3T22 Alert/Attack Test 

God, I love the haunting, chill sound of the two-tone sirens they made like this in the old days. The newer stuff doesn't really put that same scare into me.

Grew up about a mile from this siren.... gives me chills of excitement every time I hear it!! You don't hear sirens like this anymore!

I need that as a doorbell

To the many dislikes, why'd you even bother watching the video in the first place? Nothing will ever beat a 1950s Federal Signal siren, no matter how scared you get by hearing it.

This is why Vault-Tec is here to protect your future!

Still sounds better than a Justin Bieber song

This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang But with a fucking siren.

1:00 Siren Starts. 2:01 Siren Stops Again. 3:00 Test Again. 3:09 Slow Down Speed Up. 3:21 Slow Down Speed Up. 3:33 Slow Down Speed Up. 3:45 Slow Down Speed Up. 3:57 Test Over.

Best siren in my opinion. Too bad Federal Signal discontinued them sometime in the early 1990s. These sirens such as this one, the 2T22, the SD-10, Thunderbolt, and all others date back to the early-mid 1950s, during the Cold War.

the horn sounds like the people that come and cut ur grass

Who knew that a B Flat Major Chord could be so damn terrifying.

this is the only sound that truly scars the shit out of me...

Sounds like the THX logo starts playing and then messes up in the middle and then fades with the them playing extremely slowly in reverse.

I need that in my truck

Omfg this is crazy I just realized that these were outside of my elementary school! I always thought it was a fancy birdhouse!

Imagine just watching a nuclear bomb falling off the sky and sirens like this going on. What would you guys do?

Good to see a town that takes care of their equipment AND runs a proper test. This siren looks like it has been painted recently. I also like the fact that the timer solinoid is set for a two seconds cut / ten seconds power in attack mode. It looks & performs like new.

The one sounds i dont want to hear in actual use in my lifetime. Especially during wartime.

Macaroni and cheese on a tower.

I want one of these on my balcony. I'll use it whenever i notice my neighbor not picking up after his dog poops on the sidewalk.

It was so loud were I was recording, I was worried that it would affect the mic, but it turned out fairly well! Thank you Brandon, Dan, Andy, and Evan for your comments so far!

Me who’s taking a music test: hears a b flat major Music teacher: starts running out of the room Me: hey why is there a mushroo-

3T22s are a piece of history and people don’t realize it. They think that “new technology” can outdo old technology like the Electronic siren or T-128, 2001s, and other pieces of trash. These sirens need to be restored. Thank you all.

Sound of my childhood. My hometown has this exact siren. Absolutely chills, and mild terror, when it was camping up!

This is the "Should have I been more religious?" sound.

Why does only 2 horns have the solenoids? That sucks.

I just spent five minutes of my lifetime finding a tornado siren on Google Earth. I'm proud of myself.

Dude that Alarm Is Scary As Fuck

my grandma needs this as doorbell

At the end of the world, this will be the last sound we will hear.

Living in tornado alley and hearing this go off is one of the worst feelings I have ever felt in my lifetime

At 4:35 it sounds like a dying airplane! 😂😂😂

Fuck i have no life

Warning you have now entered silent hill

This is the "Your about to fucking die" sound.

Anybody who watched the day after knows this siren.

When I was a kid, I used to think these were bird houses.... Well, they could be when they're not in use!

In case someone's interested: when the sound is at it's high peak it's a B major triad chord tuned to approximately 432 Hz, or as I like to call it, the Pantera tuning.

This reminds me of my time in Kuwait back in 2009 during my time in the US Navy. We'd have to hear this every Thursday Night about 8 pm at our base. And god forbid they're about to execute a drill... "Attention on the base! Attention on the base! *EXERCISE EXERCISE EXERCISE!!!* (1:00) *INCOMING!!! INCOMING!!! TAKE COVER NOW!!!*" The siren would continue to wail while we would get into our bunkers and wait until the sirens would stop wailing and then, " *ALL CLEAR! BEGIN RECOVERY PROCEDURES!* " Good times in the desert... I don't miss them, but I'll always remember them. Not to mention, having to sit in a bunker between 20 to 45 minutes listening to the siren over and over again, sitting out in the heat of the afternoon with temperatures around 125... just to take roll!

I was with a church group about a year ago and we were across the street from the towns fire station that had this model siren. It went off and I looked at my watch and it said it was the noon sound off. It was just a quick Alert blast. All the kids in the group were startled but a lot were from small towns like the one we were in so they were fine. I then proceeded to amaze them with my knowledge of Sirens.

THAT SIREN SURE IS LOUD! I'M THINKING OF DOWNLOADING ONE OF THESE FOR MY ALARM CLOCK...

2:02 God that sound gets REALLY scary when you hear it when it's low pitched

We have this kind at my fire department. Can hear it all over town. Even though we have pagers and now Response Apps it's still nice to hear that siren sound.

Wow. A siren test almost has a *million* views. 950,278th viewer, though.

In France they put this alarm every first wednesday of each month at noon in every city of the country so you hear tons of alarms from all around screaming at the same time it's annoying ^^.

There's just something excitingly haunting about raid sirens..

Here in Columbus, Georgia there have been like 3 tornados and 2 tornado watches sooo ive heard this alot in school

This was the video that sparked my interest in sirens. Thank you for showing me how awesome sirens are

I've heard this a decent amount if times when I lived in Minnesota, if you heard it in the non scheduled time every 3rd Wednesday of the month then you knew get inside or a shelter because a serve storm or tornado was coming in the area. Or if you were like me, you'd stand outside in crazy heavy rain/lite hail, 30-50mph winds, and lots of lightning because it was exciting

The 3T22 is my favorite siren. The sound of the 3T22 siren is so beautiful and it is music to my ears.

You know this thing is effective when just the TEST gives you massive anxiety and makes you want to literally hide.

This siren and an eas tone, name a more iconic duo, I’ll wait

omg dude imagine wakeing up to that

In Sweden they test them, every Monday! Each mouth. If it's in a other day it's over for Sweden

Oddly enough this is the type of siren on the local fire station where I grew up and it still runs to this day

That's literally the scariest sound of my life. Just think about it, when I hear this one day out of the ordinary, for me I just have a flashback of all my memories and just think that the world is over for me. Who else agrees?

I paused the video but I'm still hearing it....

Its so fucking scary how it drops at times omfg

Damn!!!!! That sound brings back memories of my 1980s childhood, from when I lived in Temple, Tx. Every Sat. Or Sun. at 11:00AM, the city tested the siren for functionality, and this one sounds exactly like it.

this is the "you are about to die" sound

OJ and Charles Manson just broke out of prison sound the alarm

I was at this one today. It’s still sounding as healthy as ever

This gives me the shivers.

starts at 1:00

we got one in our town it sounds like a vacuum cleaner LOL

Scary shit. Makes my blood run cold....

4:20-4:43, sounds like beautiful straight pipe jake brakes.

Sounds better than other alarms!

Nicely done. The fire department had one of these in use in Rison, Arkansas, and I believe it may still be in use today. Was there not too long ago for a short visit in 2013, but I don't recall looking at it on the tower. Short-term memories are a little fuzzy at best for me lately.

I honestly thought this was the THX sound.

This siren in Attack Mode sounds very similar to siren that goes off in Spielberg's War of the Worlds shortly after the Ferry attack.

The powering up and powering down is the most terrifying part to me

Yesterday I peed my self because Theas nuclear bomb alarms went off with out doing the voice that says this is only a test please do not panic.

Sounds like a hormonica

I can't thank you enough for uploading this. 8 years ago as of 2023 this video has got me interested in sirens.

goood for pranking my family and friends lol

*_WARNING. WARNING. JUSTIN BIEBER HAS ENTERED THIS TOWN. I REPEAT. JUSTIN BIEBER HAS ENTERED THE TOWN. ALL RESIDENTS HAVE ONE HOUR TO EVACUATE THE CITY._*

It doesn't start until 1:00 ..... You're welcome...

This siren doesn't just mean that you are going to die, it also can serve as a fire siren.

Might be a tornado siren used as a 3T22 siren, but if I hear this sound, then I’ll go to my basement room and take shelter immediately

Damn do not want to wake up to that.....

Yeah this is definitely the natural disaster alarm.

Grew up hearing this in my dusty little southern Arizona town. Air Force bases all around us and instead of civil defense some genius at the fire department kept turning it on every time there was a fire.

The world doesn't end with a bang, it ends with a fecking siren. This scares the absolute shit out of me.

My next alarm clock

what is the name and model. of this siren if known?

Where I live, they test the sirens the first Saturday of every month at exactly 12 noon. I'll never get used to it. What sucks is my bedroom window is 350 feet away. Over here it is used to alert the fire department. We have a magnesium casting plant here in town and every time their fire system gets a little hot it triggers an alarm.

Re-visiting years later... still rocking🤘

This is my favorite sound siren

Hey, this is like not even a mile from my house.

It's so satisfying hearing it fade in and fade out, I don't know why.

imagine how many people panicked because they did not know it was just a test

I am gonna make a siren

I love that sound!!

This just freaks me out, this is the only sound I don’t wanna hear in real life ever, it makes me feel cold and I’m watching it on youtube

FYI this siren is still here and tests monthly. The paint is definitely faded but it still sounds epic! Great video. Rip thunderbolts. Keep it up. 😊

I'm in canada and we don't have these

So Scary........

This is the siren from Modern Warfare 2019 when a Tactical Nuke is called in

Dad: Dentists aren't scary.. Kid from the other room: 3:00