{"id":170771,"date":"2019-05-01T10:30:51","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T15:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=170771"},"modified":"2019-05-01T11:57:36","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T16:57:36","slug":"statewide-tornado-drill-sirens-tested-may-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=170771","title":{"rendered":"Statewide Tornado Drill &#038; Siren Test May 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-120466\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Siren-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/>The week of April 29<sup>th<\/sup> has been designated, \u201cSevere Summer Weather Awareness Week,\u201d for the entire state of North Dakota.\u00a0 This annual event is intended 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><strong>As part of the awareness week activities, Stutsman County will conduct a tornado exercise that will begin at about 11:15 a.m. Wed May 1. The exercise will simulate what occurs locally when a tornado warning is issued by the National Weather Service.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The tornado exercise will be testing internal notification procedures county-wide along with siren activation capabilities.\u00a0 Sirens will be activated in many area communities including the Cities of Jamestown, Buchanan, Cleveland, Medina and Streeter.\u00a0 In most communities, sirens will be activated for approximately 3 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Because the National Weather Service will not directly be involved with the exercise, the simulated warning will <u>not<\/u> be broadcast through the National Weather Service all-hazards weather radio system.\u00a0 Also, the Emergency Alert System (EAS) for local AM\/FM radio stations and cable television providers will <strong><u>not<\/u> <\/strong>be activated. The Stutsman Alert\u2019s notification system powered by <strong>Everbridge<\/strong> also will <strong><u>not<\/u> <\/strong>be activated for this test.<\/p>\n<p><strong>However\u2026the\u00a0local CSi Cable interrupt system WILL be tested at approximately the time of the Tornado Drill activated by the Jamestown Law Enforcement Center in Jamestown.<\/strong><\/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 community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The week of April 29th has been designated, \u201cSevere Summer Weather Awareness Week,\u201d for the entire state of North Dakota.\u00a0 This annual event is intended 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, [&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-170771","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\/170771","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=170771"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170978,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170771\/revisions\/170978"}],"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=170771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}