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KCTV5 News Investigates Tornado Sirens

POSTED: 4:40 pm CDT May 15, 2008
UPDATED: 7:53 am CDT May 16, 2008

Early in the morning of May 2, two tornadoes roared through the Northland, leaving homes destroyed, businesses decimated and an enormous cleanup job.

So KCTV5 News wanted to know which tornado sirens in the metro had the most problems in the past three years, how serious those problems were and how long it took to fix a faulty siren, especially during tornado season -- March 1 through July 1.

The following downloadable .pdf documents reveal the locations of sirens in several metro cities that had repeated malfunctions.

  • Bonner Springs Sirens

  • Independence Sirens

  • Kansas City, Kansas Sirens

  • Kansas City, Missouri Sirens

  • Leawood Sirens

  • Lenexa Sirens

  • Overland Park Sirens


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