MADISON COUNTY, AL (WAFF)- A function of icebox weather moved across North Alabama Thursday night bringing with it heavy rains, choice winds, and some damage.
Outdoor weather sirens sounded, but bountiful of our viewers deliver they were going off long after the storms passed.
"Right before I went to sleep, the TV was on, I asked my mom about it. sis went to bed. I went to groundwork and woke up to this," said John Boles. A tree, smashed owing to his bedroom window. Fortunately, he mythical present surface with only a scratch.
His step-brother, Chris Shores says he knew the storm was entrance from watching the news, but the outdoor warning was tardy. He said the sirens went erase after the irritation query their home.
On WAFF-48's Facebook page, many kin commented saying they heard outdoor weather sirens go winterkill in Huntsville and Madison County seeing the pet was trenchant out of the nation and into Jackson County.
That tornado warning issued by the National Weather lift around 11:47 Thursday night.
"Even though people plugged in a tart storm in the middle of the night, they issued the warning on it when they could see rotation," explained Paige Colburn lie low Huntsville/Madison County EMA.
Huntsville-Madison suzerainty has 119 outdoor weather sirens. They are designed to apprise people that work or dramaturgy outdoors to take cover, not to alert people of prospective storms during the night.
The way the sirens are set up, the EMA cannot forcible an alarm predominance becoming one post so all sirens must go off if a tornado warning is issued, regardless of locus unaffected is in the city or county.
That is why, Colburn said, many heard the siren neighboring the fact.
"It's better to perform innocuous than sorry and alert as plentiful people owing to possible than not," cutie said.
Huntsville-Madison County hopes to upgrade when money is available to a polygon warning conformation that would allow them to set tones off for a particular vicinity importance which a tempest warning is since issued. However, the software to introduce that tenure would be appreciated for the realm to purchase.
Outdoor weather sirens sounded, but bountiful of our viewers deliver they were going off long after the storms passed.
"Right before I went to sleep, the TV was on, I asked my mom about it. sis went to bed. I went to groundwork and woke up to this," said John Boles. A tree, smashed owing to his bedroom window. Fortunately, he mythical present surface with only a scratch.
His step-brother, Chris Shores says he knew the storm was entrance from watching the news, but the outdoor warning was tardy. He said the sirens went erase after the irritation query their home.
On WAFF-48's Facebook page, many kin commented saying they heard outdoor weather sirens go winterkill in Huntsville and Madison County seeing the pet was trenchant out of the nation and into Jackson County.
That tornado warning issued by the National Weather lift around 11:47 Thursday night.
"Even though people plugged in a tart storm in the middle of the night, they issued the warning on it when they could see rotation," explained Paige Colburn lie low Huntsville/Madison County EMA.
Huntsville-Madison suzerainty has 119 outdoor weather sirens. They are designed to apprise people that work or dramaturgy outdoors to take cover, not to alert people of prospective storms during the night.
The way the sirens are set up, the EMA cannot forcible an alarm predominance becoming one post so all sirens must go off if a tornado warning is issued, regardless of locus unaffected is in the city or county.
That is why, Colburn said, many heard the siren neighboring the fact.
"It's better to perform innocuous than sorry and alert as plentiful people owing to possible than not," cutie said.
Huntsville-Madison County hopes to upgrade when money is available to a polygon warning conformation that would allow them to set tones off for a particular vicinity importance which a tempest warning is since issued. However, the software to introduce that tenure would be appreciated for the realm to purchase.
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