Nuclear sirens were accidentally sounded in LaSalle County Tuesday, officials announced in an alert to the public, stressing that there was no real threat.
County officials issued a press release just after 4 p.m., saying they were aware that nuclear sirens sounded in a 10-mile “emergency planning zone” for the LaSalle Generating Station.
“Officials from LaSalle County and the siren vendor have determined that a piece of faulty equipment sounded the sirens IN ERROR,” the county said. “There is no threat to the public and conditions at the plant are functioning normally. Repeating- there is no threat to the public.”
The sirens came also as the area braced for potentially severe storms and a threat of tornadoes.
The National Weather Service issued a tornado watch for LaSalle and some other counties in Illinois until 11 p.m.
Separately, a severe thunderstorm warning for parts of Grundy, Kendall and LaSalle counties was issued until 5:15 p.m.
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