I remember my old geography teacher used to say GET DOWN whenever there was a drill and at least one student would fall for it and get down to the floor
It's a test. Here in Tornado Alley tornado sirens are usually tested weekly or at lest monthly to ensure they are in proper working order in an event that a tornado does in fact strike.
Well, for the past two days the sirens have been going off for real. A small tornado formed in NW Oklahoma City on Friday, and there were more tornado warnings on Saturday. We are starting off early this year.
Your county would have these sirens which are Whelen Vortex. The voice sirens tend to run around $15,000 while the vortex runs for near $11,000. The Vortex comes in 3 diferent models, R-2, R-3, and R-4. The Whelen Vortex R-2 is 124dB @100ft, the R-3 is 127dB, and the R-4 is 129dB.
Sirens sirens everywhere! Everywhere I look I see sirens, I look at siren videos all the time, I hear sirens even though there are few sirens in Canada, I can't help it:...I like sirens.
What's really funny is when you have a visitor from out of state. They don't know that the sirens are tested every Saturday at noon. When the sirens go off you can dive into your closet and yell, "holy shit a wall cloud!!" and your friends will dive in the closet too.
yeah, it could get annoying after a while. i remember listening to Norman's sirens every friday i think? i cant remember if it was friday or saturday at noon. they have TBolt 1000ts, SD-10s, t-128s, Thunderbeams, and like 3 xt22s on the WAY outskirts by lake thunderbird.
nothings wrong with it. This is the normal operation of this siren. The whoop, than steady alert signal, is their normal signal. Also Whelen rotational sirens don't continuously rotate. They oscillate, as seen in the video. The 4000 series which looks identical, which is voice capable, stops every 90 degrees to do voice messages. This is a Vortex, which is a tone only siren. The older Whelens have a much higher tone to them.
Here in Edmonton Alberta Canada, we also tornado sirens but scince edmonton has over 1,000,000 people they test em every five years otherwise there would be alot of complaints commin in to the city's Severe Weather Service. Ps this doesn't apply to the counties out of the metro area, the small towns in these counties get monthly testing here.
This is not a whoop signal its an alert. The siren more than likely had a momentary flaw causing it to wind up twice. If it was a whoop signal it would be continuous whooping sound, and it wouldn't go into alert after that. This is the alert signal which Oklahoma city uses for tornado warnings.
I'm glad to see somebody spent their money wisely. Wx Radios should be as common as smoke detectors should be in houses ANYWHERE in the united states. Sirens are meant strictly to warn ppl outside, not ppl inside buildings.
The activation code was not sent twice. They sound like that everytime. The windup is the most attention getting sound so they are programmed to do that. Been that way for years
They ar monted on poles in the ravine on the top of the legeslature and city hall, and they are also mounted on some radio towers as well oh and also some downtown building rooftops. they don;t test them all at once otherwise if one failed they woulnd;t know, so they do a test at each meto area and they check each one individually. also they put theas air raid sirens back up after the 87 f4 twister that swept through edmonton.
@nuzzi7 yeah, they test them every Sat at noon for 3 min. in a real tornado watch they play them for the same time, but if the tornado is close, they play them longer. idk if you know, but oklahoma gets a ton of tornados from march-may
@StickyLickins i live in edmond OK and its just one of those things that doesnt negatively or positively affect me. i just hear them and im like "meh guess there's a tornado somewhere" then i go on the roof looking for it lol...
Ihave a question for you, EvanToTheFutureDude, would you rather have the sirens tested to make sure they work when they are needed or would you rather take the chance that the sirens don't work if a tornado comes through? I grew up in the Union City/El Reno area but I currently live in Michigan and I would like to make sure that the sirens work properly.
These sirens are terrible in comparison to the air raid sirens we had beforehand. The thunderbolts I believe they were called, could be even heard from the inside of your house or building during a heavy storm. Plus one thing I noticed when in the Mustang/Yukon areas, these sirens knock the Cell phone network. Whats up with that?
@nuzzi7 Either a basement, saferoom, or cellar. I live near Tulsa which is 100 miles NE of OKC and ours are tested every wednesday at noon, they are so loud you can hear them 4-6 miles away. Back in the 90s when I was in elementary, we had one on the playground and it went off during recess, you plugged your ears. It is spooky to hear them go off and its not noon wednesday.
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They changed the sirens, they sounded a lot different then this one.
I think the siren is very annoying. It would be better if it went on and off like it did in the first couple seconds instead of one long constant ringing noise. makes your ears hurt? How long do these go on for usually?
Well, they test it at the same time and day every week. Plus, they don't test it if the weather is bad, so there is little chance of anyone thinking it is real when it is only a test.
We just got 12 sirens. First for this county (owen county indiana), they (county council) said they (sirens) cost $10,000. i was wondering do you think they are the voice ones or just the normal. They look just like this.
They are Whelens, and really bite the big one! ASC or Sentry Sirens are much better sounding. Even the old Thunderbolt's made by Federal sound superior to this thing.
@puzox I started to wonder what torando sirens sound like.. rofl I've never been in a torando situation before. Now I know just incase i stay up one night. And the Torando siren rings so I can wake up my parents.
Better than no tornado siren at all... One month before the 2000 Fort Worth tornado, the powers that be were about to abandon our sirens. "Tornadoes never hit Fort Worth anyway," they said. Arrogant buffoons...!
what happens when the siren towers are hit by tornadoes??? who warns the siren tower people????? what if theyre hit by lightning or nukes?? OK - im being stupid....just wondered.....
It’s amazing that sirens were this advanced fifteen years ago.
They have been this advanced since the 1990s at the least.
It's Saturday at noon 👍🏼😂
That old familiar sound we all know and dread living in Oklahoma 😳
Margaret Griffin Classic OKC 😋
I swear I hear it in my sleep now, I’ve heard it so much
@@callmeonyxied7018 that is a nostalgic sound, because I was born in Oklahoma and I remember hearing that sound for tests
@@callmeonyxied7018 Are you sure? I think it sounds pretty cool!
I live here and i love that noise at 12:00 noon
U sarcastic
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I remember my old geography teacher used to say GET DOWN whenever there was a drill and at least one student would fall for it and get down to the floor
I hate having to listen to that thing every Saturday.. 12:00
Lucky! You get sirens and I don't.
Brendan Williams I was visiting OKC for a soccer tournament, lucky us it was a Saturday, then they tested them before the game
Brendan Williams same
Lucky. I would love to listen to that
I lived in Oklahoma City years ago it comes on every Saturday.
It's a test. Here in Tornado Alley tornado sirens are usually tested weekly or at lest monthly to ensure they are in proper working order in an event that a tornado does in fact strike.
i remember every freaking wed. i would hear these...saved our lives though in the may 3 1999 tornado.
Well, for the past two days the sirens have been going off for real. A small tornado formed in NW Oklahoma City on Friday, and there were more tornado warnings on Saturday. We are starting off early this year.
Your county would have these sirens which are Whelen Vortex. The voice sirens tend to run around $15,000 while the vortex runs for near $11,000. The Vortex comes in 3 diferent models, R-2, R-3, and R-4. The Whelen Vortex R-2 is 124dB @100ft, the R-3 is 127dB, and the R-4 is 129dB.
When I was younger, me and my dad would call this the chemical siren because of its color and of the way it sounds
Sirens sirens everywhere! Everywhere I look I see sirens, I look at siren videos all the time, I hear sirens even though there are few sirens in Canada, I can't help it:...I like sirens.
What's really funny is when you have a visitor from out of state. They don't know that the sirens are tested every Saturday at noon. When the sirens go off you can dive into your closet and yell, "holy shit a wall cloud!!" and your friends will dive in the closet too.
yeah, it could get annoying after a while. i remember listening to Norman's sirens every friday i think? i cant remember if it was friday or saturday at noon. they have TBolt 1000ts, SD-10s, t-128s, Thunderbeams, and like 3 xt22s on the WAY outskirts by lake thunderbird.
I love seeing these things go off. Best way to start the weekend by enjoying the sirens :)
The wind up is the most attention getting part so they do that to get your attention.
Sounds pretty good to me. Whelens are just as powerful as a Thunderbolt.
I was able to make this exact tone using audacity sound editor by generating sin waves. I played it in the house and people thought it was a siren.
Me to the siren:
Can you fucking not
nothings wrong with it. This is the normal operation of this siren. The whoop, than steady alert signal, is their normal signal. Also Whelen rotational sirens don't continuously rotate. They oscillate, as seen in the video. The 4000 series which looks identical, which is voice capable, stops every 90 degrees to do voice messages. This is a Vortex, which is a tone only siren. The older Whelens have a much higher tone to them.
Why am I so attracted to sirens?
Here in Edmonton Alberta Canada, we also tornado sirens but scince edmonton has over 1,000,000 people they test em every five years otherwise there would be alot of complaints commin in to the city's Severe Weather Service. Ps this doesn't apply to the counties out of the metro area, the small towns in these counties get monthly testing here.
This is not a whoop signal its an alert. The siren more than likely had a momentary flaw causing it to wind up twice. If it was a whoop signal it would be continuous whooping sound, and it wouldn't go into alert after that. This is the alert signal which Oklahoma city uses for tornado warnings.
My dog hated the sirens before but he’s used to them these days. It’s still annoying even though they are just tests.
its so awesome how it winds up and then shuts off.
i live in eastern colorado and they test our siren everyday at noon.
Those are actually tone-only Vortex R4s in the rural areas of Oklahoma County. They have voice capable WPS-2810s within the city limits though.
I'm glad to see somebody spent their money wisely. Wx Radios should be as common as smoke detectors should be in houses ANYWHERE in the united states. Sirens are meant strictly to warn ppl outside, not ppl inside buildings.
The activation code was not sent twice. They sound like that everytime. The windup is the most attention getting sound so they are programmed to do that. Been that way for years
Good old Oklahoma
Last Thursday, I noticed that this siren was a town over from mine on Route 12. Really close to someone's house. >:(
We have a few of these in Belleville, IL. They use Attack tone, which sounds awesome to me.
the sirens have battery back up so they wont shut down. They only shut down when the EMS sends out the code to turn them off.
Whelens are great sirens, some of the best produced today or ever!!
@JimindaNorth OKC used to have beast sirens but they replaced them with these plastic loudspeakers.
@scienceboy639 no, OKC sends the activation tones twice to make sure every siren gets activated
cool. lucky. lol i miss norman, im planning to move back there someday and train at that huge meteorology school.
They ar monted on poles in the ravine on the top of the legeslature and city hall, and they are also mounted on some radio towers as well oh and also some downtown building rooftops. they don;t test them all at once otherwise if one failed they woulnd;t know, so they do a test at each meto area and they check each one individually.
also they put theas air raid sirens back up after the 87 f4 twister that swept through edmonton.
Its a Digital Reproduction. Same sound as the Still used Rotating Fan models, Which use Compressions of Air to make the sound.
It's always like that as far as I can recall. A short burst then it goes off.
I like the ambience sound of these sirens
I have always wondered the same thing.
I guess we just have to hope that they start the signal before anything happens.
Had a tornado siren test today in Oklahoma
*hears plane go by* “Sargent you hear that?”
ya i just got back from oklahoma this weekend and there was a whole outbreak of tornadoes saturday
@MrKalebtheoufan Not in my opinion. Moore still has operational Thunderbolts.
@nuzzi7 yeah, they test them every Sat at noon for 3 min. in a real tornado watch they play them for the same time, but if the tornado is close, they play them longer. idk if you know, but oklahoma gets a ton of tornados from march-may
This thing doing whoop would be AWSOME.
something in my house in another room is harmonizing with that sound at the same pitch and it sounds really weird... lol.
Yeah these are Whelens. They are Electronic sirens, not mechanical. Columbus OH is covered in Whelens.
No. Their are no mechanical/electromechanical whelens, they are all electronic. Whelen never made pneumatic sirens.
those in wynnewood will be hearing these right now
four 400 watt speaker drivers in 1 big horn.
They stay on for 3 min. every saturday at noon
Originally for nuclear attack warnings if anyone didnt know.
Nope, all Whelens are electronic, which are very similar to rotor/pneumatic sirens just of electronic tone generating and oscillating means.
@StickyLickins i live in edmond OK and its just one of those things that doesnt negatively or positively affect me. i just hear them and im like "meh guess there's a tornado somewhere" then i go on the roof looking for it lol...
Ihave a question for you, EvanToTheFutureDude, would you rather have the sirens tested to make sure they work when they are needed or would you rather take the chance that the sirens don't work if a tornado comes through? I grew up in the Union City/El Reno area but I currently live in Michigan and I would like to make sure that the sirens work properly.
These sirens are terrible in comparison to the air raid sirens we had beforehand.
The thunderbolts I believe they were called, could be even heard from the inside of your house or building during a heavy storm. Plus one thing I noticed when in the Mustang/Yukon areas, these sirens knock the Cell phone network. Whats up with that?
@nuzzi7 Either a basement, saferoom, or cellar. I live near Tulsa which is 100 miles NE of OKC and ours are tested every wednesday at noon, they are so loud you can hear them 4-6 miles away. Back in the 90s when I was in elementary, we had one on the playground and it went off during recess, you plugged your ears. It is spooky to hear them go off and its not noon wednesday.
They changed the sirens, they sounded a lot different then this one.
No the activation cade was sent twice.
I think the siren is very annoying. It would be better if it went on and off like it did in the first couple seconds instead of one long constant ringing noise. makes your ears hurt? How long do these go on for usually?
Nice sound
Well, they test it at the same time and day every week. Plus, they don't test it if the weather is bad, so there is little chance of anyone thinking it is real when it is only a test.
I think the activation tone was sent twice
We just got 12 sirens. First for this county (owen county indiana), they (county council) said they (sirens) cost $10,000. i was wondering do you think they are the voice ones or just the normal. They look just like this.
this whelen actually sounds cool
No, the okc sirens always start up like that i dont know why
I've never heard a tornado siren in my life. But that's because Crosby has a low budget.
I've seen this particular model in Fairfield, Iowa, but never saw a rotating siren that stopped & switched directions.
milano black and white movie-amazing sounds!!!!!!!!!!!!
seems as if the rotator needs oil and the wind up needs to be checked
I do know that the same type as the one in the video did fall off the pole.
no another one not too far away had its wind up at a different time
They are Whelens, and really bite the big one! ASC or Sentry Sirens are much better sounding. Even the old Thunderbolt's made by Federal sound superior to this thing.
@puzox
I started to wonder what torando sirens sound like.. rofl I've never been in a torando situation before. Now I know just incase i stay up one night. And the Torando siren rings so I can wake up my parents.
Where exactly are they? I live in Sherwood Park, and I would love to know. I dont remember hearing any monthly tests to be honest =P
Better than no tornado siren at all...
One month before the 2000 Fort Worth tornado, the powers that be were about to abandon our sirens.
"Tornadoes never hit Fort Worth anyway," they said.
Arrogant buffoons...!
I'm new too first time I heard it I thought it was a Car going fast like when they shift gears
What area do you live in? I have not ever heard them!
is this a dual pulse siren? is this a new model?
the sirens by my house are just cylindrical in shape and stacks vertically. Anybody know the model? Live in the edmond area.
We got these ones that almost look like antennas too
no. the more important question is. how can i put one of these on my car?
I hate the sound of this after may 20,3013 I am a glad survived
do you mean may 20 2013?
Yeah I said that haha
glad you did too, that was a crazy huge tornado
I know especially vortexs
Why did this whelen wind up twice?
does the going in your basement procedure work during tornados??
Ahhh, the state song of Oklahoma!
Yeah, i was thinking the same.
what happens when the siren towers are hit by tornadoes??? who warns the siren tower people????? what if theyre hit by lightning or nukes??
OK - im being stupid....just wondered.....
I think there is one about a mile or so away
I like the 508 siren more but that's just me.... Theses sound neat
I like the ambience of these sirens
+plush &vacuum fan 224 me 2
+Tyler Copeland Cool
Are 508s louder than this?
Idk. I don't think I've ever seen that siren so at the moment, I'm clueless
Nice Vortex! I've filmed the one at 29th near Council, one near 15th and Morgan, and one near 44th and Morgan. I have 72 views, you, 72 thousand...lol
well it might be a vortex.
A Whelen Vortex Siren
wow. every saturday. That must be real annoying.
Hey soonerbadass: been to Ardmore and people don't believe me. Never heard their sirens though. This siren sounds wimpy!
where do u live, i live in kingfisher