{"id":120168,"date":"2017-04-21T18:58:07","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T23:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=120168"},"modified":"2017-04-24T13:11:34","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T18:11:34","slug":"tornado-drill-apr-26th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=120168","title":{"rendered":"Statewide Tornado Drill Weds April 26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-74011 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/TornadoPingreeJune2-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/TornadoPingreeJune2-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/TornadoPingreeJune2-259x175.jpg 259w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/TornadoPingreeJune2.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Jamestown\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0Stutsman County Emergency Manager, Jerry Bergquist says, &#8220;As part of the awareness week activities, the annual statewide tornado exercise will be conducted. <strong>The exercise is scheduled to begin at about 11:15 a.m. Wednesday, April 26<\/strong>,\u00a0with a simulated tornado warning issued by the National Weather Service.\u00a0 In response to the simulated warning, a countywide exercise of the emergency operations plan will take place.\u00a0 The plan is designed to warn the greatest number of people in the least amount of time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>The week of April 24th has been designated, &#8220;Severe Summer Weather Awareness Week,&#8221; for the entire state of North Dakota.\u00a0 This annual event is designed to remind the public of the dangers associated with severe summer weather including:\u00a0 lightning, high winds, large hail, flash floods and tornadoes, all of which can cause severe property damage, personal injury, and even death.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the exercise, sirens will be activated in many area communities\u00a0 including the City of Jamestown.\u00a0 In most communities, sirens will be activated for approximately 3 minutes. In addition, the simulated warning<br \/>\nwill be broadcast over the National Weather Service all-hazards weather radio system, local AM\/FM radio stations and local cable television interrupt systems.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>The most common reason a community&#8217;s warning sirens are activated is to warn the public of a possible tornado.\u00a0 However, sirens could also be activated to alert the public of other types of events that could be a danger to the<br \/>\ncommunity.\u00a0 Hearing the sirens is the signal to either tune into a local radio station or turn on the television, CSi Cable subscribers can to listen for official instructions.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>Information may also be provided via the CodeRED notification system, which \u00a0Stutsman County subscribes to, and the Stutsman County Facebook page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestown\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0Stutsman County Emergency Manager, Jerry Bergquist says, &#8220;As part of the awareness week activities, the annual statewide tornado exercise will be conducted. The exercise is scheduled to begin at about 11:15 a.m. Wednesday, April 26,\u00a0with a simulated tornado warning issued by the National Weather Service.\u00a0 In response to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17900,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120168"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120177,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120168\/revisions\/120177"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}