Chambers County EMA Director, Donnie Smith announced Friday, September 5th, that a county wide testing of the seventeen tornado warning sirens will be conducted on the 1st Saturday of each month at noon Eastern Time, beginning this Saturday. If severe weather is threatening, the test will be postponed.
The test will involve a full three minute warning cycle at each of the sirens located throughout the county.
“While our software system does periodic checks weekly, a full test cycle is the best way to determine full functionally of all the sirens”, Smith said.
Units located in Lanett, Valley, Lafayette, Five Points, Waverly, West Point Lake area, Penton and West Chambers will sound for three minutes, just as they would if a tornado warning was issued.
Tornado sirens are designed to alert people caught
outdoors when a warning is issued. Citizens who hear a siren during a warning
should seek shelter immediately and tune to NOAA weather radio or other sources
of reliable emergency weather information.
