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Kirksville residents should use more than one severe-weather warning method, combining official NWS warnings with phone alerts, City notifications and an indoor backup such as NOAA Weather Radio.
A resilient Kirksville household communication plan combines 911 and non-emergency dispatch, City alerts, cellular calls and texts, NOAA Weather Radio, offline information and optional licensed amateur radio.
During a Kirksville power outage, cell service, radio and some provider networks may keep working temporarily, but home routers, VoIP phones and other customer equipment stop unless they have backup power.
Kirksville has no local WSR-88D radar; regional NEXRAD sites view the area from more than 100 miles away, which means the lowest radar beam is already well above the ground by the time it reaches town.
Kirksville residents can enroll in the City's current AlertSense system for selected emergency, weather and community notifications by choosing contact methods, a location and notification groups.
Amateur radio can provide a supporting severe-weather communications layer in Kirksville, but it does not replace 911, National Weather Service warnings or public alert systems.
Kirksville and Adair County residents can program NOAA Weather Radio with SAME code 029001 and test the La Plata and Lancaster transmitters to see which signal is reliable at their location.