Scary Tornado Sirens & Warnings 

Fact is, tornado sirens are scarier than the real thing.

Hell these can probably scare away the tornado itself

I hate the Amber alert or the flash flood alerts when there on the phone and ure sleeping

I actually live in Kansas and for my family and I this is a normal thing, almost every weekend. After a while you just get used to it. In my town when we do here the siren, everyone goes out on their front porch to make sure there really is a tornado. But yea this is normal for me.

I will never forget it...August 15th,2016 EF5 went over my town and it caused MAJOR wind damage and also...Burnt a church from wires blowing on it and I was a at school and Sirens were scary AF and we were all there in a hallway crying,tears, fear.....

Its a talking siren not creepy. Listen to Chicago's tornado siren.

Me: **pauses the video** Audio: **KEEPS PLAYING**

I remember back in 4th grade my classmates and I would hear this noise every Wednesday once a month and my teacher would say it a tornado siren. She said it’s not much of a problem since it’s just testing to see any volcanos. Now hearing this back reminds me when I first heard it. Edit: I know I’m probably not gonna get likes but just do.

My great uncle was a truck driver. When he got back from a trip, his trailer home was gone from a tornado.

Once apon a time, there was a cloud, the cloud was very nice and kind to all other clouds in Cloud Nation. This was in 1986, the friendly nice and kind cloud is missing. Reports had said that the cloud got drunk and transformed into a Tornado... The end

Texan here. Using this video to get myself ready for severe weather season.

This is the thing with Tornado sirens. They ramp up, and they stay ramped up so you can hear many other sirens, from other counties nearby, or from many miles over, that create this terrible dissonance between each other's sirens in their tones and they combine to make this horrible SCREAM when they are ALL going off at once! It's a terrifying sound, and it means that you ALL have to take shelter in the Southwest Corner of your basement, if you have one! PLEASE be safe! May ALL OF YOU BE SAFE during our horrible Tornado seasons!

Imagine living in Chicago while a tornado is going on (we had a tornado over here in Dallas 2 days ago)

7:57 :D

I live in Georgia and one time I was at school and there was three tornadoes that touched down. We had to eat lunch in the hallway and I got picked up early and I saw one of the tornadoes on the way home, but luckily it didn’t hit us.

i legit think i saw jesuses face (or someone elses face) in the first one

Awsome footage! Thanks for posting this. I would have recorded this too. Although im completely fascinated with severe weather, i would have been slightly discomforted by this one lol

I was told that where i live, (New york) There are rarely tornadoes. There was a really small one that didn't do any damage a while back but still, i get scared when I watch tornado stuff.

I was in Israel for eight months. Six months, I was in Sderot. Rockets and rocket alarms are generally more scary than these things; the sirens and the tornadoes that go with them. These are nothing compared to rockets and having to go into a shrapnel proof bunker, with the explosions being so close to where you are. And the worst thing about that is: there's an eerie feeling that always follows. You are waiting and waiting, but the rockets never come. But when they finally get shot off, they are when least expected. But with tornadoes, you watch as they come and get to shelter, with whatever little buffer you have. But with rockets, you don't know when they are coming and where they're going. You have 15 seconds to get to cover. No prepping; no saving whatever you have. Nothing. That's what makes my experience different from those over here.

We don't have any sirens here. I guess people assume that since we're so accustomed to the crazy amounts of hurricanes and tropical storms here, we don't need sirens. Bullshit if you ask me.

Tornadoes are pretty rare here in Billings, Montana, but on Father's Day in 2010, a tornado hit town. It did a lot of damge to some houses, buisnesses, and more importantly, our arena. Its roof was completely ripped off the top and scattered within a 3 or 4 mile radius. A truck was even dropped inside. No deaths, but one injury.

luckily I've managed to avoid actually being caught by a tornado. However the search and rescue team I volunteered for was called into Joplin... absolutely insane the sheer destructive force that a tornado has and just how quickly it can take away lives.

starts at 0:49

Hearing these sirens must be scary, especially at night. I live in eastern Pennsylvania. Here we get nor'easters, blizzards, severe thunderstorms and occasional tornado watches and warnings. However, nothing like this. Great video!!

I saw a tornado once here in Sabana Grande, Puerto Rico, behind the parking lot of a pharmacy in town/city. The tornado didn't touch ground.

It was scary in the 2nd one to see the sky grow darker, and the trees move from wind more and more...

I don't know why, but as a kid I always found the national weather service's text to speech voices terrifying and still kinda find them creepy to this day

I live in New York so I don’t get tornados that often. I’ve never experienced one actually. Stay safe out there for those who do frequently get tornadoes ✌️

Ughh a FS-2001 i hate these things

Think of taking a relaxing walk in a forest when suddenly you see a storm coming in. And 3 min later you hear that siren. (i have goosebumps)

Facing my fears while hearing this at max w/headphones

Has anyone as a kid fell asleep and woke up to a really bad storm and the powers out so you feel around in the dark to find anyone else at home?

I remember back a while ago I was over at a friends house and it was storming real bad, sirens and all. The only thing was her dog was still outside but the bolt in the door was jammed and we had to bust a window. It was one of the scariest things I’ve ever witnessed.

First one is so damn scary. Heck even the thunder is intense

Way more exciting! Been in 4. I didn’t lose anybody thankfully.

i was in the kent island tornado a couple days ago 😿

When you pause the video and the siren doesn’t stop

That sounds like a weather radio in the background

I live in Indiana and we didn't have a basement OR a storm shelter so what in the hell are you supposed to do exactly? It scares the daylights out of you but........ And I have seen and heard tornadoes and it's incredibly frightening but it's over very quickly.

Florida don't get very big tornadoes but we had one come over our apartment and hit another town close to us and I heard what sounded like jet engines

God why am I watching this so I want to not sleep?

you can here a thunderbolt in the background.

Imagine being in a tornado surrounded by 4 layers of bullet proof glass😱 scary and cool to not get killed and be able to watch

What were the names of the sirens heard in this video?

Scary story: I was just tryna sleep last month, it was around 4am . I was so close to sleeping (with my tv on, yes I do that) and I heard beeping and thought it was just a police siren from the show I was watching or something. After a while it hadn't stopped which irritated me so I was gonna change the channel so I opened my eyes,,. BOOM tsunami warning . I freaked but realised I live in England and we dont get tsunamis ... me and my friends got it to so I wasnt the only one.,, no tsunami happend and I still have no idea what happened that night

Could listen to that for hours

Thank goodness I've never been in Chicago for a tornado siren. I've heard those sound the worst.

Watching this as a tornado is 20 miles away😀

The 1st one, that's my siren. We used to have a test every Wednesday

what are the black dots about on the second one in? I assume measuring or something but a couple whizzed away near the start

5:03 got me spooked.

Omg, i live where there arent tornadoes, so idk what its like! But hearing this? Im glad, and sorry for all of you who do!

when it was summer time in 2017 I went to Florida for the summer visiting my parents and we were out and in the Lanai and there was a tornado touchdown like a mile away or whatever and we could see it in the field and it happened twice and to be honest I didn't see it and he was looking off and I'm like what are you looking at I said he just saw a tornado touchdown I'm like what and he's like yeah. they live back in Michigan now and I'm going down there on the 24th with my grandparents and we're going to fly I love flying the one time we had a night flight it's really pretty

The Chicago siren can probably scare the tornado because it's so scary

I LIVE in Wichita Kansas, and i was about ten when it happened and I didn't stop praying. We were fine though

I used to live in a mobile home about 100 yards from a siren. Talk about LOUD! It sounded like it was inside with us...

At least your town keeps up with the sirens. Some towns are removing tornado sirens saying it's the residents' responsibility for their safety. Not everyone has their phones on them or even has cellphones. It's totally irresponsible and just damn stupid.

Yeesh, I’m honestly glad that I live in the state of Maryland, most of the EAS weather warnings we get here are for blizzards, snow squalls, flash floods, severe thunderstorms, sometimes hurricanes along with tropical storms, wind advisories, etc. We also get tornado warnings, but they mainly affect areas like Ellicott city and Ocean city, which are at least 2-3 hours away from my area Also the mountains tend to either break apart or lower the intensity of severe storms capable of producing tornadoes

This is so scary D;

I never seen a tornado in New Jersey and I never seen a tornado anywhere

What is that tornado siren in the background that sounds faint ?

Why is there a EAS alert from the siren?????

When I was little there was a tornado siren going off and all of us were hiding in the basement. Well my dad decides that it’s a good time to make smoothies so he GOES UPSTAIRS IN THE MIDDLE OF A TORNADO WARNING AND STARTS MAKING SMOOTHIES. I was begging him to come back downstairs because I didn’t want him to die but he just kept on making his damn smoothies. Scariest thing I’ve ever witnessed.

I low key love this

I lived near the siren down from my house. Two years ago Algonquin IL had tornado next town is Huntley IL the sirens going off I took shelter in my basement in the bathroom had my next door best friends neighbor came over used my basement they don't have a basement. Tornado is very scary.

WHAT ARE YOU DOING OUTSIDE??!??!!??!

First clip, why does it seem like the clouds are moving separate of the trees like really drastically.

3:42 That scared me so much I almost vomited

This is what I had to hear for a full week in Oklahoma with everyday a tornado happening

that sounds like a tornado siren that is from dodge city kansas

Thank the Lord I live in Washington State, between the cascades and olympic mountains. I don't have to worry about tornados and hurricanes ever being a thing. I've only experienced one earthquake here in the 15 years I've lived here.

i hate tornados

how is that reflection effect happening? in the window

Why fs not whelens

Dang that's scary :0

I live in tornado alley so tornado sirens are just normal. Like ambulance sirens. But ours talk and sound kinda like a howl.

What siren is this?

I’m happy that I live in a tornado free place.

I found my nostalgia from years ago…

Holy carp that thunder at like 3:04 sounds scareyer then chicos broken siren!!!

What is hitting the window?

A heart attack would get you long before the tornado listening to that guy`s frantic warnings

Siren saying I will be killed by a tornado... instant panic!

C a n a d a y a a a a a I dont wanna live there if there are tornados, my anxiety would go like this 📈 📈 📈 📈

I lived in Wichita, Derby and in Burden Kansas.

Thanks god for our czech General alert sirens

Tornado sirens sound more scary during a storm and I don't know why unless that's just me.

To be honest. This storm was in czech republic before 2 days and i didnt hear any sirens

This gave me the shivers

The first tornado siren is the same where I live it is VERY haunting when you are in my shoes.

I have seen one in ocean city sirens we’re going off everywhere scariest thing in my life.

I am PETRIFIED of tornadoes. anytime they do a test to make sure the sirens work, im down in my basement. i would like to hide in my bathroom, but every room upstairs (included the bathrooms) have windows in them.

when you stop the video and still hear the sounds

I hate those new sirens that sound like ambulances because they are not distinctive enough. I think they got rid of the old ones because where I live, the kids tend to be spoiled, petulant, and neurotic, and the city fathers apparently don't want to scare them unduly. (Why don't they just play the theme from "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood?" That's scary enough!) Bring back the old time, Cold War, "Voice of Doom" siren; that is more appropriate for signalling emergency situations. (If it hadn't been for that ominous, sepulchral wailing one night, I wouldn't have known to alert my parents to grab up our pets and seek shelter in the basement.We only lost a few shingles on our roof, but others in town had severe structural damage to their homes, and two people were killed. However, if the people hadn't been alerted to take cover by that easily recognizable, bone-chilling wail - there might have been more deaths reported because many people think that the new siren is juat an ambulance siren, and only realize that it isn't when it continues to howl; by that time, it might be too late...) Thus, it would be advisable for the city fathers here to restore the old siren, and tell the "little dears" to "grow up" (figuratively) by getting accustomed to its eerie sound; otherwise, they may not live to grow up - literally...

federal signal 2001 and thunderbolt 1000t on lowest chopper setting

I hear a federal signal 2001 going off with some other lower tone siren I can't make out.

8:21 Ayyye, Harvey County! It's a good thing they replaced that old, beat up eows 812, am i rite? ;p

Everybody gangsta until the video ends and you still hear the siren

They didn’t even bother with the sirens during Irma. They would just send out phone alerts “Tornado Watch. Seek Shelter Till Further Notice”. Most of the ones we got in my area were quite small. They ripped up some small trees and threw small objects around but that’s about it. Honestly more cool than scary in that case. Let’s face it, Irma was weak on the east coast.

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