(WBBM NEWSRADIO) — The city of Naperville is meeting with its contractor after tornado sirens failed to go off Saturday morning when an EF-0 tornado touched down in the western suburb.
Naperville Emergency Management Coordinator Dan Nelson said the sirens did not activate before the tornado hit at 5:40 a.m. because the National Weather Service had not issued a tornado warning at the time.
“We know for a fact the National Weather Service did not issue a tornado warning for the tornado that hit Naperville. For the tornado that hit Romeoville, there was a tornado warning issued, and our system should have automatically activated. We’re trying to find out where that failure occurred at,” he said.
Meantime, residents told officials the federal system for cell phone alerts worked intermittently that day, he said. One husband received the notification but his wife didn’t, even though they were in the same house, Nelson said.
Most of the damage in Naperville was limited to property and trees. But coming more than a year after another, more destructive tornado hit the city, Nelson pledges more action.
“There will be additional redundancies that we’ll come up with,” he said.
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