Test of Whelen Siren at St. Lucie FPL Nuclear Power Plant
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.ย. 2024
- This is one of the Whelen WS-3016 electronic sirens at the FPL Nuclear Plant near Fort Pierce, Florida, being tested. Voice test from start until 3:21. Siren starts at 3:34. At 3:44, another Whelan siren can be heard activating. Wind down starts at 3:56. Other sirens can be heard in the background after this one shuts off. These are tested every first Thursday every three months. The next test will be on September 3rd. I believe these sirens replaced things like Federal Thunderbolts and 2T22's, but I could be wrong. As these are electronic sirens, there are no moving parts aside from the rotator.
Me walking into the math class
"THIS IS A TEST,THIS IS ONLY A TEST"
........CHBEEEBOBUBLUBULBUBA
Lol
@@L00PdeL00P booooOOOOOOOoooooooOOOOOOOoooooooOOOOOOOO
It would be some bad luck if it went into meltdown during a test
Rip
Like Chernobyl
@@lewisinnit8464 thats.. thats not what happened in Chernobyl?
@@tiny7t7 well I mean, technically he’s right. It was a test just not a test of the siren.
@@commondirtbagz7130 Well not really as he was referring to the comment, which says a test of the siren. Chernoybl was a test of how long the reactor would continue generating power after a full shutdown, which obviously went wrong, so hardy a siren.
Just to clarify, was that a test? Was that only a test?
Assuming so, yes. :P
I'm not sure!
No, it was real. Lol
No, it's actually a teft.
And it is only a teft.
No, that was a tornado hurricane earthquake Cold War air raid warning ;)
0:06 pardon you
LOL that did make me laugh xP
Lol
Wtf....fart lol
Stay off the Panda Express if you have those problems
+WhammyP-50 LOL
A test?! I didn't study for this test... 😦
John Holloway pure gold comment here, (I didn't study ether)
Same here I don’t know question 12.How to eat a siren LOL
Nice one
Gold
I didn’t study for the finals
2:13 you could hear another one in the distance
Ah
wow you have good hearing I didn't hear it at all
Not really
@@especiallyninety_751 you don't hear the siren you just hear the test tone*
Sound like howling wolves. Eerie.
sounds like AOL dial up
Larry Peters IDK what aol is cause I live in 🇨🇦
My modem never had to dial letters to access AOL.
No
@@theaolguy then wut
@@calvindejong4566 America online it's a dinosaur today
i think this is a test
They don't have to broadcast that message 500 times. How would you like it if I repeatedly said, "This is a test. This is only a test".
Andrew Carlstedt
They actually do as it would be terrible to be in the shower, listening to music through headphones, or doing anything that causes you not to hear it, then suddenly hearing sirens and not knowing whether it's a test or not. They once did this when I lived there and had sirens booming and it took a while before she actually said "This is a test" and it was EXTREMELY worrisome.
It is. Otherwise, Mommy, I am coming home!
Andrew Carlstedt Don't forget the beep thingy.
XD! 11 seconds in are the DTMF tones that are designed to activate the other sirens in the area. And yes, during the test sequence, the siren rotates a set distance before each test. During actual operation, it cycles continuously.
0:05 FFFFFFFAAAAAARRRRRRTTTTTT this is a test of my ass! LOL
+Paul Spomer LOLOL i make those noises in the bathroom!
XD
lizziepickle3000 same here!
+Paul Spomer one time I did it at school
Lol
what if there was an emergency on test day. ''This is not a test, all of you are fucked" *starts playing sorry - justin bieber*
In the event of an actual emergency, there would be no 'This is a test' verbal announcement.
And of course I only just now noticed you were joking xD
SpeakerPolice
haha lol thats fine. nice sounding siren though lol, wish we had some in Australia but there aren't any emergencies of that kind
+Zandah Starick I'm not even sure if these sirens are still up; they very well may have been replaced by something even more modern by now. I wish they had some 1000Ts down there!
SpeakerPolice
only the best lol. that would be very cool
I remember hearing a siren for the first time. I tumbled out of bed and screamed. I lost my voice after!
OH
I have a siren near my house that goes off every day because it's at the fire station
I remember these as a kid. I lived so close to it, it would scare the hell out of me 😭 be home alone at like 8, and go into my backyard to sirens, or that little computer noise. Ughhh
Homer might need this
D'OH!
The sirens rotate so they can be heard in all directions. The rotator motors are tested during the tests, as well.
Oh man! It looks like the horn is ether rusted badly or dirty. That's actually a Whelen WS-3016 which is one of the earlier models of these sirens. The WPS came out somewhere in the mid 1980s and the 3016 models were quit being made in 1989 or 1990. Excellent recording!
That sounds about right, except for the reactor being that far underground. I'm pretty sure St. Lucie's reactors are inside the two giant reinforced concrete silos on the property.
I counted...about five of these when my dad drove near a power plant over the weekend. While I was educating him about the different sirens and he told me about having to learn the different sounds the sirens use to signal with while working in a nuclear power plant, he mentioned that it seems like our tornado siren is tested once a week now. Overcautious, maybe, but I don't blame them after the close calls we had with Hurricane Gustav lol
All were replaced by Whelen 4004s in 2017
Pre COVID 😂😂😂 I wonder if they already knew.....
This is a prank. This is only a prank.
this is the hood. this is only the hood
LOL
This Is An Idiot, This Is Only An Idiot.
That sound is called a DTMF tone, and is designed to activate other nearby sirens in the area.
I was very confused what this was all about, but that makes sense. Thank you!
@@absolarix No problem!
@@SpeakerPolice is it the beepy thing?
@@boeinthuziast Yep!
Pretty cool isn’t it? It’s like their talking to each other.
i love how you can hear distant ones too
poor girl, back in 09 she was beutitful but now it's a mess
What does this siren look like now? I was told it was replaced by something else.
+SpeakerPolice I'm not sure but she prob ain't that healthy if she is somehow still standing after all the hell she has been through in her life spam cause this is like a first gen siren
+StarKen Gaming When someone says first gen siren I think of the 1000T :P
+SpeakerPolice yeah its actually a FS thing not a whelen one plus look at the bottom pipe of the siren
+StarKen Gaming BENT yeah its in bad shape
Fart at 0:06 XD
kinda sounds lie an air horn, only slightly broken
😂
cancer
this was the only siren that couldn't do a full rotation
This same model siren is all over southern New Hampshire and right down the street from my cottage, took me years to realize there’s a nuclear power plant the next town over
This system has been replaced by newer whelens that dont work with the encoder software and they glitch out and barely work. Sad, but i think they’re working on it.
this is the type of siren a county I once lived in uses, in Alabama
This to me is possibly one of the scariest sounds I cant ever hear.
These are the only sirens I have heard up close, so they were new to me, as well. :3
The actual siren , after 3:45 can give someone a heart attack.
One of these stupid things is very close to where I live... Had to walk home from school once with that thing blaring in my ears...
EDIT: Great, it's going off now... 'This is a test, this is only a test'...
Oh dear xP
I live next to a house that literally has one of these on their lawn. It's kind of annoying when you try to sleep in till 11 and this thing repeats the same annoying lady talking and the creppy dia tones AND the loud as hell siren
Fifthcell YES. Someone who knows how I feel... *hugs you*
PeculiarReality I would like to hear a siren Every time I get home
PeculiarReality There's a Federal Signal Thunderbolt 1000T beside my house, and unfortunately it just got a new blower, making it obscenely louder 😩
This scared me when I was a kid, and still freaking scares me...*Shivers*
I have figured the location of this siren. This got replaced a year after you recorded this. It was hard but i had figured it out. Its by the interstate more than likely
After ten years the sirens still have this same voice to this day
Also when your goofing off instead of studying *FPL siren voice intensifies*
2009: This is a test, this is only a test.
2020: This is a lockdown, this is only a lockdown. But except there are no infectious disease alarm sirens.
It stops at each test so that it can be heard from all directions.
There is a siren on the side of the northbound turnpike that I looked for every time we went that way. I have a few pictures of it.
That is a DTMF tone that is emitted for the other sirens to hear, which activates them. Or so I'm told. x3
Those are DTMF tones; they cause other nearby sirens in the area to activate.
This is a Troll. This is only a Troll.
BEEP BEEP BOOP BE BOOP
Nice 👍🏻 one
DASH89ER 😂😂😂
Does she wants to connect to the internet?? Women, the connection is not in the siren
When siren goes off, her computer exlpoded
Haha, nice. XD
DTMF codes xD
in pikering ontario the nuclear power plant as well as the others in the Toronto area use these sirins they test every spring and once in the summer canada government protocole they also tell reisidents of the tests and démonstrations on how to react to an incident at one of the plabt or what to do if you need to evacuate the area
i like how you can hear these 3016s, then a lower pitched 4004 in the distance
I recommend this siren to get recorded again, I know this WS-3016 is replaced by the 4004.
*serial contraption of malice starts playing*
This is clipped in the video that got me into sirens.
Interesting how you can hear the rotator from down there.
Ah.
Indeed, although I saw one up north and it didn't do this.
Indeed.
+GenTheHotshot Its gone, this siren
Its gone, lol
I think this is one of the first whelen vids I've ever watched?
Pretty good sounding Whelen.
Also....0:06 Analog Air Horn?
Idk
DTMF tone, used to activate other sirens in the area.
@SpeakerPolice your right, Thunderbolts dont talk because their also Mechanical sirens
Whenever a siren makes a pop I think: "STAY OFF THE PANDA EXPRESS!"🍚
Da fuk
Where I live, we got a siren that's gone off 3 times this week, 1 was a scheduled test, the other 2 were not, Only lasts for about 10 secs. I can't get outside in time to tell if it's only 1 siren going off.
“this is a test, this is only a test.”
**insert loud fart noise**
3:32
It liked repeating it's self before the noisy siren went off!
A rickroll of this volume would be EPIC.
The voice sounds awesome on these, unlike the Turkey point voice
These are MOV (QuickTime) files, so they are incompatible with Windows Movie Maker. I couldn't change the picture, even if I wanted to. DX
FPL, where our siren still have issues after decades later dispite replacing all the old siren.
Those are tones designed to activate the other sirens in the immediate area.
All these Whelen 3016s were replaced with Whelen vortex's in 2013-14.
Duderocks5539 Shame :/
+SpeakerPolice Yeah if you go on google street view and go to 589 SW Natalie Terrace Street There's a vortex on a steel pole in the same spot where a 3016 used to be.
All that vocal warning for a mere 30 seconds or so of actual test.
These are for an emergency evacuation in the unlikely event that the St. Lucie Nuclear Power Plant nearby experiences a significant failure (e.g. something that would cause irradiation of the nearby communities). And LOL, I would probably freak out too if I heard that and didn't know what it was for!
I remember seeing these sirens back in 2014 when I visited Florida, and what sirens were they replaced by, because I heard in the comments that they were replaced by newer sirens sometime
That’s a good video quality for 2009
Thank you, this was shot on a Kodak M1033
Mahoning County Ohio has these types of Sirens in some places
3:34 "The Last Sound you'll ever hear."
their tornado sirens they go off every now and then in port st Lucie as well
This is a test! this is actually a test!
Legend has it that this siren is still saying "THIS IS A TEST! THIS IS ONLY A TEST!"
This is not Amtrak! This is only Avanti West Coast!
I need that scary DTMF dialer tune
Yeah Im moving again, I wanna hear the sirens, Im glad this video is here, now when I move, I can go deaf!
Boba Bitch These particular sirens were replaced by newer models years ago. I have no idea how loud the new ones are lol
Thanks for that info, I appreciate it. =) I haven't heard many sirens, but so far, these Whelens are the only ones I've heard produce the tones as well.
It's highly likely this isn't on an analog ESC-864, but rather on the earlier WS-3000 controller that served as somewhat of a prototype of the ESC 864
On Installation Yes, However Most Likely after 1985 or Something Around then they were all Most likely upgraded to 1st Gen ESC-864
THIS IS A TEST, THIS IS ONLY A TEST !
I live off of Floresta we don't have one near us but can hear the ones across the river from on US1 and Prima Vista.
Per the video description, yes, it is a WS-3016.
“This is only a test”
**farts**
Yep at the beginning
Hey the woman probably ate Taco Bell and Busch's baked beans before the test 🤣😂😅😋
Remember guys:
*THIS IS A TEST, THIS IS ONLY A TEST*
My parents have a condo on the island the sirens are still the same
"This Is Not A Test" "Repeat This Is Not A Test" "Run For Your Lives" D=
0:11 did the robots just come to life wtf?
The Federal Thunderbolt is an aging siren, and they are being taken down in many places. It's a real shame, I want to hear one and get it on video!
We have one of those sirens around Aurora, Colorado
Thanks for that info! I had conflicting reports of whether is was a WS or WPS. Yeah, it was pretty dirty, but I couldn't really tell if it was actually rust or just wear from the elements. BTW thanks for subscribing!
It’s just worn. Fiberglass doesn’t rust
@@dinkindane There are metal parts, and this is coastal Florida. There's also the fact that you're replying to a comment that's over a decade old lol
@@SpeakerPolice I meant the housing. Also I reply BECAUSE I CAN!!!>:)
@@dinkindane Lmao
This is a test, this is only a test.... We get it !
I wasn't aware that Whelen made a round siren. Are you sure it's not a Federal?
Imagine pausing the video but the alarm won't stop,
I live in Boston but our condo in florida is about a 1000 feet away from the power plant this sirens in fort piece which is 8 10 miles away we can see the power plant from our condo I get nervous about radiation or if it blows
Pete Hadayia nuclear power has become _very_ safe over the years especially ever since the Chernobyl accident of 198(3)
I like this video so much, it`s so funny, the Lady says hundret times "this is a test, only a test", and that all for that poor noise, ROFL
is that a whelen 3016?
It’s a whelen ws-3016
Me: I'm not ready for a test😟
Siren: this is a test only a test laalaweeo itzitzIF
it is allways a scary atmosphere to hear this in the near of a nuclear power plant
Why does it make that sound for just a second? It sounds like a small transformer stuck while trying to transform
Why does the siren rotate to one direction each time she says "this is a test, this is only a test"? Why dosen't it rotate fully the whole time she is saying it?
Yes, nuclear fallout sirens tend to creep people out xD
they have gone off during tornado warnings or severe weather to
Can someone tell me why it sounds like this instead of sirens shrieking everywhere