Weather Siren Info.
Testing:
1st Thursday of every month between 9 am and 10am approximately sirens in the system will be tested.
(Hermitage, Clark, Farrell, Wheatland, West Middlesex, and Sharpsville.)
Alert Policy:
Sirens will be activated for Severe Thunderstorm Warnings and Tornado Warnings.
(Radar and NWS watched closely during severe conditions by both stations capable of activating sirens.)
current weather information concerning watches and warnings and local radar can be obtained by using:
www.weather.com or www.weatherunderground.com also found in our links section.
Weather Radios can be purchased thru Radio Shack and other various stores.
Below is a list of codes to be programmed into a weather radio should you get one.
These codes are for surrounding counties which are usually ahead of us in the storms path.
Should those counties alert it will give you advanced warning of what may be headed your way.
Mercer County- 042085
Trumbull County- 039155
Mahoning County- 039099
Lawrence County- 042073
Crawford County- 042039
Ashtabula County- 039007
Emergency information is broad cast on 1610am over the radio. Broad cast comes from Hermitage and may or may not be able to be heard in Clark. We suggest it be tested as soon as possible so you know if you will hear it. When sirens are set off information about the alert is broad cast. Weather broad cast are transmitted continuously through out the day on this same channel.
Police and fire scanners may also be programmed to hear weather reports from the NWS on Freq. 162.500Mhz.
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