Solar Powered Tornado Sirens
Pulaski County Installs First Solar-Powered Tornado Siren Photo from: The Arkansas Times Most Arkansas residents know about the recent traumatic event that happened just a few weeks ago. Little Rock and Wynne, Arkansas were recently hit by a EF3 tornado on March 31st, of the current year. Could these towns have been more prepared if they would have had another system to use to alert them of the incoming tornado. Up until the week of April 12th, Arkansas’s tornado sirens have religiously relied on electricity to alert towns of incoming tornados. Until recently there was not much of an option for tornado sirens to receive their power. Not that the system we had before was hurting us more than it was helping, but there are not better ways to power tornado sirens. Pulaski County Office of Emergency Management installed the first solar-powered tornado siren. This means that they now do not have to worry about how to alert their tight-knit society when normal electricity is not available
