So what’s the scoop on the sirens, anyone know?
Tonight it started to rain..then a heavy rain, with hail. My camper started rocking and I’m thinking I should get ready to take cover…like in a building that’s attached to the ground maybe?
Ok, the rain/hail/wind stopped. THEN the sirens went off!
Anyone have a clue what rhyme or reason they use to sound the sirens?
Just giving you the ‘All Clear’. Wait a minute Brian. Were you alone in that trailer when it started rocking??? And are you positive their was that strong of a wind???? 
Where is the camper Brian? I know in Dakota County the DCC controls the sirens. They set them off for severe storms and tornato warnings. Sometimes they come to late though.
Did you have the “If this camper is rockin don’t bother knockin” sign on the door? 
Here in Lakeville they seem to blow them when the sky clouds up?
As Bob Dylan said, “You don’t need a Weather Man to tell which way the wind blows.”
Maybe who ever is charge of setting them off got woke up by the storm, and by the time they got to the switch it had blown over, and they figured as long as they were up…..
Al
Ya, the same thing happened where i live weird, i thought maybe something worse was going to follow and i was right had to go to work
They went off in Hudson yesterday and we did not have bad weather at all. Someone commented on a storm in the Northern part of St. Croix county. They can’t go off county wide can they??
Hudson was not even threatened yesterday during the day.
I am pretty sure they go off by county and some have different thresholds. I think a lot of metro counties went to sounding them with severe thunderstorm warnings, but have backed off that for the most part.
Been a while since I heard them here in Richfield. This year all the storms, especially coming from the NW, seem to split and go around us.
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Just giving you the ‘All Clear’
I would go with the all clear if the sirens were sounded once before.
Here is how they work in LaCrosse County. All the sirens throughout the county are interlinked. If ANYWHERE in the county has wind speeds in excess of 60 mph, it triggers the response and ALL the sirens go off in the county.
I have been sitting in town with blue skies when they sirens went off. The southern end of the county had a severe thunderstorm with heavy rain and damaging winds which caused the chain reaction of alarms.
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They went off in Hudson yesterday and we did not have bad weather at all. Someone commented on a storm in the Northern part of St. Croix county. They can’t go off county wide can they??
Hudson was not even threatened yesterday during the day.
The sirens in Hudson go off anytime there is severe weather in the county even if there is no threat to Hudson. I think it is rediculous. When we hear them go off we go outside to look at the weather. Probably not the right thing to do, but since they are of questionable value to us we check on our own.
I dont know how it is else where but Dakota County can set them off by community. Hastings, Miesville, Hampton, and so on. So if something is on the South end of the county they dont have to sound them for the north half. Of course right now I think Hastings as 2 or 3 of them down and not working so it has been pretty quiet by my house.
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