Sirens going off South Kansas City at 3 am

nomadcowatbk · Post by **nomadcowatbk** » Fri Jul 16, 2004 3:23 am

they went off when the Tornado Warning was issused for Jackson County, no Tornados were spotted in that area

scooterj · Post by **scooterj** » Fri Jul 16, 2004 3:31 am

Depending on which channel you watched, there was either a tornado near Riverside heading straight towards Downtown or there was a tornado near Liberty heading straight towards Eastern Jackson County. In either case I didn't see anything other than lots of lightning and some really cool cloud formations.

nomadcowatbk · Post by **nomadcowatbk** » Fri Jul 16, 2004 3:45 am

I thought they could turn on sirens in certain areas after they got the new system installed, why would they turn them on all over the county

DiggityDawg · Post by **DiggityDawg** » Fri Jul 16, 2004 11:01 am

While we could hear sirens off a bit in the distance, it wasn't deafening - & I think there's some sirens on top of the Ambassador building half a block away. So I dunno what was up there. By 4AM we went back to sleep.

nomadcowatbk · Post by **nomadcowatbk** » Fri Jul 16, 2004 12:27 pm

they sounded pretty close to me, I live near 95th and Wornall

Post by **dangerboy** » Fri Jul 16, 2004 1:19 pm

Sounded like some KCK sirens that I heard in Midtown. Channel 5 kept telling us that Katy Horner was on her way into the studio, I think she made it on the air around 3:30am. She was telling everyone to seek shelter, but since Channel 9 wasn't even breaking into their regular programming I knew it was OK to go back to sleep

scooterj · Post by **scooterj** » Fri Jul 16, 2004 6:52 pm

Metro Weather is pretty useless BTW. They did go live into storm mode before KCTV. but they were the ones reporting a tornado heading towards downtown. Later, after storm #1 was already off in lee's Summit, Metro Weather's radar was still showing it as north downtown KC.

DiggityDawg · Post by **DiggityDawg** » Sat Jul 17, 2004 11:13 am

No big surprise....Metro Weather comes outta somewhere on the East Coast, if I remember right.

Post by **dangerboy** » Sat Jul 17, 2004 8:15 pm

Metro weather is produced locally at TWC's studios. It's just geared toward showing you the radar and forecast, it isn't really designed to do breaking weather news well.

DiggityDawg · Post by **DiggityDawg** » Sun Jul 18, 2004 11:29 am

Are you sure? I coulda sworn I read somewhere that it was programmed by an outfit on the East Coast ( I wanna say CT, but I don't remember for sure ) that produces material for markets around the country.