The Licking County Emergency Management Agency said it's investigating a handful of tornado sirens that apparently didn't operate properly during Sunday night's severe weather.
"Right now, we're looking at three different locations," Director Sean Grady said. "Two of them didn't trigger and one that did not complete its cycle."
Grady said the normal cycle for a tornado siren is three minutes. He said the three locations are at West Main Street and 6th Street, Knollwood Drive and Simmons Road.
Grady said after checking the signal to the sirens in question, all had a signal coming to them.
In Tom Russell's backyard is the siren that is believed to have ended too soon.
"It only came on for, at most, maybe 30 seconds," he said.
Grady said all 54 sirens, as part of a statewide tornado drill, were tested two weeks ago. He says there were two minor issues, but they had been resolved. As of Sunday night, he believed all sirens to be fully operational.
Russell says when it comes to sirens he's never dealt with confusion like Sunday night.
"It went off real quick and my wife and I wondered 'What's going on?'" he said.
He said he doesn't solely rely on sirens, as he watches 10TV and he gets alerts sent to his phone. He says he always has a plan.
"You have to prepare," Russell said. "We have a basement, we have a place to go. That's all that you can do."
Grady said each siren is owned by the municipality where it resides and any maintenance will come from them. However, he says his department will now go to each of the 54 weather sirens in Licking County and check each of them one-by-one to make sure they are working properly.
He also said you should never make sirens your primary method of weather alerts. He suggests subscribing to RAVE Mobile Safety. For more information on this service, and to subscribe, click here.