AMARILLO, Texas (KFDA) – The National Weather Service confirmed two tornadoes touched down Tuesday night, triggering outdoor warning sirens across the area during a severe weather outbreak that produced 14 tornado warnings across the Texas Panhandle.
Outdoor warning sirens activate when a funnel is spotted or when there is high confidence of one forming, triggering a tornado watch or warning.
“These sirens are in fact activated for more than just tornadoes. However, in this case this week it was tornadoes,” said Max Dunlap, director of the Amarillo Office of Emergency Management. “So Tuesday night came multiple warnings throughout Potter, Randall County, the city of Canyon, city of Amarillo, all of which is our system cover. So as those storms and those warnings came through, these sirens were activated for each of one of these warnings.”…