Tornado sirens across Geary County sounded Tuesday afternoon as a part of the statewide tornado safety drill.

Garry Berges, Geary County Emergency Management Director said that they had zero problems reported during the test.

“From what we can tell the sirens went off in both Junction City, the rural areas, Milford and Grandview Plaza,” said Berges. “We test those every week so no big surprise there.”

Schools also participated in the statewide tornado safety drill and Berges said that Curt Janke, Assistant Emergency Management Director was at one of the schools during the drill.

“By the time the sirens went off and until the kids were where they needed to be was about three minutes, which is pretty good so we were happy about that.”

Because the state of Kansas did see a decrease in the number of total tornado’s last summer the some officials are worried that residents may become careless when it comes to being prepared for a tornado.

“People need to be aware that tornadoes can happen anytime, day or night, or anytime of the year and we need to be ready. That’s one reason why we do the testing like we did today, so people can be prepared and know where to go and what they need to do in the event of severe weather.”

Last year the state had reports of 40 tornadoes when Kansas averages over 100 tornadoes a year.