MEDORA — The Medora Town Council meeting on Monday brought back some old topics to give them fresh updates.

After Van's sirens failed during a 2015 tornado, city leaders spent $200,000 on upgrades to its emergency warning system.

A warning siren shouldn't be the first indication that a severe thunderstorm or a tornado is possible, says the ...

Essex Community Development Director Tess Nelson tells KMA News that the city was notified earlier this week that it is ...

On Oct. 2, Martindale, Texas, tested its warning siren. Read our investigation into Central Texas counties that still don't have their own warning sirens after Gov. Greg Abbott signed a new law ...

Maury County is installing its first tornado sirens following public demand after an EF-3 tornado destroyed multiple homes and killed one person in the city of Columbia in May 2024. The mostly rural ...

Hays County Judge Ruben Becerra, who also serves as the county’s emergency management director, said the city missed a crucial opportunity to alert residents. “We had an opportunity to utilize our ...

SAN MARCOS, Texas — According to a post on Facebook, the City of San Marcos is investigating the cause of the city’s weather sirens not going off during a tornado warning on Friday, Oct. 24. They say ...

The city of San Marcos has launched an investigation after outdoor warning sirens that had been upgraded to go off automatically in response to federally issued alerts did not sound on Friday night ...

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Every year, an average of around 20 to 30 tornadoes strike the Palmetto State, but despite the amount of twisters, the number of operational tornado sirens is actually decreasing. According to ...

As a confirmed tornado tore through South-Central Texas late Friday night, one Hill Country city was caught off guard—not by the storm itself, but by the silence. The National Weather Service (NWS) ...