Tornado sirens here in Louisville are pretty eerie too. Extremely eerie. If there was a thick fog though, I'd be terrified sitting there with those kind of sirens going off.
The funny thing is, The sirens that Hawaii has been installing for the last 15 years or so, nearly all of them have the ability to make announcements, and that's a feature you have to pay extra for. It beats me why most places around Hawaii don't bother to use it.
We've got sirens like that here. The up-down is attack mode. It's harder to hear the voice when you farther away, but even at about a half mile, you can hear it outdoors. I'm close enough to one to hear the voices clearly inside with all the doors and windows closed! It gets your attention in one heck of a hurry!
@Ratmaster100 There's a song called "Never gonna give you up" by a guy named Rick. There's a joke going around where people's expectations are built up to hear or see something important, then the song is played, and that's called "Rickrolling".
i love sirens. that would be kool if it had a rock remix and played music and talked. What kind of a siren was that? was it a mixture of fs modulators and whelen vortex/4004? sounds like a Whelen to me
Awesome!! I am a skywarn spotter up here in Seattle and I would get goosebumps hearing that live!!!!! I lived in Houston for a year and got woke up once to a traditional siren.... Great vid!!
I lived in Boulder Co for sometime, and they had a similar system. When the city would test the sirens you would hear at the end " THIS HAS BEEN AN EMERGENCY SYSTEM TEST!!!" all across the city.
I live in Minnesota and we have that voice too. It's a chick's voice if it's just a test, and a guy's if it's real. It's kinda creepy, but having lived all my life a block away from the siren itself, I got used to it pretty quick. I love storms and tornados =D
I had just moved to this area of ft worth and had never heard sirens like these before. I have heard them about 6 more times since i recorded this video
Amen there! I am too, but if I see a storm is near my house, I'm taking shelter and will report it when it's safe. I've never had one near me (thank God) but still.
We have those sirens in our city - got them with a nice Homeland Security grant back in 2005 or so. They have the exact same "Voice of God" as these do - and, man, the one time they went off when a tornado touched down near the downtown area, it scared the HELL out of me!
When you live in places that frequently storms like this, a tornado generally becomes just another part of the storm. I miss the Thunderbolt sirens, here in Oklahoma we have the Whelen's....I personally think they suck, I cant hear them from inside my house like I could with the Thunderbolts.
we got air raid sirens at a nearby air force base that talk and tell the airmen what to do and when it goes off late at night from afar... scary as hell. lol awesome video!
I love it when my siren goes off at 7 PM everyday (for a test), I live on the east coast and I am moving to Texas next year! I am so excited because I LOVE tornadoes and tornado sirens! :P I am moving to Dallas
This Whelen Siren Background, was a higher sound like talking says: "This is Tornado Warning, Please Shelter immediately". There in Metroplex in Dallas and Fort Worth Area was back in April 2007.
If I heard that I would be really scared. We apparently have those around where I live, but I've never heard the talking part. usually I'm hitting the shelter before they go off. if that went off at night, I'd be more scared of the initial shock of the warning than I would be the storm
Yeah, sounds pretty eerie to me too! Hearing the sirens and then that echoing voice seemingly coming through the clouds. But, that's tornado territory for you!
We have those here in Shoshone County, Idaho, except they are for tornado, thunderstorm, floods, and "snow squalls". They are freeky when they do go off.
"THIS IS THE VOICE OF GOD. YOU ARE GOING TO DIE IN 5 MINUTES." Freaky!!! I have never heard tornado sirens. We don't have them in Western Oregon, because we don't get tornadoes. This would scare the $#!+ out of me... especially if they started talking! When it was all over, I'd be packing my stuff in the car and headed back to Oregon in a matter of hours. Crazy video! Thanks for posting.
I think the talking sirens are awesome. Not creepy at all! I think it is really cool! That way, you know why they are going off if you can't see the sky already. I wish our FS 2001's did that! I remember a few years ago they just installed the FS 2001's and then they mandated that all new sirens must talk. Well they replaced all the old Tbolts and 2/3T22s with the 2001's so I doubt we'll get any new talking ones anywhere anytime soon.
I was just wondering if there is anything in place other than feeling vibrations for hearing impaired to be notified of tornado if not near a tv/ computer ?
I live near Hulen Mall in South Fort Worth, and remember that night well! It got even worse for me because the storm knocked out our electricity from early evening till 3 in the morning.
So, when I saw this was from Crowley, I did a little research and and found out that these sirens are in fact Federal Signal Modulators. I must say, these sure do get the job done!
I live right down the block from a park with a tornado siren and it went off before but ive never actually heard the "seek shelter immediately" message come out of it
@acdcrocker2009 The dialing noise is the signal from the controller telling the sirens to do a certain function. When you hear it over the FC sirens it's the controller telling the sirens to rotate 90 degrees to make another announcement in a different direction. I have a video from Westerville of one of their sirens being tested and it does both the voice and the dialing DTMF noise.
I live in Athens, GA and we have one that talks. Or we used to...I don't know if it got replaced or not because it hasn't been used in a while. But yeah, it's the eeriest thing hearing that siren and then the disembodied voice...
NO. These are Whelen WPS 2900 series sirens. Whelens tone has been raised on the WPS series voice/sirens to driver blowouts. The old low pitch tone was bad on the driver units then going into voice they would sometimes blow out.
Theres sirens in Marshall county Alabama that also talk but they say it differently. The ones in Albertville just make noise, but the ones in Boaz, Horton, and I do believe Guntersville alabama talk. Ive heard the ones talk at my aunts in Horton before.
Yeah here in Columbus, Ohio they test them every wednesday at noon. Sometimes they talk which freaks me out. Other times they'll play like a phone dial noise. It's really weird.
I this tornado warning was issued on April 24th, 2007 for southern tarrant county (my location). No tornado ever formed but the cell i am filming was capable of producing a tornado....these were amazing cloud formations.
most likely they were all omnidirectional. Some omni whelens still spit out dtmf, but i always thought that was because the older horn ones were also being used in the same group.
That's the unfortunate part. When the county, city, or whatever replaced all the old ones the did sort of what I'd call a "mass replacement" where all at once they replaced all the old Tbolts and 2/3T22's at once and then a year later they mandated the talking ones. Since practically all of them were replaced at once and in good working order I doubt we'll get any talking ones anytime soon. I wish we had the ones in the video though, they sound cool.
Are tornado sirens in Murfreesboro Tennessee also talks. I find it very amusing because all it says is that a tornado has been spotted close to this area and to take cover immediately.
No, it's already been established that it's a Modulator. Crowley, TX has all Federal Signal MOD6024s with MCP controls. Whelen Vortexes don't have the voice capability, only WPS-4000s and 2900s.
Man I always thought about that concept sirens that talk and sound like the guy off the wizard of oz with the echoing voice, at least you know what kind of warning it is and not just a fire, or air raid though we have not had one in decades.
it would be scary enough to be near a tornado, but it'd only makes matters worse when some really creepy alarm like this is telling you that a tornado is coming, especially if its midnight and ur asleep
Usually the tornado sirens are sounded for a tornado warning which means a tornado has either been spotted by local law enforcement or a trained spotter or Doppler radar has detected one. You don't necessarily have to take cover, but usually when you hear them it is advised to do so.
