It's not just for nuclear attacks in most cases. My county will use sirens to summon firefighters, ems personnel, warn of a tornado, and also use sirens to warn of emergencies at the nearby electrical plants.
Huntington Beach, Long Beach and Newport beach all have working and monthly tested coastal sirens, I live in Huntington beach and they go off on the last friday of every month
Dazzalinco1 Usually testing is cancelled on days of potential threat. Even if they're not, the testing is done at the same time every time, so if it sounded again outside the test window, people would at least be alerted to look into it. Leading into that is the 3rd thing, cell phones, TV, and radio can all also be used to keep the public alerted. Sirens are just a peice of the puzzle. Not the only part.
11:45AM on the first Business Day of the month is the test time given out by HIEMA. Any other times it's either the real deal, or some stupid gecko short circuited the circuit board.
I remember hearing the tsunami siren often on the 1st of every month. I lived in Hawaii and heard it about 30 times. I never heard the nuclear one though; I was on a military base. For some reason, this siren is considered very scary, I was scared of it the first few times and after an incident when they went off for an active shooter. However, it was on a different base, which my base had a connected siren system to, and since I was at friend's house with her and my sister (And no adults to tell us it was ok) we went into a school-style lockdown, hiding in the kitchen which had no windows. That experience was *SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO* fun.
- I was career Air Force, stationed at Chanute AFB, Illinois, around 1985. Friday at 1:30 pm was the routine weekly test of the alert sirens - PEACETIME. This was the wavering tone you hear in the video above. One nice, sunny day, I am sitting at my desk, and the sirens went off..Friday, 1:30 pm, but it was the ATTACK warning siren. WHAT THE ACTUAL F*CK!!! I immediately called the Wing Command post, to let them know that some dummy had pushed the wrong button. Oops. Weirdly, no one else even had a second thought about this, and this was a military base!!! I can only wonder what would happen in a city. Would most simply ignore an attack warning siren? I think so.
MrScottie68 In Wisconsin at least our sirens are still tested and used regularly. Mainly the first one, which is used for severe weather, but a few times a year we do get the alternating wail that indicates an attack.
For the people who don't know why the Nuclear Attack Warning tone is now being tested again, it was from North Korean missile launches launching over Japan and missing Japan 1200 miles off the coast. It is now being tested in case any other country either decides to do the exact same thing or if North Korea attempts to yet again fire a missile.
Is it at noon? That's common in small towns across the US. Usually it's the siren that calls out the volunteer firefighters. If it's an actual emergency, the siren cycles up and down multiple times. If it's the "noon whistle," the siren alert is shorter - usually just one cycle. Technically, it's not a test. It's more of a community timekeeping thing... just letting the town know it's midday (like how, in cities, a clock tower with a bell might strike the hours). It's more of a tradition than anything (but you're right that it also, as a side effect, tests the system).
Imagine how badly the neclear attack warning scared some people because it hasn’t been played since the Cold War... a lot of people wouldn’t recognize it and think it was the apocalypse
In germany, we all have the old air raid sirens from the cold war (1957-present) which go off saturdays every two weeks, they are being used to warn from the fire department rolling out to a fire but thats a different signal, meanwhile the air raid siren is constantly whining sound going up and down. Air raid signal is really scary, if it wasn't a drill.
I’m so used to hearing these, it sounds like a pen drop to the floor with me computer at 100. I capture sirens here a lot to post on my TH-cam, so I couldn’t be more used the sound ;)
Kinda scary when you realise that when you ever get to hear that sound and there is a nuke coming for you you get to listen to that menacing sound until your face gets one with the sidewalk.
The nuclear attack tone is the same tone we have here in Washington for if Mt Rainier erupts. They used to make this sound but their test tone is now an automated church bell style chime
The siren you're talking about is a common siren used around the US; the Federal Q. It comes in different pitches for different vents, such as this one for a nuclear attack.
I literally heard the nuclear one when I was at Pearl Harbor looking at the ships like at 3 AM and when I hear it I literally see fighter jets and phalanx ciws's aim in the sky and start firing holy that was scary
The Broadmoor hospital escape sirens are tested every monday at ten am. I used to live near one. You get used to them. And broadmoor has a lot of insane criminals there. Including the yorkshire ripper, and even had one of the Krays there at one point
I was flying into Hawaii the day this vid was taken... my family thought that we would have to listen to it in our hotel room but we didn’t get there til afterwards.
Since seeing content about Russia invading Ukraine, I figured I should learn what the place I live’s own siren for missile attacks sounds like. I’m gonna replay this maybe 100 times to get it memorized so I know what it means if it goes off.
Kinda sp00ky that about a month after this video was uploaded/siren was tested, they then experienced the whole incoming ballistic missile false alarm fiasco 🤨😬
A siren’s main purpose is to sound when there’s something outside that can kill you. While they sound for things like nuclear attacks, that’s not it’s main purpose.
CivilDefenseTransmitter I’m pretty sure they get way more tsunami’s than nuclear strikes in Hawaii... this isn’t the 1950’s anymore where we have a drill every day
Not once in my life have I ever heard a nuke warning drill from outdoor sirens. I've lived in DC, Miami, LA, and the Bay Area, too. What's the explanation behind this???
I'm in North Dakota and we hear these during tornado season.... NUKE season? with all the Minuteman missile silos here, this would be the last thing anyone hears.
The Hawaii Siren sounds very Erie because I don't hear them as often I'm only from North East in NJ by Atlantic Ocean but I think Wildwood Crest NJ or Atlantic city NJ has the same Model as Hawaii does but the other day I did hear the Siren go off for a Minute for a Noon Test but in the my Town in New Milford NJ my Fire Department has Gamewell Diaphones for Fire calls for Fire and Rescue and Noon test but unfortunately we only use it for Fire calls for Company 1 down at the Fire house Company 2 has a Federal Siren use for Fire signal but there its short round not like how Long Island NY in large cities are with horns and Sirens
Washington State has these. They use them every 4 hours. Then the Air Force & Army goes into action with there bombs, guns, and other shit. Foet Lewis & Joint Base Lewis McCHORD
Why would they need to test the nuclear attack signal when in modern days no one has to worry about sounding their nuclear attack signal when no one uses nukes
It's actually a FedSig MOD-3024H, not a 3012. The 3024H is a compact version of the 6024 and is rated at 119db(A) at 30m/100ft. You can identify them by looking at the ID tag on the inactive/dummy cell.
my town uses the nuclear warning siren when there is fires haha
Sqwiggs so does mine
Your town doesn't happen to have a nuclear plant nearby? Cuz if so, that might make some sense.
Sqwiggs rip
It's not just for nuclear attacks in most cases. My county will use sirens to summon firefighters, ems personnel, warn of a tornado, and also use sirens to warn of emergencies at the nearby electrical plants.
same, western Pennsylvania is all like this. We'll never know if the world is ending or if someone just burned a house down
The air raid nuclear attack siren is one of the scariest sounds ever imo
Shouldn’t California have these?
tom__eddsworld there is one in Riverdale but it had seen better days
We have them but they look like they've never been used and long since abandoned. My mother said she hasn't heard them test since the 60s.
Los Angeles has SD-10's and B&N Mobile Directo's and San Francisco Has HPSS-16's
Yes they should because where I live I saw a couple sirens like a Sth 10 a 2001 Srn and a dc and a modular 2008 and a 6024
Huntington Beach, Long Beach and Newport beach all have working and monthly tested coastal sirens, I live in Huntington beach and they go off on the last friday of every month
How bad would it be if on the exact day of testing a tsunami was detected?
Dazzalinco1 Usually testing is cancelled on days of potential threat. Even if they're not, the testing is done at the same time every time, so if it sounded again outside the test window, people would at least be alerted to look into it. Leading into that is the 3rd thing, cell phones, TV, and radio can all also be used to keep the public alerted. Sirens are just a peice of the puzzle. Not the only part.
11:45AM on the first Business Day of the month is the test time given out by HIEMA. Any other times it's either the real deal, or some stupid gecko short circuited the circuit board.
Then they should send a second alert out.
They would tell you this is not a drill
I often thought just how a terrorist would time the blast to go off at noon on the 3rd...
THX. Just keep the 2 sounds in my mind.
I remember hearing the tsunami siren often on the 1st of every month. I lived in Hawaii and heard it about 30 times. I never heard the nuclear one though; I was on a military base. For some reason, this siren is considered very scary, I was scared of it the first few times and after an incident when they went off for an active shooter. However, it was on a different base, which my base had a connected siren system to, and since I was at friend's house with her and my sister (And no adults to tell us it was ok) we went into a school-style lockdown, hiding in the kitchen which had no windows. That experience was *SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO* fun.
- I was career Air Force, stationed at Chanute AFB, Illinois, around 1985. Friday at 1:30 pm was the routine weekly test of the alert sirens - PEACETIME. This was the wavering tone you hear in the video above. One nice, sunny day, I am sitting at my desk, and the sirens went off..Friday, 1:30 pm, but it was the ATTACK warning siren. WHAT THE ACTUAL F*CK!!! I immediately called the Wing Command post, to let them know that some dummy had pushed the wrong button. Oops. Weirdly, no one else even had a second thought about this, and this was a military base!!! I can only wonder what would happen in a city. Would most simply ignore an attack warning siren? I think so.
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0:02 - 0:51 Sounds like someone playing DOORS on Roblox when stepping on Snare on greenhouse on alert
Good for some earrape
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Your gaddam right
I hear this every month it isnt that loud
Now the other 49 states have to also bring back civil defense and start educating the public....being prepared can never be looked down upon!
MrScottie68 In Wisconsin at least our sirens are still tested and used regularly. Mainly the first one, which is used for severe weather, but a few times a year we do get the alternating wail that indicates an attack.
theres only one or two sirens in my state. but its on the western side of the state and im on the eastern part
ny does we test all everyday at 12 pm
Phoenix AZ doesn't have any sirens.
Thats because you don't have commie libtards imposing this shit on you. This is waste of money.
For the people who don't know why the Nuclear Attack Warning tone is now being tested again, it was from North Korean missile launches launching over Japan and missing Japan 1200 miles off the coast. It is now being tested in case any other country either decides to do the exact same thing or if North Korea attempts to yet again fire a missile.
Yeah but this is Hawai'i
@ItsFrixionn yea, and it's cuz they think it's gonna get launched closer to the U.S, which is why they are testing it monthly
I used the Wailing tone as my alarm. Woke me up good.
My town tests the air raid sirens every day
A bit too safe. That could be dangerous
You probably have a siren that’s been always tested by a kid
Rip
DJ Quack How??
Is it at noon? That's common in small towns across the US. Usually it's the siren that calls out the volunteer firefighters. If it's an actual emergency, the siren cycles up and down multiple times. If it's the "noon whistle," the siren alert is shorter - usually just one cycle. Technically, it's not a test. It's more of a community timekeeping thing... just letting the town know it's midday (like how, in cities, a clock tower with a bell might strike the hours). It's more of a tradition than anything (but you're right that it also, as a side effect, tests the system).
I remember hearing these when I lived in town and I used to think they where a building next door testing their fire alarm for some reason
I'm filming a siren test in Hawaii, up close so getting prepared to feel the loudness of these beasts!!
what type
thunderbolt or modulator
Nuke warning alarm.... Let me just go to my nuke secure bu... oh wait... WELL thanks for the warning anyway
I love how the beginning sounds a little like that Hawaiian instrument x)
lol
Beat it, the Cold War NEVER ENDED
Yeah,beat it!!
Well the cold war with the Soviet union ended. But now there is a cold war with China
@@gentlebabarian cold war 2
Imagine how badly the neclear attack warning scared some people because it hasn’t been played since the Cold War... a lot of people wouldn’t recognize it and think it was the apocalypse
In Greece, the nuclear attack warning is used in electromechanical sirens to warn for incoming air attacks in general
The nuclear alarm sounds scary af. If I heard that on a trip to Hawaii, I would definitely shit myself...
😂 Yeah.
Dam been to Hawaii on a different day and month not at the months first day
In germany, we all have the old air raid sirens from the cold war (1957-present) which go off saturdays every two weeks, they are being used to warn from the fire department rolling out to a fire but thats a different signal, meanwhile the air raid siren is constantly whining sound going up and down. Air raid signal is really scary, if it wasn't a drill.
"Every two weeks" - what area in Germany are you referring to?
@@zentkd4525 Saarland, here they go off every month on the 2nd saturday
I explained it a bit bad in the comment on top
That's a Federal Signal Modulator 3012.
Exactly.
I was just about to google that, thank you for the comment
yea it is a modulator 3012
AnEAShasbeenissued thanks mr obvious (I already knew that)
A green one
These hurt my ears, even when my laptop's sound is only at 4...
I’m so used to hearing these, it sounds like a pen drop to the floor with me computer at 100. I capture sirens here a lot to post on my TH-cam, so I couldn’t be more used the sound ;)
I live in Florida near the air Force Base and there's nuclear attack alarms,there loud af and they spin
Anybody else wish the Nuclear was in Alternative Wail like in Chicago?
Yea that would be awesome
Yes that would be funny/terrifying, but it just wouldn't be quite the same seeing as these are modulator 3012's and not EOWS 612's
Chicago uses modulators
Kinda scary when you realise that when you ever get to hear that sound and there is a nuke coming for you you get to listen to that menacing sound until your face gets one with the sidewalk.
The nuclear attack tone is the same tone we have here in Washington for if Mt Rainier erupts. They used to make this sound but their test tone is now an automated church bell style chime
I love the electronic sounding ones.
This is what happens when you get a text from your mom or boss saying "We need to talk!"
Mm like music to my ears 👌
The siren you're talking about is a common siren used around the US; the Federal Q. It comes in different pitches for different vents, such as this one for a nuclear attack.
2 minutes of hearing of alarm at least they notify you for safety
Sounds so cool.
When the video stops but the sound doesn't
Ooooo a Green Federal Signal Modulator. You don’t see that everyday!
Those are common here in hawai’i I have only seen the yellow sirens that spin twice on my island and I was born raised here
The sirens are yellow are mostly EOWS 612 and 1212s
That ghostly echo...
You guys have sirens? In Sweden we have giant horns that play in a pattern to broadcast the danger.
In Indian Jones there's a nuclear bomb he hides in a refrigerator😂😂😂 I was like whatttt
R.i.p. headphone users
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1:03 hopefully the people of Hawaii never have to hear the nuclear attack siren for a real scenario
Yeah I can’t imagine getting that while on an island filled with nothing but water for miles apon miles
@@aidanrochester4537 that’s the disturbing reality because where are you meant to go for safety?
Every state and counrty should have these
I literally heard the nuclear one when I was at Pearl Harbor looking at the ships like at 3 AM and when I hear it I literally see fighter jets and phalanx ciws's aim in the sky and start firing holy that was scary
That siren sounds sure does sound Hawaiian
Yep Modulators are common in hawaii
ah, a federal signal Modulator
:D
The Broadmoor hospital escape sirens are tested every monday at ten am. I used to live near one. You get used to them. And broadmoor has a lot of insane criminals there. Including the yorkshire ripper, and even had one of the Krays there at one point
Federal Signal Modulator 3012
The 3012A isnt a thing. its just MOD3012. The Letter at the end is only a MODII thing.
Spicy Ian Because we’re into this kinda stuff. I can name nearly every type of American siren there is.
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20/10 I have no words
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me neither
The steady tone is used for hurricanes as well as tsunamis.
I was flying into Hawaii the day this vid was taken... my family thought that we would have to listen to it in our hotel room but we didn’t get there til afterwards.
Nice a FS Modulator 3012
I just love how the other Modulator that's white and not green starts up and then this one starts up.
that is an ASC i-force 1600 at Ala Wai Boat Harbor
Since seeing content about Russia invading Ukraine, I figured I should learn what the place I live’s own siren for missile attacks sounds like. I’m gonna replay this maybe 100 times to get it memorized so I know what it means if it goes off.
are sirens located in secluded places but close enough to towns or villages to warn citizens..
0.25 speed is creepy
I wish my city had these
Kinda sp00ky that about a month after this video was uploaded/siren was tested, they then experienced the whole incoming ballistic missile false alarm fiasco 🤨😬
A siren’s main purpose is to sound when there’s something outside that can kill you. While they sound for things like nuclear attacks, that’s not it’s main purpose.
Markus Simičak it actually is its main purpose
CivilDefenseTransmitter I’m pretty sure they get way more tsunami’s than nuclear strikes in Hawaii... this isn’t the 1950’s anymore where we have a drill every day
Markus Simičak we don’t get multiple tsunamis in hawaii...
CivilDefenseTransmitter so you’re saying you get more nuclear strikes and or are at a higher risk of a nuclear strike than a tsunami?
Markus Simičak yep and no, we don’t get any nuclear detonations but we are at risk of getting one
Lol that's a modulator 3012 siren which is green i like that color! Nice Recording!
Cool
Sound like is modulator and EOWS 612 siren test in malaysian and indonesian.
Oh hey it's a modulator siren
Is that a green Federal Signal modulator or whatever but it sounds like one of those Sirens back
Second siren sound is for my country for COVID 19 pandemic but more low pitched
What if There’s an actual tsunami on the first and people think it’s a test😂
Not once in my life have I ever heard a nuke warning drill from outdoor sirens. I've lived in DC, Miami, LA, and the Bay Area, too. What's the explanation behind this???
Oh, wow! A Dual-Tone Modulator! 😎
When there’s a real nuclear strike on the first :/
Nuclear test? It’s a tsunami siren?
Talk about the Whelen Air Horn tone...🥶
the siren ur talking about is the mOdulator siren from FD
What if there is a tsunami the first of a month?
The first siren heard could be coming from the ASC I-Force at Ala wai yatch harbor
When you look at your phone to see if it’s the first and it’s not
I pause the video and the siren does not stop
Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeppppp
I watched this with my dog and she tilded her head side to side😱😱😱😱🤩🤩
That siren is called a federal Signal Modulator
what a smol modulator
Always look on the bright side of life
That's a federal signal modulator 3012
Dual tooooone I can tell cause it sounds exactly like the dual tone 6048 in Riverside WA
When people who know that the nuke tone has not been tested since the cold War hear the siren: 𝓪𝓱 𝓬𝓻𝓪𝓹
I'm in North Dakota and we hear these during tornado season.... NUKE season? with all the Minuteman missile silos here, this would be the last thing anyone hears.
i just got the sound then looked up the video and found out it was august first on vacation
Kind of sounds like a thunderbolt without a blower because of dual tone.
It’s what it was based off of as far as I know
This is called a Federal Signal Modulator
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GREAT!
How many sirens are install?
The Hawaii Siren sounds very Erie because I don't hear them as often I'm only from North East in NJ by Atlantic Ocean but I think Wildwood Crest NJ or Atlantic city NJ has the same Model as Hawaii does but the other day I did hear the Siren go off for a Minute for a Noon Test but in the my Town in New Milford NJ my Fire Department has Gamewell Diaphones for Fire calls for Fire and Rescue and Noon test but unfortunately we only use it for Fire calls for Company 1 down at the Fire house Company 2 has a Federal Siren use for Fire signal but there its short round not like how Long Island NY in large cities are with horns and Sirens
This is ironic now.
Why you listening close to siren ? Why not couple of miles far away?
Washington State has these. They use them every 4 hours. Then the Air Force & Army goes into action with there bombs, guns, and other shit. Foet Lewis & Joint Base Lewis McCHORD
The nuclear one should be the alarm when it rains tacos
5/10 relaxing in my opinion
Yep this is a Wheel Modulator R22150
We have something very similar in the midwest US for tornadoes
Why would they need to test the nuclear attack signal when in modern days no one has to worry about sounding their nuclear attack signal when no one uses nukes
that sirens model? federal signal modulator 3012
It's actually a FedSig MOD-3024H, not a 3012. The 3024H is a compact version of the 6024 and is rated at 119db(A) at 30m/100ft. You can identify them by looking at the ID tag on the inactive/dummy cell.
Since when did hawaii have sirens
nice green modulator
its all fun and games until u hear this and it isnt the first of the month