JANESVILLE — Rock County Emergency Management is exploring updating its emergency weather sirens to sound them only in the close vicinity of where a weather emergency is imminent.
Currently, the sirens sound countywide if thereöÏÓãÊÓƵapp a tornado warning or, in a recent change by the National Weather Service, a warning of a severe storm with damaging winds.
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