Purdue University’s Emergency Preparedness and Planning Office will offer a campuswide voluntary tornado drill and conduct a test of the Purdue ALERT at 10:15 a.m. Tuesday (March 15).
Campuswide tornado drill set for Tuesday (March 16)
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue University’s Emergency Preparedness and Planning Office will conduct a campuswide voluntary tornado drill at 10:15 a.m. Tuesday (March 16).
The test is part of the National Weather Service’s “Severe Weather Preparedness Week (March 14-20),” as designated by Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb. The National Weather Service, in conjunction with statewide agencies, will test communication systems around the state.
As part of Purdue’s test, multiple warning systems will be activated at 10:15 a.m. Tuesday. The systems that will be activated include the All Hazard Outdoor Emergency Warning Sirens (intended to warn those outdoors only), text messaging, Twitter (@purdueemergency), desktop popup alert, alert beacon activation, some digital signs and the Boiler TV Emergency Alerting System layers of the Purdue Alert notification system. More information on the voluntary drill can be found on the Emergency