MOCK TORNADO DRILL SCHEDULED

As part of Severe Weather Awareness Week, the National Weather Service in conjunction with local Emergency Management offices, will be doing a mock Tornado Drill on Wednesday April 21st, 2021. The Mock Tornado Drill will be held across the entire State of South Dakota. Here is what will happen that day. At 10:15 a.m. the National Weather Service will issue a test TORNADO WARNING, meaning a Tornado has been indicated by radar or spotted by trained storm spotters. In addition, we will test all the sirens in Yankton County if weather allows. We will also set off all the Fire/EMS pagers using the ALL CALL tones just as if it were the real event. For the Tornado warning, if you own a NOAA weather radio it should go off as well.