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[wxfan22]

http://www.wtva.com/..._ga2mYtbfA.cspx

I found this story on Tupelo adding a 16th tornado siren a little unsettling. I personally believe sirens should be the very last alternative when figuring out the weather situation. This article makes it seem like these citizens would have no way to know if a tornado was coming if the sirens didn't sound. That's a very dangerous, false, and outdated message to convey when we have television, internet, and social media that are 100x more reliable than a siren. While adding the siren to extend coverage makes sense, I feel like someone should have mentioned how ignorant it is to rely only on sirens somewhere in that story.

Edited by wxfan22, 07 July 2012 - 05:56 PM.

[Mike Puckett]

"If I don't hear it, I won't know what to do," business owner Kwanza Smith said. "No matter how bad the wind is getting, to me, it might just be another thunderstorm."

That's what I like to call a future statistic

[metallicwx366]

Why the need of so many tornado sirens? We don't even have tornado sirens down here and we had 4 tornado warnings this year. If you don't here it to bad because it should appear on your TV.