When storms hit north Missouri on Sunday, there was some confusion as to why the warning sirens were not activated in Trenton and Grundy County Emergency Management Director Glen Briggs has provided an answer to that question.
“Yesterday’s storm threat as identified by the National Weather Service was in extreme northwest Grundy County, north of Brimson and toward the west of Spickard,” he said. “There was zero tornado risk for Trenton.”
Briggs said that some people in the Trenton area may have received a wireless emergency alert telling them to seek shelter. The cell phone carriers delivered the message to anyone within range of the tower, regardless of if they were in the tornado warning area or not.
“The bottom line to remember is tornadoes are small and counties are big,” he said. “We remain diligent during severe weather and we would have sounded the sirens had there been a tornado risk for the city of Trenton.”
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