does anyone know how people were warned of tornadoes in the early 1900's? Like, 1910 for example?

This sounds ridiculous but I have been looking all over the internet for how people were warned about tornadoes in 1910. I am in a creative writing class and one of my characters is a boy who lived in Kansas in 1910. There’s a part where he says he saw tornadoes but i can’t really go on anymore about that because I don’t know how people were warned when they were coming. In the story he just says that they had to pay attention to the sky and the weather patterns and that the bell ringer for the church would start frantically ringing the church bells to signal for people to take cover and they had to hope that it wouldn’t come in the middle of the night. (he lived in a small town).

If I’m not able to find the info on how they were really warned, I’m just going to go with that, but I would really like to be adequate. If they were warned some other way in the early 1900′s then I really would like to know.

Thanks

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