Bartholomew County emergency officials are reviewing Friday night’s storm warnings to figure out why the tornado sirens did not sound in time.

Shannan Hinton, the county’s emergency management director, says that the sirens were delayed even though the system has redundant means of notification to alert dispatchers that the sirens need to be triggered.

She said that residents should use multiple means to keep themselves informed during bad weather including the county’s Everbridge alert system, weather radio and monitoring severe weather alerts from radio and television.

You can sign up for Everbridge alerts online at bartholomew.in.gov or by calling 812-379-1500.

Hinton said that suspected straight-line winds caused a nearly mile-wide path of destruction that stretched for about 14 miles. The winds are estimated to have been up to 90 mph.