WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) – A tornado siren malfunction created confusion early Friday for people the Wichita metro. As Storm Team 12 tracked a Tornado Warning in Sumner County around midnight, tornado sirens began sounding across Wichita despite no active warnings for the City or Sedgwick county.
According to Sedgwick County dispatchers, the storm in Sumner County caused the tornado sirens to activate at the Kansas Star Casino. This caused a chain reaction triggering sirens in Derby and Wichita, dispatch said.
Sedgwick County Emergency Management is looking in to what caused the malfunction.
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