A few factoids on this siren: This siren was drafted and created between 1982 and the early 1990s. EOWS stands for Electronic Outdoor Warning Siren. Many people also call this a SiraTone, though, that's only the name of a series of controllers that Federal Signal created. For those that thought just 6 horns were creepy: it only gets worse. There existed models with 4 horns and 8 horns, respectively named the EOWS 408 and EOWS 816. There even exists the EOWS 1212 that has 12 speakers. This time, however, two sets of 6 sit on top of each other and fan out in all directions. Why does this siren sound so creepy? It's using a controller called the Federal Signal SiraTone controller. In a metal cabinet below the siren, this controller receives radio messages to activate the siren, and then generates a signal that is sent to the head of the siren, where powerful amplifiers louden the sound and make some noise!
This is my favorite model of siren in the category of electronic sirens with rotation. In general, I like how the rotating siren sounds fade in and out, especially in the ATTACK mode (wail tone).
Imagine he says oodles, they're going off a minute in advance and then you see a couple MIRVS come down. That would be funny but more so just fucking scary
My town uses this siren to call volunteer fire fighters, I used to sit out in my front yard and listen to it and then hear all the sirens as the cars roll out of the station
@zozey1231 Nope, that's more like just what happens to those old analog tone generators in older electronic sirens as they age, mainly from things such as capacitors beginning to dry out. The EOWS series is notorious for massive pitch fluctuations while running, and 95% of them will slowly drop in pitch throughout their alert cycle (though a few have been found that actually rise in pitch over the duration of the signal).
Kere Vallire Well the one in twin lakes park is. I see a 2001 on the pole of that one in google earth. And the one in this video in this video is no where to be seen, therefore the city replaced them.
Gave me goose bumps. She sounds AMAZING. It's odd the timing was different with all the sirens. Gotta say that I loved hearing the other sirens in the background. Might not have if this one delayed. Great video
I literally heard this recently when I was down the shore and Hermine was off the coast. Scared me to death. I thought a tidal wave was coming. Apparently there was just some minor flooding from the rain in the neighboring town, but wow was it creepy to hear live
i want federal signal to start producing EOWS again, it ticks me off that they don't make them any more, it could replace my area's tsunami siren! (a model 5 i think).
People say the one in Chicago is broken but it's been like that for so long that its basically our siren. Be there's one "broken" one in Missouri i think it's from 2007 footage
I am glad you stuck around for the test. I do not know if my last comments got posted - do you know what the tones mean that go along with the test pattern? Not the actual siren, but the tones after she announces the test.
I love the HOR super sirex cuz it surprisingly gets this loud and ik cuz I live pretty much down the street from one in Holyoke Massachusetts I stood like 40 or 50 feet away and still got vertigo😂
Hey ! Im with "Tech 360 Dallas" and we are working on a comp video of tornado sirens and would like to add this one to our comp along with many other from all across youtube!
@AlanMolstad i didn't videotape it. but i use a tripod on my nicer camera.(This was my Sony DCR-PC330, i videotaped the thunder bolt with my Sony HDR-SR12)
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ah yes, ive always wanted to hear an ariana grande concert, thank you.
*Man* "Huh, nothing.."
*Siren* "ARHHHHGHGHGHGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"
Lol
The "Stop fucking around outside and get the fuck inside, NOW!" siren.
lol
Air sirens are really loud, but speaker sirens are creepier. (This siren is a speaker siren)
Yeah, this is one of the best/creepiest siren vids imo. At least that I've seen.
Electronic Air Raid Siren
Emergency I-forgot-the-O Warning Siren
You haven't heard anything listen to the video of the eows 612 in Livonia michigan
+ShadowStalker Electronic Outdoor Warning System=EOWS
+Maxi Mustermanny Sorry, not System, it's siren
why m I so obsessed with watching these??
A few factoids on this siren:
This siren was drafted and created between 1982 and the early 1990s.
EOWS stands for Electronic Outdoor Warning Siren. Many people also call this a SiraTone, though, that's only the name of a series of controllers that Federal Signal created.
For those that thought just 6 horns were creepy: it only gets worse. There existed models with 4 horns and 8 horns, respectively named the EOWS 408 and EOWS 816. There even exists the EOWS 1212 that has 12 speakers. This time, however, two sets of 6 sit on top of each other and fan out in all directions.
Why does this siren sound so creepy? It's using a controller called the Federal Signal SiraTone controller. In a metal cabinet below the siren, this controller receives radio messages to activate the siren, and then generates a signal that is sent to the head of the siren, where powerful amplifiers louden the sound and make some noise!
Every time i hear a siren one thing goes through my mind: Its the end of the world.
The first thing that comes to mind is, I gotta get to the fire station.
sameee
The first thing comes to my mind is: oh, the fun thing is here.
Holy moly you think same thing as me
*and i feel fine...*
Wow. That is the most eerie sound yet. I'm sure it sent a psychological effect to everyone when they heard it.
Samuel Moser they use it in Chicago
Samuel Moser but they use alternative wail
Samuel Moser I heard one of these, before...it sounds more like a cop car's siren, or a sound of an ambulance.
they dont use them in chicago
[myst]goldwolfgamer888x: they use modulators that do alternate wail
"Hmmmmm....nuthin. *siren goes off*
That's an XD moment right there!
This is my favorite model of siren in the category of electronic sirens with rotation. In general, I like how the rotating siren sounds fade in and out, especially in the ATTACK mode (wail tone).
I like the sirens that spin, I think it is better because it spins and gets the alert out better.
Imagine he says oodles, they're going off a minute in advance and then you see a couple MIRVS come down. That would be funny but more so just fucking scary
The siren may look silly but it sounds almost like a Thunderbolt in attack mode.
I never understood why the 612 is the "favorite" among siren fans...mine are sentries because they look freaky
My town uses this siren to call volunteer fire fighters, I used to sit out in my front yard and listen to it and then hear all the sirens as the cars roll out of the station
@zozey1231 Nope, that's more like just what happens to those old analog tone generators in older electronic sirens as they age, mainly from things such as capacitors beginning to dry out. The EOWS series is notorious for massive pitch fluctuations while running, and 95% of them will slowly drop in pitch throughout their alert cycle (though a few have been found that actually rise in pitch over the duration of the signal).
I live near an Air Force base so every time there is a siren test It scares the living day lights out of me.
The other night, I had a dream that the siren in my town was replaced with one of these.
Ah... The infamous chigago siren
I love these because they are about the only electronic siren that sounds like a mechanical siren!
The sound that the other ones made in the background was kind of creepy
That is a very creepy noise, I would not like to wake up to that in the morning!
Or 3:00 AM!
This siren is sadly now gone as well as the cities other EOWS and replaced with a 2001-130.
ummm, not it's not
Kere Vallire Well the one in twin lakes park is. I see a 2001 on the pole of that one in google earth. And the one in this video in this video is no where to be seen, therefore the city replaced them.
ChicagoSirens I went past it 2 days ago, it's still there.
Bait28 Which one? I know the one in the park is gone.
ChicagoSirens This is next to the rail lines
Being in an area that doesn't have tornado sirens, I can never truly appreciate how loud these things are. When do cities usually test their sirens?
different in every city, most by me are first Tuesday ever month 10AM
Bait28 thanks for the quick reply
Where is that siren?
RoBLOXXER TM OMG
inga Povilaitiene what?
Gave me goose bumps. She sounds AMAZING. It's odd the timing was different with all the sirens. Gotta say that I loved hearing the other sirens in the background. Might not have if this one delayed. Great video
It's due to the aging capacitors. They drift while running due to age. Drivers worked just fine(None sounded burned out)
Like right after you said nothing it turned on
Brian Hare siren:yeah that's what u think starts goin off
3:28, okay now that sounded incredible!
3:49 "She's a rotator & she's loud." Did you hear that??
Imagine sitting inside during a thunderstorm, talking to your family, and then you hear that
6:24 did anybody saw that boeing 737 700 or 800 behind the siren
Needs more Silent Hill style horns
God imagine have the control over that Chad of a siren
Sounds a lot like the Carters from WWII
Hmm. I live in Memphis, we used to have one of these in a park I live close to. It was taken down and replaced by a Federal Signal 2001, idk why
EOWS 612 is the most beautiful thing ever created by the USA. This siren is the reason I love the USA!
this is the alert tone, i believe. my favorite siren is the thunderbolt
🤣 he flinched when the siren finally started. Do not blame him.
That shake of the camera when the siren turned on tho lol
That siren you were wondering in the background sounds like a ASC RM-130. Those are pretty rare sirens.
*the moment you stop the video, but it keeps going. O__O'''*
Cinderfur Drawz Old not funny joke.
Head down bunker and wait for the tornado to pass or just hide.
@@authority3068 its not original, but its still funny
Authority i was gonna say that
Super original. -69
What does EOWS stand for?
this is the best sounding EOWS sir atone i have ever heard!!
This reminds me of something...collector rings collector rings collector rings collector rings
When ever I hear any siren I see nuclear explosions in my head.
Yes ,when they stop you are waiting ICBM explosions 😣
I literally heard this recently when I was down the shore and Hermine was off the coast. Scared me to death. I thought a tidal wave was coming. Apparently there was just some minor flooding from the rain in the neighboring town, but wow was it creepy to hear live
at 4:15 it is the hazardous materials siren (for nuke attacks, power plant failure, etc)
***** No it's not
Bait28 what is it for then? In my area, that's the siren for hazardous materials...
***** Tornado & Civil Defense
Bait28 ah okay, that tone is better then the tornado siren in my area, it is just a single tone siren that gets kinda hard to hear.
@@lawncraft3868 some warn all of them SOME not all
One of my favourite sirens made by eows
Best sounding electronic siren ever made.
we have 1 in our whole island, it's for prison. (Long Island)
Yep. We also have 1212s too, don't forget.
Marlon Vasquez wait what no way!
Really? I sometimes take a vacation! I wanna see it!
Eows612: hey vortex how are your collector rings doin
this has a great tone! love it!
To me it looks like a bunch of speakers
Ikr it does look like a bunch of speakers
XeX Chris it has 6 speakers
Siren noobs lol.
it does lmao
guava meme no 12 drivers not 6
i want federal signal to start producing EOWS again,
it ticks me off that they don't make them any more,
it could replace my area's tsunami siren! (a model 5 i think).
When you stop the video but a siren breaks you window and starts earaping
People say the one in Chicago is broken but it's been like that for so long that its basically our siren. Be there's one "broken" one in Missouri i think it's from 2007 footage
A pretty siren. It sounds awesome.
I am glad you stuck around for the test. I do not know if my last comments got posted - do you know what the tones mean that go along with the test pattern? Not the actual siren, but the tones after she announces the test.
I love the HOR super sirex cuz it surprisingly gets this loud and ik cuz I live pretty much down the street from one in Holyoke Massachusetts I stood like 40 or 50 feet away and still got vertigo😂
what is that rotating siren at 2:55
Federal 2001 DC
+Osiris Sanchez thnx
+APARTDROP thnx
it's the RM-130
+The Xbox Gaming Wolf An ASC RM-130
4:19 oh yeah baby lol 😂
When they have a 2-tone pitch that goes high and low, it sounds like a german police car, which I kinda like.
Nice siren, I always still pine for the ground shaking feeling of the old Thunderbolt 1003.
This is the first time i knew that this wasn't a nuclear siren. And i also knew that,
THIS IS WAS A TORNADO SIREN AND A CALLER FOR HAZMAT GUYS!!!
I just woke up literally and I’m listening to this
2:54 Thunderbolt 1000-something..... Most beautiful siren ever...
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A beautiful sound
Maybe the siren was broken at first but they repaired it
Why would you replace a perfectly good siren
Because Siratrone controllers are pieces of crap. They are pretty much doomed to fail.
Stormsetter4 ? not a very good reason
Actually it is. They are hard to work on and aren't that reliable.
Did you hear the sirens on 4:01 found like End and that siren you are recording sounds like a fire truck
Thats a nice 3x2 lego piece you got there.
They're not fooling anyone, that's just 6 megaphones strapped to a piece of metal with a speaker playing the sound.
i don't even know what that means
love the way these look they look like 6 megaphones attached to a box it looks so cool
Hey ! Im with "Tech 360 Dallas" and we are working on a comp video of tornado sirens and would like to add this one to our comp along with many other from all across youtube!
Hi, If you really want to use the video, thats fine with us as long as you credit us clearly while the clip is being played(a corner is fine)
That scared the CRAP out of me at 4:14😂
Kinda sounds like a Modulator in Hawaii.
Modulators use the same siratone controller iirc
Siratone drops in pitch but holds it well.
I'm still a bigger fan of when an EOWS 612 does Alternate Hi-Lo (personally). Or wailing Hi-Lo as some may say.
Like a dummy. I named it wrong. It should be Alternate Wail.
Keaton Johnson i`m a fan of alternate wail too!
Johnson what about the Westminster chime thats cool bit like fnaf
+Keaton Johnson Alt. Wail is my favorite too! I like it cause it sounds kinda creepy.
+EPIC CREAKY except they have Mods
I think that the best bit is when the siren gradually disappears ;) but It's pretty scaring :S
Guys! It’s clearly the sirens when the Eater of worlds comes! Guardians prepare!
What were the names of the other Sirens heard in the background
It sounds like a carter air raid siren winding down
Or a thunderbolt
@AlanMolstad i didn't videotape it. but i use a tripod on my nicer camera.(This was my Sony DCR-PC330, i videotaped the thunder bolt with my Sony HDR-SR12)
@HomeSkillet489 Steady is tornado, Wailing is for Civil defense(yes we still use it)
Me:*pauses it* *hears sirens* why do I still hear them
hmm...Nothin
5 seconds later *Siren goes off*
is this on wail or alert or atatck
Atlanta International Airport Fan this is wail. alert wouldn't winddown
FordBoy332 thanks
no, this is alert, you are thinking of woop
Bait28 no I'm not. just didn't word it right. lol. also, OMG ITS BAIT28 HE ACTUALLY REPLIED TO ME OMG *faints*
do these ever do a woop tone?
Sounds like speaker drivers are worn with those pitch changes
Alex the Railfanning Redneck™ nothing to do with speaker drivers and everything to do with the tone generator.
Could be that too.
Alex the Railfanning Redneck™ it is
This is my fav siren!
Mine is the yellow one with a turtle shell like dome on top.
There are still a few of these in Warren, OH. Not sure if they still are in use, but, they are still there.
There are still a few of these in Warren, OH. Not really sure if they are still in use, but, they are there.
I don't tend to like electronic sirens. But this one has a nice mechanical like sound.
>.< that one siren when it moved scared me so bad! xc
She sounds a little like an electronic high-pitched Thunderbolt 1000.
Everytime I hear a tornado siren I think...
*FUCK ITS THE PURGE*
ITS A FIRE TRUCK LOL
No. Its a siren. Dont hurt izs feelings.
Fire trucks and tornado sirens use the same type of system
FullBridgeRectifier true
Sounds like a world of tanks siren
My favorite siren