Indiana Administrative Code
Title 290 - DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
Article 2 - SEVERE WEATHER WARNING SIRENS
Rule 1 - Severe Weather Warning Siren Planning
Section 1-1 - Purpose
Current through March 20, 2024
Authority: IC 36-8-21.5-9
Affected: IC 36-8-21.5
Sec. 1.
Severe weather warning sirens are used to alert citizens to an imminent weather hazard and prompt them to find shelter and to seek further detailed information from such sources as all-hazards weather radios and the media. A purpose of this article is to establish uniform county planning documents that may be used by county officials to determine when additional sirens are required. Another purpose is to establish common guidelines for the activation of sirens throughout Indiana that are in accordance with identified best practices throughout the United States. The article clarifies and provides detailed guidance concerning the following:
(1) The minimum standards and specifications of severe weather warning sirens used to notify citizens of an impending emergency or disaster incident including a minimum range, coverage patterns, and weather resistance characteristics for any outdoor siren that is to be acquired and installed in a county under a county's siren coverage plan.
(2) Required elements of a county siren coverage report.
(3) Required elements of a county siren coverage plan, which shall address the following:
(4) A general description of any storm, weather condition, or emergency, including a tornado, for which an outdoor weather warning siren may be activated.
(5) Requirements for any test, activation, or failure rate data that the IDHS may require a county to submit with respect to any siren identified by a county in a siren coverage report prepared by a county that complies with section 9 of this rule or siren coverage plan prepared by a county that complies with section 12 of this rule and any other information necessary for the IDHS to:
