"With the information you need to protect your home, school, and workplace"--Cover/title pg.
Summary
"When the sirens were silent" tells the gripping story of how things went tragically awry that terrible Sunday afternoon as experienced by people in the path and people in the storm warning center. When the warning system failed and triple-digit fatalities resulted in the many lives taken on May 22, 2011, when 161 people lost their lives in a tornado that caught many residents of Joplin, Missouri, by surprise.
