Officials are investigating the cause of five emergency alerts in Cass County that said the tornado warning was cancelled, at the same time an EF1 tornado barrelled through Belton.
At 5:14 p.m. on April 17, individuals signed up for Cass County emergency alerts received a message saying there was a tornado warning in Cass County. The calls, texts or emails were sent through Everbridge, an emergency management platform, to people who had signed up.
As the tornado first touched down in Belton at 5:19 p.m., those people received a message that said, “A Tornado Warning is no longer in effect for your area.”…