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.
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.
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.
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!!
@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".
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 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
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
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!
yeah it is pretty funny. But when you actually hear that voice coming from all around its freaky. The video doesnt do justice at all to what they really sound like
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.
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
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 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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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!
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 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.
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.
@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.
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.
Pretty Neat! We have no tornado warning sirens PEROID, in Dyer Co. Tn. Only in Dyersburg, Newbern, Trimble. There are other rural areas of Dyer Co. that have them, but they raised money through their volunteer fire depts. just to have them. The newly elected county mayor & commissioners should be looking into getting them for county residents. We rely on emails & text messages from our NBC affiliate out of Memphis & our NOAA weather radio for our warnings. However, some county residents don't have this privilege of having the mentioned & our elected county officials need to look into this asap! Bobby Joe Hooper II Dyer Co. Tn.
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...
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.
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!
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
most likely they were all omnidirectional. Some omni whelens still spit out dtmf, but i always thought that was because the older horn ones were also being used in the same group.
I understand, but I ment to say that the sirens maybe would cause even more stress than the tornado itself. We don't have these in The Netherlands.. maybe if we had them I would be more used to it as well.
No, it's already been established that it's a Modulator. Crowley, TX has all Federal Signal MOD6024s with MCP controls. Whelen Vortexes don't have the voice capability, only WPS-4000s and 2900s.
ya. i live on the texas coast near houston so we dont have any down here. never heard one or seen one in my life. when hurrican ike rolled in, it was pretty intense but the tornado outbreak...the only thing to signal a twister was your ears and the news which was rarely on cause of the dang electricity
kind of creppy but if i were there i would be happy to have it there as it has a siren and also a voice to make anyone unaware that this is a emergency.
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 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.
Man. We had a tornado warning in Adams New York and the only problem was that the firewhistle went off. It should've been talking so people won't think its a regular whistle. We never got a tornado. Just a severe thunderstorm with hail lighting and thunder. Carthage New York got a tornado though. Freaking scary. To close for comfort.
weird. tesing usually is the first wednesday of the month only. I do recall hearing it too though. Doubt it was real on a sunny day like today though lol.
"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.
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
Awesome. Love the echoing "This is a tornado warning!!!"
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.
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.
The tornado sirens in Burleson went off last night and the sounded exactly like this! It was so awesome!
*THIS IS GOD TAKE SHELTER NOW*
Ok god!
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.
Tornado warning, shelter imeediately warning seek shelter shelter shelter immediately woooooooooooo
James Christmas 0:22
The Voice of God!
OH MY GOD IT TALKS
NOW THAT'S A SIREN I REALLY WANT
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!!
@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".
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.
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 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
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!
Out of all the videos of talking tornado sirens, this has to be the best one. Very cool!
"That is freakin crazy!" I agree! I've never even heard of talking tornado sirens!
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
Once again thoses sirens are so scary and awesome i wish my city had thoses sirens but we don't get tornomic activitys
every time they go off, It's scares the bejibbons out of me, they are the most eerie noise EVER!!!
Now THAT'S a tornado siren I never heard of. Freaky indeed.
My area has had talking tornado sirens for my entire life. These sirens have a sense of urgency unlike anything I've ever heard.
I miss tornado sirens haha. They make everything more exciting than it really is.
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!
so creepishly quiet after he says "seek shelter," and the dogs barking adds to the creepyness
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!
*this is a tornado warning, seek shelter immediately*
(as he stands outside filming it!)
lmao i love it!
yeah it is pretty funny. But when you actually hear that voice coming from all around its freaky. The video doesnt do justice at all to what they really sound like
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 saw this on here last yr and looked it up again. SCARY STUFF! Glad we dont have talking sirens in Missouri!!
Sounds like a federal signal modulator siren. They are electronic signs with pre programmed voices to indicate warnings, tests etc.
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
Glad our sirens don't talk. It's spooky enough just hearing them but for them to talk that would be eerie.
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
I've only heard tornado sirens twice in my life: one in Williamsburg, VA and Chapel Hill, NC
We've had talking tornado sirens just like that in Kansas for like 10 years.
I miss tornado warnings!! I love storms and stuff like this.
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
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.
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.
Okay that is either a EOWS or a Whelen but that is the coolest siren ever! That's so creepy.
I still love how the sound reverberates from all directions within a half mile or so.
There's multiple sirens.
I... would cry if I heard sirens like that. Just out of pure excitement. Either that... or piss myself.
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
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.
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.
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.
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!
I live in Fort Worth and I never heard it talk but then again I did not move here till 2014.
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.
your sky gives me that trippy kind of feeling when i look upside down while im standing up
i hate that feeling
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.
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.
@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.
Those sirens with that voice might be even more scarier than the tornado itself.. Toooo weird and not comforting for an already stressful situation.
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.
Pretty Neat! We have no tornado warning sirens PEROID, in Dyer Co. Tn. Only in Dyersburg, Newbern, Trimble. There are other rural areas of Dyer Co. that have them, but they raised money through their volunteer fire depts. just to have them. The newly elected county mayor & commissioners should be looking into getting them for county residents. We rely on emails & text messages from our NBC affiliate out of Memphis & our NOAA weather radio for our warnings. However, some county residents don't have this privilege of having the mentioned & our elected county officials need to look into this asap! Bobby Joe Hooper II Dyer Co. Tn.
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...
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 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.
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!
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
Sirens are eerie but the voice is what really scares me! Yikes!
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.
man ive always wanted to see a tornado! :(
shame i live in england they are so cool!
i love the way it echos !!! but man i would shit myself if i lived near one of these sirens!!!
That's the same type of sirens they have in Saginaw, Michigan. I've never heard them in attack mode before.
In the Midwest hearing a tornado siren means run outside and watch for a tornado. 😂
most likely they were all omnidirectional. Some omni whelens still spit out dtmf, but i always thought that was because the older horn ones were also being used in the same group.
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 understand, but I ment to say that the sirens maybe would cause even more stress than the tornado itself.
We don't have these in The Netherlands.. maybe if we had them I would be more used to it as well.
No, it's already been established that it's a Modulator. Crowley, TX has all Federal Signal MOD6024s with MCP controls. Whelen Vortexes don't have the voice capability, only WPS-4000s and 2900s.
yeah the problem is when they go off in the middle of the night
ya. i live on the texas coast near houston so we dont have any down here. never heard one or seen one in my life. when hurrican ike rolled in, it was pretty intense but the tornado outbreak...the only thing to signal a twister was your ears and the news which was rarely on cause of the dang electricity
kind of creppy but if i were there i would be happy to have it there as it has a siren and also a voice to make anyone unaware that this is a emergency.
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 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.
Man. We had a tornado warning in Adams New York and the only problem was that the firewhistle went off. It should've been talking so people won't think its a regular whistle. We never got a tornado. Just a severe thunderstorm with hail lighting and thunder. Carthage New York got a tornado though. Freaking scary. To close for comfort.
Omg I was In Carthage I was asleep but had to go to basment till 9:45
im here in arkansas & we have a thunderbolt..if i heard that kind of siren would of thought the world was ending :O
Damn,that would be so cool if he said "there's a zombie hord on it's way!Seek shelter"That voice is perfect for that,kinda RE sounding voice >=D
that voice would scare me more than anything...talking sirens are over the top,,,too much of a good thing..
that sound has a very strong ominous feeling to it
weird. tesing usually is the first wednesday of the month only. I do recall hearing it too though. Doubt it was real on a sunny day like today though lol.
That echoing voice sounds mighty!
That is the coolest thing i have ever heard!!! I LOVE TX!!
I'm already terrified of tornadoes, but if I heard it TALK
I would totally lose my mind D:
O_O holy shit! those are freaky! if i heard that in the middle of the night....DAMN...
That talking siren is freaking awsome!!! :-)
*siren goes off*
Siren: The darkness is coming! It is not safe to be outside! Seek shelter immediately before you get devoured by it!
Siren: The Nothing is coming. Take Shelter now.
omg wow talking tornado sirens we get stuck with just the regular siren i wish yours would talk
Those sirens sound like something you would hear on Halloween at night when they're going off at once O__O
"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.
the echo voices. that's scarier than a tornado.
not always, they sound them when the NWS has confirmed that there is a funnel cloud forming or a hook signature on dopler radar