By City of Chadron Police Department
CHADRON, Neb. - The coming week of March 23 through March 27 is severe weather awareness week. On Wednesday at 9 a.m., the 911 Center at the Chadron Police Dept. will sound all area Tornado Sirens in conjunction with a statewide Tornado Warning exercise. Sirens will sound for three minutes with a steady tone during the Tornado Warning test, at 9 a.m. this Wednesday. Sirens should sound at that time in Chadron, Crawford, Harrison and Whitney.
People interested in increasing their Severe Weather Preparedness and Awareness can go to the National Weather Service website at the two links below, where there is information on all varieties of Severe Weather, including Tornados, Severe Thunderstorms, Lightning, Flooding, Excess Heat, and Winter Weather and weather fact and charts for the State of Nebraska.
Our Counties uses Code Red for our emergency warnings and for getting important information out to the public. Code Red will also alert you if there is a Severe Weather in our area. If you would like to sign up for these alerts, please go to our area at: http://panhandlealert.org/ and sign up. You will need to pick your county. Please provide your address so that the system can provide alerts for that specific location where you reside.
https://www.weather.gov/fsd/safety_preparedness
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