Agreed. I was downtown in the Loop during this. I boarded a train (Purple line) to head back North essentially going through the storm... Let me tell you, this video didn't capture pitch blackness, to the point you could not see the buildings in front of you. It was intense being on a train via elevated platform.
@@MisterMikeReal this was the very beginning of when the sirens went off while the storm was still far too the north, I took a lot more and shared the best clips to Twitter (@darkpanictwitch). This is definitely the calm before the storm!
This was two severe thunderstorms hitting at once, it was terrible. I don't blame them, but at the same time, they probably didn't think about how it'd affect them. 2001s maximum can somehow go for 15 minutes. But the city ran them for about 30 to nearly Hour.
Yup, found the modulator 6024 siren heard in Apple street view. It’s on the west side of Columbus drive between Roosevelt and Balbo. The 2001 siren heard is also on Columbus, a few blocks north at the intersection with Monroe, by the art institute. A smaller modulator siren is also apparently on the south side of the museum.
I remember coming home from school and then hearing it while being on the third floor of a small apartment building going to take a shower. It’s been five months hasn’t it. But atleast I was scared for nothing cuz nothing happened near me besides rain even though I was like right next to the path of the tornado. All I wanted was another normal second to last day of school in Chicago but I ended up being scared for nothing.
@Jacob Andrews That's a Modulator? I thought that was an actual 2001... I didn't think they would have two mods that close to eachother and one of ehich having a custom fast wail tone to sound like a 2001. Unless that is one mod with alternate wail and fast wail
@@EpicChente30 During tests they stop with no wind down because Chicago dispatch (or whoever controls the sirens) doesn't arm before canceling the signal. But during actual emergencies they let the signal run for the entire 3 minutes so there's a wind down.
@@CorollaChronicles since the modulator at wrigley field did play a custom fast wail tone during emergencies but didn't have a winddown do you think the custom fast wail has a windup if it doesn't have a winddown at the end of the cycle? plus i always wondered if they will go back to using alternate wail/fast attack again.
It wasnt called for an entire hours time before the storm even got to Chicago They damn near broke most of the sirens from this ALOT of the sirens sounded very bad after sounding for an hour straight
@@CombatBuckee The storm was a powerful supercell with intense rotation. We're very, very lucky it didn't spin down a tornado because if it had, the results for northwestern and western portions of the city would have been catastrophic. The storm moved at the speed it moved and didn't give a damn about people's convenience, and meteorologists are going to prioritize saving lives wherever possible with as much advance warning as possible over wear and tear on sirens. This was a 100% justified warning and we are very lucky it wasn't much worse. One day the worst case scenario will be true, and then people will be bitching there wasn't *more* warning.
@Jacob Andrews Alternate Wail is the ALERT signal, though it's not steady tone. Also if they used Alt Wail on the Mods and DSAs, they'd have to use fast wail on the 2001s. Attack/Wail is more serious, so that's what they used. And the reason they don't use Alt Wail is because of the siren head bullshit so blame them, not the city.
@@v10-ACR-E THEY DON'T USE THE COMBINED HILO+WAIL ALSO KNOWN AS ALTERNATE WAIL SIGNAL AND EVEN FAST WAIL TONE ON THE 2001'S AND THE WRIGLEY MODULATOR FOR ANY REASON ANYMORE IN CHICAGO.
@@LogicalChronicalPhenomenal they didn't get rid of it, they just stop sounding them in that tone. but there is a petition online that is about bringing back the alternate wail and fast attack signal.
Its the same one, They just dont use fast wail on the 2001s or alternate wail on the DSAs and Modulators as much. Those signals are for severe weather alert, not tornado warnings. This was an actual warning.
@Jacob Andrews Alternate Wail is an Alert signal. Not a warning signal. And what do you mean prove it? Prove that that's what they're for or prove that that's the siren making the noise?
The 2001s were getting lower pitched because they ran them for over an hour. I don't know about the Mod's but after the sirens stopped it got horrific outside.
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I thought Chicago's sirens would run for 3 minutes and then shut down automatically, guess not. I can't even hear Wacker Drive's Alternating hi/lo wail :( what is the 2024-25 policy for activation criteria? I know tornado warning in cook county or Chicago itself, but anything with 60+ MPH winds or hail?
@DARK PANIC i know the mod's are going insane what else am i hereing in this awesome cershendo of sirens? i thought i herd whalens t bolt's and a alternatert2
it's a shame that most of the sirens died sounding the wail sound and not the Chicago classic alternate wail. does anybody know how long they went for in total and how many sirens died from it
Honestly they should’ve learned from the LAHAR system for Mt Rainer. All 11 of the 6048’s in the valley have an issue with the drivers popping and crackling, the 4 6024’s have an audio interference issue or something. And it’s from being activated for 4 - 6 minutes in wail every 1st Monday of every month at noon, pre 2020 that is. Surprised the SRNB’s didn’t have any issues from being activated for 5 minutes in wail, 130’s were only around for 5 years so they were obviously fine. Just the motor got a little too hot by an extra 2 minutes.
instead of reverting back to alternate wail i feel like the electronic sirens should do Hilo And Mechanical Sirens should do fast attack and the wrigley field modulator can play in fast wail while the other electronic sirens do Hilo.
For the May 25th tornado warning, I was at my school (Harper College in Palatine) for the 4th Activation in parking lot #1. By that time all of Palatine's 2001s were fading and dropping in pitch. I faintly heard Arlington Heights's Whelens, and I heard Hoffman Estates and Rolling Meadows Tempests and Pn 20s a little bit louder. There's a 2001-SRN on Ela Road that was so tired that it sounded like a STL-10 (unless someone in that area has a privatly owned siren). However, were I was standing in the parking lot, Schaumburg's P50 was exactly 2 miles away. I didn't know P50s can go that long, because that thing was *LOUD. AS. FUCK.* To the point that it drowned out Harper's 2001.
@@vcvcf1896 sheesh. Big yikes for the 2001's. P50s can go on for a lot longer because of the bigger heavy-duty motors they have, also they're only AC units too. No batteries to worry about.
Chicago can get tornadoes cause there land is flat and tornadoes like flat land but if there's a lake Michigan influence if a tornadoes forms it won't last long if it's tryna go through the buildings in downtown Chicago but it's better to be safe and not sorry that's why they blast them sirens.
Weather enthusiast here to confirm that you're correct on the sirens thing (however they're not just used for tornadoes). However the myth that tornadoes cannot go through downtown areas of cities is very stupid. Tornadoes won't have a hard time ripping up large buildings, let alone anywhere on earth. They'll have a field day whenever and wherever. There have been small whirlwinds observed on Mount Everest, the tallest mountain in the world. A tornado in Utah took out major buildings in Salt Lake City in 1999. _It was an EF2._ It is truly better safe than sorry.
I’m 43 floors up (of 77) and very spoiled (and privileged) to have these views and live near the park, the lakes and everything in my neighborhood. Yes, it’s expensive… but it’s worth it for me.
I live on the top floor of apartments in downtown Dallas and I have a beautiful view. I live in a Low rise apartment complex so the top floor is floor 4 but with 12' ceilings were more like 50' up.
@@soupwifey I think I’m about 500 feet above ground and I try not to take my views for granted. I’ll be visiting Dallas next weekend and staying at the W downtown… hopefully I’ll have good view and get some timelapses!
@@darkpanic6335 I can walk to that hotel. If you're willing to meet me. My husband is at work so I'm off school during summer so I go out feeding the homeless. I could wagon to the W and feed people on the walk there.
I’m traveling again for work so I’m lucky to have been home for this… I’m always gonna capture and share anything interesting I see and this certainly qualifies! I had regrets for not getting a longer video last year
@@EpicChente30Uhh... Federal still makes the 2001 series, including the batteries. Replacing the batteries is something that is part of normal siren maintenance, and getting new ones is easy.
Chicagos attack signal has the high tone for like 5 or 6 seconds where as everyone else it's more of a fast attack hut not fast wail... Idk it's strange
This is both the coolest and creepiest thing I've seen in a long, long time. --- Thanks for posting!
Agreed.
I was downtown in the Loop during this. I boarded a train (Purple line) to head back North essentially going through the storm... Let me tell you, this video didn't capture pitch blackness, to the point you could not see the buildings in front of you.
It was intense being on a train via elevated platform.
@@MisterMikeReal Holy crap! That would have been SCARY!! Glad you made it home safe!
@@MisterMikeReal this was the very beginning of when the sirens went off while the storm was still far too the north, I took a lot more and shared the best clips to Twitter (@darkpanictwitch). This is definitely the calm before the storm!
@@darkpanic6335 Indeed.
I feel like metra electric line is okay
I remember this day! very loud situation the sirens were activated back to back numerous times. At times some 2001s never stopped.
This was two severe thunderstorms hitting at once, it was terrible. I don't blame them, but at the same time, they probably didn't think about how it'd affect them. 2001s maximum can somehow go for 15 minutes. But the city ran them for about 30 to nearly Hour.
3:13, 6:30, 10:06, 14:02 and 17:40 the wind ups are just amazing 🤩
The power of the Original MC controller.
Is it the modulator?
@@CasadelMeme Yep! 🔊
10:06 was fire
@@CasadelMeme it’s a modulator and a EOWS 6 12
You can see the modulator heard in the video! It’s in the lower center at 2:55!
Yup, found the modulator 6024 siren heard in Apple street view. It’s on the west side of Columbus drive between Roosevelt and Balbo. The 2001 siren heard is also on Columbus, a few blocks north at the intersection with Monroe, by the art institute. A smaller modulator siren is also apparently on the south side of the museum.
@@djijspeakerguy4628 376 E Waldron? A bit further south, but it's some kind of PA system.
This is AWESOME footage❗❗❗❗❗❗Pretty spooky watching these major storm clouds forming and floating across this big-city skyline!! 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Storm on my birthday that day, best bday present I ever had
I remember coming home from school and then hearing it while being on the third floor of a small apartment building going to take a shower. It’s been five months hasn’t it. But atleast I was scared for nothing cuz nothing happened near me besides rain even though I was like right next to the path of the tornado. All I wanted was another normal second to last day of school in Chicago but I ended up being scared for nothing.
The wind down on the modulator’s is insane and very Erie and I love this video as well keep up on the great work 👌😁
I think that's new usually it would just cut off
@Jacob Andrews I know but it always stopped mid way there was no wind down before
@Jacob Andrews That's a Modulator? I thought that was an actual 2001... I didn't think they would have two mods that close to eachother and one of ehich having a custom fast wail tone to sound like a 2001. Unless that is one mod with alternate wail and fast wail
@@EpicChente30 During tests they stop with no wind down because Chicago dispatch (or whoever controls the sirens) doesn't arm before canceling the signal. But during actual emergencies they let the signal run for the entire 3 minutes so there's a wind down.
@@CorollaChronicles since the modulator at wrigley field did play a custom fast wail tone during emergencies but didn't have a winddown do you think the custom fast wail has a windup if it doesn't have a winddown at the end of the cycle? plus i always wondered if they will go back to using alternate wail/fast attack again.
Sirens were definitely called for. You can clearly see a well formed wall cloud.
It wasnt called for an entire hours time before the storm even got to Chicago
They damn near broke most of the sirens from this
ALOT of the sirens sounded very bad after sounding for an hour straight
@@CombatBuckee The storm was a powerful supercell with intense rotation. We're very, very lucky it didn't spin down a tornado because if it had, the results for northwestern and western portions of the city would have been catastrophic.
The storm moved at the speed it moved and didn't give a damn about people's convenience, and meteorologists are going to prioritize saving lives wherever possible with as much advance warning as possible over wear and tear on sirens.
This was a 100% justified warning and we are very lucky it wasn't much worse. One day the worst case scenario will be true, and then people will be bitching there wasn't *more* warning.
@Jacob Andrews Alternate Wail is the ALERT signal, though it's not steady tone. Also if they used Alt Wail on the Mods and DSAs, they'd have to use fast wail on the 2001s. Attack/Wail is more serious, so that's what they used. And the reason they don't use Alt Wail is because of the siren head bullshit so blame them, not the city.
@@v10-ACR-E THEY DON'T USE THE COMBINED HILO+WAIL ALSO KNOWN AS ALTERNATE WAIL SIGNAL AND EVEN FAST WAIL TONE ON THE 2001'S AND THE WRIGLEY MODULATOR FOR ANY REASON ANYMORE IN CHICAGO.
@@v10-ACR-E WRONG they do not use alternate wail/fast wail anymore in chicago for anything at all.
i heard so this so many times chicago il also i live in this city but on june 20 2021 there was an tornado at 11:00pm here
i never knew they sound like that better than the alt wail
It’s commonly a wail tone, however the farther you get from downtown it becomes majority 1st gen 2001-SRNs.
@@chrome7fan do you think they will sound them off in alternate wail/fast wail again in chicago?
They got rid of the alt wail in 2020.
@@TravisDillon2000Don’t think so. They got rid of it.
@@LogicalChronicalPhenomenal they didn't get rid of it, they just stop sounding them in that tone. but there is a petition online that is about bringing back the alternate wail and fast attack signal.
chicago eas alarm got way diffrent than the other one 13 years ago
Its the same one, They just dont use fast wail on the 2001s or alternate wail on the DSAs and Modulators as much. Those signals are for severe weather alert, not tornado warnings. This was an actual warning.
@Jacob Andrews Alternate Wail is an Alert signal. Not a warning signal. And what do you mean prove it? Prove that that's what they're for or prove that that's the siren making the noise?
because of the siren head crap
@Jacob Andrews simply, a severe weather alert is literally an alert for any severe weather
@@screammovies7228 they don't use those sounds anymore.
hey Chicago, how about you use the old creppy alternate wail sound for the normal 3-minutes instead of burning alot of your sirens up?
That won’t make a difference
@@BRISTOLFORCE2009 true
I only really payed attention to the Metra and South Shore electric trackage in the foreground really, wonder how the trains were affected.
3:02 I was looking down is that a modulator there next to that street?
Just south (below) of the tennis courts, the white vertical tower is the modulating siren.
Yup that’s the modulator
Yay I'm correct :D
@Jacob Andrews All Modulators are capable of Hi-Lo, if they are configured to do so.
@@ArxCyberwolfPC
I remember I was at Wrigley Field watching the cubs when this happened..
Is it me or everytime the cubs play in CHICAGO there's always a super severe storm that causes delay and sirens
I was living in Chicago 16 years ago and a tornado hit grant park and took the bean
They don’t run the Modulators in alternate wail for tornadoes anymore?
I really liked those, that’s what makes Chicago unique when it comes to tornado sirens
Nope
I believe that stopped in either 2020 or 2021
@Jacob Andrews I guess not
@@BHV0810 2019
Should a used that alternate wail but still feels eerie none the less, like nuclear attack is imminent.
The 2001s were getting lower pitched because they ran them for over an hour. I don't know about the Mod's but after the sirens stopped it got horrific outside.
It wasn't a flood warning
They had to switch because they found out that Alternate Wail was not for weather related emergencies.
@@StuffyTH-camyeah i would think nuclear attack, it had that kind of eerieness about it...
@@StuffyTH-camhow do you know that’s why they stopped?
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I thought Chicago's sirens would run for 3 minutes and then shut down automatically, guess not. I can't even hear Wacker Drive's Alternating hi/lo wail :(
what is the 2024-25 policy for activation criteria? I know tornado warning in cook county or Chicago itself, but anything with 60+ MPH winds or hail?
No alternate wail yet
Do they plan on returning alternate wail?
@@efrensanchez219 i highly doubt it.
1:43 I see a train there lol
also an modulater is there
And. A car
And metra electric
You can also see a siren
@DARK PANIC
i know the mod's are going insane what else am i hereing in this awesome cershendo of sirens? i thought i herd whalens t bolt's and a alternatert2
2001s and Modulators
2:55 a Graham White E-Bell can be heard.
it's a shame that most of the sirens died sounding the wail sound and not the Chicago classic alternate wail. does anybody know how long they went for in total and how many sirens died from it
welp i hope they use power from telephone poles and not a battery
@@yusufrosly3430 they use both. They have battery backup if the power goes out
Honestly they should’ve learned from the LAHAR system for Mt Rainer. All 11 of the 6048’s in the valley have an issue with the drivers popping and crackling, the 4 6024’s have an audio interference issue or something. And it’s from being activated for 4 - 6 minutes in wail every 1st Monday of every month at noon, pre 2020 that is. Surprised the SRNB’s didn’t have any issues from being activated for 5 minutes in wail, 130’s were only around for 5 years so they were obviously fine. Just the motor got a little too hot by an extra 2 minutes.
Their SRN’s motors must have been HOT after all the activations
@@tornadof25 Probably.
you can actually see the modulator at the bottom at 3:24
For me the MC has the best wind up of all the controllers.
I like dual tone MCs the best
They FINALLY fixed the creepy alternate wail tone.
Nice modulators! :)
If i was a tornado i would be going the other fricking direction, so they could turn those creepy sirens off. Thunderbolts sound much better!
Imagine being offshore on a boat and hearing this
one of the siren modulator did that
instead of reverting back to alternate wail
i feel like the electronic sirens should do Hilo And Mechanical Sirens should do fast attack
and the wrigley field modulator can play in fast wail while the other electronic sirens do Hilo.
I can't believe Chicago ran their sirens for like 30 minutes plus. Pretty sure they ended killing a ton of 2001's and probably some mods too.
For the May 25th tornado warning, I was at my school (Harper College in Palatine) for the 4th Activation in parking lot #1. By that time all of Palatine's 2001s were fading and dropping in pitch. I faintly heard Arlington Heights's Whelens, and I heard Hoffman Estates and Rolling Meadows Tempests and Pn 20s a little bit louder. There's a 2001-SRN on Ela Road that was so tired that it sounded like a STL-10 (unless someone in that area has a privatly owned siren).
However, were I was standing in the parking lot, Schaumburg's P50 was exactly 2 miles away. I didn't know P50s can go that long, because that thing was *LOUD. AS. FUCK.* To the point that it drowned out Harper's 2001.
@@vcvcf1896 sheesh. Big yikes for the 2001's. P50s can go on for a lot longer because of the bigger heavy-duty motors they have, also they're only AC units too. No batteries to worry about.
@@vcvcf1896 P-50's can basically run for however long. Because there is a Fan in the back of the motor housing to keep the motor cooled.
@@CentralALSirens like Trevor's P-50 that ran for 30 minutes non stop and did have a slight drop in pitch.
@@johndeerefan725 Yes, exactly.
It has been a whole year since this happened.
At 14:10 it seems there is a modulator
Did they fix the broken tornado siren in chicago
They were never broken
I've filmed how bad it got near Ohare airport! That was scary
0:17 i see the siren in the bottom middle of the screen
and also i think my bro said that he heard an alt wail when he was in the hospital
😅 are those Waylon vortex’s
Nope, 2001s, Modulators and DSAs. Chicago's got a really interesting system.
0:09 siren is that white blob on the bottom of your screen
Love Modulators on MC Controllers
Those Mentos sirens are giving me the mints
Cool Tornado Sirens in Downtown Chicago I Can Hear Federal Signal 2001-DC And Federal Signal Modulator 6024 Doing Alternated Whaled
and btw i heard that alert on tv 3 times as TRIPLE HEADER and it was crazy and i had to record that 3 times and damn boy that was crazy as heck man.
Was there an actual tornado or was it a test???
it was a tornado warning but there was only rotation detected by radar no tornado touch down luckily.
How far away are you from the sirens?
I’m 43 floors up, and the nearest siren is about 1/4 mile (400m) away.
@@darkpanic6335 wow it’s crazy you can hear two sirens
i see the Modulator 6024
Was there a tornado
just rotation in the sky detected by weather radar no touchdown luckily
Chicago can get tornadoes cause there land is flat and tornadoes like flat land but if there's a lake Michigan influence if a tornadoes forms it won't last long if it's tryna go through the buildings in downtown Chicago but it's better to be safe and not sorry that's why they blast them sirens.
Weather enthusiast here to confirm that you're correct on the sirens thing (however they're not just used for tornadoes). However the myth that tornadoes cannot go through downtown areas of cities is very stupid. Tornadoes won't have a hard time ripping up large buildings, let alone anywhere on earth. They'll have a field day whenever and wherever. There have been small whirlwinds observed on Mount Everest, the tallest mountain in the world. A tornado in Utah took out major buildings in Salt Lake City in 1999. _It was an EF2._ It is truly better safe than sorry.
0:15 - Modulator seen.
Thank god
3:14 wind back up
@Jacob Andrews wind up to alternate wail th-cam.com/video/M7weE5O5JcU/w-d-xo.html
@Jacob Andrews it probably sounds like the same wind up as this, but after it hits full pitch, it starts doing the tone
nice video especially when you look down at the street and subway tracks. . I bet that apartment you live in it's very expensive ...
I’m 43 floors up (of 77) and very spoiled (and privileged) to have these views and live near the park, the lakes and everything in my neighborhood. Yes, it’s expensive… but it’s worth it for me.
I live on the top floor of apartments in downtown Dallas and I have a beautiful view. I live in a Low rise apartment complex so the top floor is floor 4 but with 12' ceilings were more like 50' up.
Nice
@@soupwifey I think I’m about 500 feet above ground and I try not to take my views for granted. I’ll be visiting Dallas next weekend and staying at the W downtown… hopefully I’ll have good view and get some timelapses!
@@darkpanic6335 I can walk to that hotel. If you're willing to meet me. My husband is at work so I'm off school during summer so I go out feeding the homeless. I could wagon to the W and feed people on the walk there.
Back at it again, I see...
I’m traveling again for work so I’m lucky to have been home for this… I’m always gonna capture and share anything interesting I see and this certainly qualifies! I had regrets for not getting a longer video last year
@@darkpanic6335 Chicago and their TORs...
Where are these sirens blaring from?
You can see the siren in the park if you look closely
@@owenhumphreys9065 I see a white rectangle. I'm assuming that is the tornado siren.
@@alexvelazquez8263 yes
No that was not.
The 2001s seem to be getting old they sound kinda broken cause of the low pitch
Chicago's sirens were ran for basically 30 minutes straight. The batteries in all the sirens were very drained.
@@thunderbolt10031 and I'm supposing there are no more batteries for those type of sirens because federal signal doesn't make the product anymore?
@@EpicChente30 What? That’s a silly question. All sirens use standard deep cycle batteries. You have to replace them every 2-5 years.
@@EpicChente30Uhh... Federal still makes the 2001 series, including the batteries. Replacing the batteries is something that is part of normal siren maintenance, and getting new ones is easy.
@@ArxCyberwolfPC Yeah. You get the batteries at a local auto parts store.
0:29 I Hear A FS 2001 Going Of In Alert
@Jacob Andrews Oh
Chicagos attack signal has the high tone for like 5 or 6 seconds where as everyone else it's more of a fast attack hut not fast wail... Idk it's strange
Guess they heard of siren head and switched to using wail instead of alternate wail
Glad they did so
Be safe everybody
This is very scary because it creeped me out and I experienced this very very creepy nuclear attack like siren!!!
3:41 I sawed a modulator siren
Aww, why did they get rid of the sirens that sound like a drunken European ambulance that downtown Chicago used to have?!....
they are still there. they changed the sound because of "siren head"
wow the fix that go
d awful creepy siren....welll ish
It's been exactly a year since this happened. This comment was posted today, on June 13, 2023.
wow
also after 5 min my dad came home bc the tornado
This is genuinely frightening, sounds like some doomsday kind of thing. Screw that.
Seems as if Satans ice cream is arriving
This tornado gave me a heart attack
rest in peace old broken one
It was never broken. This is one of the sirens that made that wierd sound. The tone was called “alternate wail”
@Jacob Andrews idk. They could sound it in that tone if they wanted to
@Jacob Andrews yah, I wonder to this day about how the one at wrigley winds up with fast wail
@Jacob Andrews november 17 2013, it was only the farther southeast side of Chicago thst had the tornado warning,
@Jacob Andrews and how would you find archives on earthcam?
Its jordan eas alarm
i dont know if its true
we hear this sound/siren in Ramadan here XD
Why?
@@owenhumphreys9065 its to open our fast during Ramadan month X)
@@sallypark28 ok, just wondering
@@owenhumphreys9065 hi
🙂🙂🙂
2:35 that’s a long wind down
MC Controller
Federal Signal Modulator MC Controller
That day I was eating buffalo wings
siren
Nothing to see here folks.
Nvm about the nuclear attack like sounding.
Sounds like police siren
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I can see a Modulator down there!