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!
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.
@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".
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 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
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
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.
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
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!
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
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!
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.
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
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!
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.
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 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.
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
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!
"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.
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.
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.
If you're at school or any kind of workplace, you will be required to evacuate to the safest part of the building, and stay there until they lift the tornado warning. This may happen before they even turn on the sirens.
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
That's actually really smart, that way you can tell the difference between a warning or a test. It would probably scare me more than tornado sirens already do
I keep looking at these kinds of videos and I just know someday a real tornado warning is gonna happen during a video I'm watching haha. At first I'll think it's the video but then it ends and...AHH!
@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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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!
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.
Siren:
Never gonna give you up! Never gonna let you down Neva gonna run around and desert you!
+AmtrakSuperFan 393 never gonna make you cry , never gonna say goodbye , never gonna tell a lie , and hurt you*
That actually can happen if the emergency management hires a troller.
Let me just stand outside and record while the siren tells me to seek shelter. XD
Thunderbird 1908 stupid right
*THIS IS GOD TAKE SHELTER NOW*
Ok god!
Tornado warning, shelter imeediately warning seek shelter shelter shelter immediately woooooooooooo
James Christmas 0:22
The Voice of God!
Awesome. Love the echoing "This is a tornado warning!!!"
The tornado sirens in Burleson went off last night and the sounded exactly like this! It was so awesome!
Out of all the videos of talking tornado sirens, this has to be the best one. Very cool!
@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".
OH MY GOD IT TALKS
NOW THAT'S A SIREN I REALLY WANT
we never have tornados in australia, but the other week there was a water spout that moved towards the land and destroyed about 10 - 15 houses.
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 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
Okay. I'm nearly 100% certain my town needs one of these...and yes, I am very aware it doesn't take much to amuse me.
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
*this is a tornado warning, seek shelter immediately*
(as he stands outside filming it!)
lmao i love it!
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.
"That is freakin crazy!" I agree! I've never even heard of talking tornado sirens!
Many people think the voice option is worthless because it is intelligible...I heard the word tornado, that's all I need to know!!! Good video post!
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
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!
Hahaha! at first I though your voice was the talking part and I laughed at the thought of a tornado siren saying, "Well, that's not good."
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
So, 4 or 5 years later, how's Dallas? xd
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!
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.
My area has had talking tornado sirens for my entire life. These sirens have a sense of urgency unlike anything I've ever heard.
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.
I miss tornado sirens haha. They make everything more exciting than it really is.
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
your sky gives me that trippy kind of feeling when i look upside down while im standing up
i hate that feeling
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!
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.
Once again thoses sirens are so scary and awesome i wish my city had thoses sirens but we don't get tornomic activitys
Now THAT'S a tornado siren I never heard of. Freaky indeed.
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 saw this on here last yr and looked it up again. SCARY STUFF! Glad we dont have talking sirens in Missouri!!
I want to be that guy who talks through the siren, wait, I'd probably get fired for singing Highway to Hell.
lol
Most sirens don't have live operators anymore. The message in this video is pre recorded.
ShanesVlogs haha
Sounds like a federal signal modulator siren. They are electronic signs with pre programmed voices to indicate warnings, tests etc.
every time they go off, It's scares the bejibbons out of me, they are the most eerie noise EVER!!!
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.
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
I still love how the sound reverberates from all directions within a half mile or so.
There's multiple sirens.
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!
"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.
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.
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.
LOL!!!! you just made my day
man ive always wanted to see a tornado! :(
shame i live in england they are so cool!
I miss tornado warnings!! I love storms and stuff like this.
so creepishly quiet after he says "seek shelter," and the dogs barking adds to the creepyness
If you're at school or any kind of workplace, you will be required to evacuate to the safest part of the building, and stay there until they lift the tornado warning. This may happen before they even turn on the sirens.
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
Gk Gk Not all tornado sirens have voice
We've had talking tornado sirens just like that in Kansas for like 10 years.
I like how one siren is like off from all the rest lol
nice vid though
That talking siren is freaking awsome!!! :-)
I've only heard tornado sirens twice in my life: one in Williamsburg, VA and Chapel Hill, NC
That's actually really smart, that way you can tell the difference between a warning or a test. It would probably scare me more than tornado sirens already do
That is the coolest thing i have ever heard!!! I LOVE TX!!
I keep looking at these kinds of videos and I just know someday a real tornado warning is gonna happen during a video I'm watching haha. At first I'll think it's the video but then it ends and...AHH!
Glad our sirens don't talk. It's spooky enough just hearing them but for them to talk that would be eerie.
That's what the sirens in Plano are like. They scare the shit out of me when they actually go off when it's not the first Wednesday of the month.
That is scary! Did anything ever happen after that?
"Oh shit, fuckin' rain." Yeah, that's the biggest threat at that moment. Haha. Nice video.
@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.
Dude - I'd go inside if I was you. A funnel cloud could come right down on top of you. I like those sirens. I wish we had them.
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.
Wow a shiver went down my spine. But very exiting :S
Yall should hear the siren from chicago its creepy!
Clara Cortez omg the one that sounds like it's dying! I live that one too!
Clara Cortez no tornados here
It’s supposed to scare tornadoes
Talking tornado sirens! I wish we had those! :D
I live in Fort Worth and I never heard it talk but then again I did not move here till 2014.
What if it was Morgan Freeman talking?
LMFAO
LOL...wait are you talking about... GARRY`S MOD?!?!?!!
How about Clint Eastwood? "You feelin lucky punk? You bout to have a tornado"
That would kick
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.
Okay that is either a EOWS or a Whelen but that is the coolest siren ever! That's so creepy.
omg omg!! when the tornado speach came! ''this is a warning'' sounded like a sci fi movie or half life 2 or something! xD
That echoing voice sounds mighty!
I heard one of those talking ones in my area, and there was solider field near it and my friend thought that was the pa guy in the stadium
I... would cry if I heard sirens like that. Just out of pure excitement. Either that... or piss myself.
In the Midwest hearing a tornado siren means run outside and watch for a tornado. 😂
Haha, awesome!
You sound Canadian too haha. I was expecting a "That's freaking crazy eh!"
Cool vid. But awesome grass. It's like super green.
did you get any damage ?
so far our area has been a miss.
thank God.
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.
I was in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area that day and didn't hear these talking sirens. I saw the tornado from 5 miles away though.
i love the way it echos !!! but man i would shit myself if i lived near one of these sirens!!!
Shit, you're not kidding! I've woken up to tornado sirens, and a blaring NOAA weather radio, once before. I think I shit my pants!
fuckin scary shit man. the way the clouds are moving i can tell that there was potential for a small tornado. keep makin videos!
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.
how many times a year do you get tornado warnings in the ft worth area?
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.
Man, that's bizzare! The ones in my area are just a constant blast.
Those sirens with that voice might be even more scarier than the tornado itself.. Toooo weird and not comforting for an already stressful situation.
That's the same type of sirens they have in Saginaw, Michigan. I've never heard them in attack mode before.
O_O holy shit! those are freaky! if i heard that in the middle of the night....DAMN...
@MrRandomTux Why would a siren that sounds like a car alarm scare you????
how many times a year do you get tornado warnings?
the new tornado siren should be
"RA RA AH AH AH, ROMA ROMA MA, GA GA OOH LA LA"
;)
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...