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Saline County emergency management reports tornado warnings, mobile command-post plans and training

2898981 · April 8, 2025
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Summary

Emergency management briefed commissioners on tornado warnings that affected parts of the county, plans to upgrade mobile command-post capacity, lithium-ion battery training for first responders and wildfire and rural fire updates.

Michelle Wise, Saline County emergency management director, briefed the county commission on the first-quarter emergency-management activity, including last week's rotating-wall cloud and resulting tornado warnings that triggered sirens affecting parts of Salina and nearby towns.

Wise said the National Weather Service mapped a rotating wall cloud that moved from Ellsworth County, passed north of Smolan and over the Smoky Hill Bombing Range, then shifted north of Salina and into Dickinson and Clay counties. Approximately 25,000 people were…

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