Having survived the threatening ten minute tornado warning, I would like to consider the safety precautions taken by Wittenberg University and Clark county. The emergency email sent out to the campus of Wittenberg included coverage from News Center 7 and it says, "There are no tornado sirens in that area, so residents are being instructed to take cover immediately."
Hmm..So if I'm not checking my email during class I won't be informed of these severe weather conditions? The only reason we sought shelter was because someone had checked their cell phone during class and had received the emergency text from Chief Loney. Not everyone is signed up for this service and we are not supposed to have cell phones in class. Obviously, we aren't tuned in to the weather channel either. We took precaution and moved to Ness auditorium, since it is an enclosed space with no windows, yet the class in Ness was unaware of any situation happening at all.

This comes directly from Chief Jamey Barnett of the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau of the United States FCC regarding "Multiple Technologies to Bring Alerts and Warnings to the Public":

It is absolutely critical that members of the public have access to timely and accurate emergency alerts and warnings about impending disasters and other emergencies.
One of our top priorities at the FCC has been and continues to be ensuring that all Americans have the capability to receive timely and accurate alerts, warnings, and critical information regarding emergencies, irrespective of the communication technologies that they use or have in hand.

The conditions are clearly not being met in the Miami Valley, Ohio area. However, Clark County Emergency Management Agency has implemented the W.A.R.N. (Wide Area Rapid Notification) system, to notify citizens who have signed up for the emergency notifications. This was only found after thorough research and am still trying to locate the situation with the sirens, the most basic informative alert system. What positive measures can we take to better handles these kinds of serious situations?

What if there really had been a tornado? I think it is something we need to take a bit more seriously and do some investigating for the safety of ourselves and those around us.