FEMA: New Sirens Save Lives During 2019 Missouri Tornado
August 22, 2019
August 22, 2019
JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri, Aug. 22 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency issued the following news release:
Thanks to new sirens blaring a warning message about the approaching tornado this past May, no lives were lost in Missouri's Cole County and Jefferson City, the state capital.
In 2011 a deadly EF-5 tornado--winds more than 200 mph, top of the Enhanced Fujita Damage Scale--took 161 lives in Joplin, MO. The catastrophic ev . . .
Thanks to new sirens blaring a warning message about the approaching tornado this past May, no lives were lost in Missouri's Cole County and Jefferson City, the state capital.
In 2011 a deadly EF-5 tornado--winds more than 200 mph, top of the Enhanced Fujita Damage Scale--took 161 lives in Joplin, MO. The catastrophic ev . . .