to a question a lot of Derby residents were asking following Saturday night’s storms.

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.

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 week.

Officials here have the technology during tornado warnings to sound sirens only in the storm's path, but will instead initially sound them countywide.

As a part of the week, Sedgwick County Emergency Management will be participating in a statewide tornado drill Wednesday morning. The sirens will sound for five minutes starting at 11 a.m.

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 officials acknowledge some rural residents likely did not hear sirens going off before an EF-3 tornado roared through Andover.