"The siren tone that we heard on Saturday, this week, is what we call the attack mode," said Eric Rasmussen, director of ...

On Sunday evening, a tornado touched down near Belle Plaine, but not everyone in the area heard the warning sirens go off. While often a side benefit, emergency sirens are not intended to warn ...

"We were just relaxing, watching TV and then all of ... Behnke of Oshkosh. But the sound he and his family heard this past Saturday afternoon wasn't a tornado warning or even a weekly test.