Tornado siren sound study published in IJDRR

My co-authors, Matt Haffner and Emily Ellis, and I have published a manuscript entitled 'GIS-based modeling of tornado siren sound propagation: refining spatial extent and coverage estimations' in the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. We originally presented this work at the 2016 SWAAG Conference in a poster session (presented by Matt Haffner). The research attempts to spatially model tornado siren sound for Stillwater, Oklahoma using three weather scenarios from the most recent tornado warnings (issued for the city on 9 May 2016, 24 May 2011, and 19 May 2010). This method provides much more realistic estimations of where the sirens are likely to be heard compared to more tradition buffer-based (arbitrary distance) methods. Our results indicate that the siren network in Stillwater performs very well. You can download the complete article here: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2017.04.004