{"id":223179,"date":"2026-03-17T04:25:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T04:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/223179\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T04:25:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T04:25:26","slug":"statewide-tornado-drill-this-week-the-oakland-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/223179\/","title":{"rendered":"Statewide tornado drill this week \u2013 The Oakland Press"},"content":{"rendered":"

The county\u2019s 275 outdoor warning sirens will be tested at 1 p.m. Wednesday, March 18 as part of the statewide tornado drill. The sirens are typically tested on the first Saturday of each month from March to November.<\/p>\n

But the state sets aside one day during Severe Weather Awareness Week, March 15 to 21, for the drill. Four tornados touched down on March 6, killing four and injuring many others.<\/p>\n

Statewide tornado drill comes on anniversary of 1976 F4 tornado in Oakland County<\/a><\/p>\n

The drill reminds people to plan how to respond to a flood, lightning strike, tornado or severe thunderstorm and to update or create a family communication plan.<\/p>\n

County officials encourage residents to sign up for their community\u2019s local alert system that sends text messages during emergencies and for the county\u2019s OakAlert notification system at oakgov.com\/emergency-management<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Man recounts close call with tornado in West Bloomfield Township nearly 40 years later<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The county\u2019s 275 outdoor warning sirens will be tested at 1 p.m. Wednesday, March 18 as part of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[73018,101801,94974,101799,143,101800,145,144,634,4349],"class_list":["post-223179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-blizzard","tag-emergency-drill","tag-emergency-siren","tag-michigan-tornado","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-county-tornado","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-severe-weather","tag-tornado"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}