EVERTON -- Some residents in Dade County are upset  that storm sirens didn't sound in their town Wednesday night despite a tornado warning that covered the entire county.

The National Weather service issued a tornado warning for Dade County at 6:16 p.m. Wednesday evening.

But Everton's Linda Prichard never heard a siren go off in her town.  "Sirens never went off," she said, shaking her head.

Meanwhile, 15 miles west in Greenfield, sirens were blaring.

Dade County Emergency Management director Bob Kitsmiller said that's because the Weather Service and television stations, like KY3, were tracking storm cells -- using polygons -- near that specific area. 

"If the polygon is in the northside of the county, we don't necessarily activate the sirens in the south part of the county," said Kitsmiller.

Kitsmiller said the only other way he'll ok sirens is if storm spotters report a funnel cloud touching down.

"We don't turn the sirens on in thunderstorms," he said.

While it's true the entire county was under a tornado warning, Kitsmiller argued that setting off the sirens too often everywhere is like crying wolf.

"They do that three or four times and the next time, they come through, they don't even take to shelter to protect themselves," Kitsmiller explained.

Prichard thinks that's a bad policy.

"I think they're wrong there, I really do. Because when you have elderly people in wheelchairs, people with Parkinsons, they have to have more than just five minutes warning, because they can't get to shelter," she said.

The damage of previous storms is still evident all around Everton, and Prichard points on that on Tuesday, when the weather was a bit worse, a friend had to take things into her own hands.

"She argued with somebody to try to get them to set them off. And they finally set them off," Prichard explained.

But Kitsmiller said that if people feel in danger -- no matter what the warning -- they should seek shelter.

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