[Students] Tornado Warning System Set
Joan Lawrence
Joan_Lawrence at tamu-commerce.edu
Mon Feb 19 13:08:25 CST 2007
For Immediate Release:
Test Dates for Tornado Warning System Set
The City of Commerce and Texas A&M University-Commerce announced plans to
test the recently installed tornado warning system. Testing will be held
Feb. 19-21, 2007:
* Monday Feb. 19 -- testing will consist of multiple short blasts from
the sirens. These blasts will generally be five seconds or less in
duration.
* Wednesday Feb. 21 -- all sirens will be activated for five minutes
beginning at 10:00 a.m. (in the case of threatening weather the live audio
test will be postponed to a future date).
The integrated Tornado Warning System consists of four high-powered sirens
strategically located throughout the City and University. In addition, the
warning system can be activated from the University Police Department or the
Commerce Police Department.
For questions or comments, please call Assistant Chief Steve Harrison (City
of Commerce) at 903-886-1139, or Rusty Anderson, Safety/Risk Manager (Texas
A&M University-Commerce) at 903-886-5862.
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