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Lots of loud noises and sirens in the vid just FYI
Today were looking into the history of Emergency alerts including EAS and its predecessor, EBS. We're talking White Card Messages, Red Card Message, Nuclear bombs, tornadoes.. (Im just typing stuff for keywords lol might as well through in tornado sirens and atomic and conelrad.) Anyway.. Thanks for watching!!
contents:
0:00 intro
1:26 Nuclear Bombs and the Cold War
2:25 Conelrad
4:04 EBS Emergency Broadcast System
4:43 Attention Signal
5:08 White Card Message EAN 1
5:27 WGN White Card Message
6:02 Red Card Script EAN 2
7:00 Scary EBS Test Examples
8:40 EBS Weather Emergencies Tornado
9:26 NordVPN
10:53 Creepy Local Access Alerts
12:47 SAME tone S.A.M.E.
14:00 EAS Emergency Alert System
15:04 Rare EAS Alerts
15:40 EAS National Tests
16:34 Canada and China Emergency Alerts EAS
17:05 Mock EAS
17:38 WEA Wireless Emergency Alerts
18:08 Hawaii Missile False Alarm
Videos:
The Museum of Classic Chicago Television - WGN Channel 9 - Emergency Broadcast System [White Card Message] - "This is NOT a Test" (1985)
• WGN Channel 9 - Emerge...
Red Card Message: Attack Warning Radio Message: Early 1970s
CONELRAD6401240 - • Attack Warning Radio M...
VHS Land of Videos -Local Access Alert For KQ2 St. Joseph, MO Dec 9, 2003 - • Local Access Alert For...
Compilation of EBS tests:
AntVee Productions - EBS Test Compilation (1969-1996) UPDATE
• EBS Test Compilation (...
Arid - EAS Scenario - Keep the Lights On
• EAS Scenario - Keep th...
Ocled - BBC EAS Scenario - The Sun Vanished (2002)
• BBC EAS Scenario - The...
Absolutely Definite - National Emergency Alert System Test (November 9, 2011)
• National Emergency Ale...
The EAS experience - Tornado Watch EAS: Houston, TX || 4-23-21
• Tornado Watch EAS: Hou...
#EAS #siren #tornado
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When will make another video looking for remains of tornado?
Great video as always! Can you please tell me the name of that soulful and jazzy music that you use at end of your video? I would love to look it up and try to hear the full version if possible. Thanks!
Minor nitpick on the CONELRAD frequencies: they're chosen to throw off enemy bombers whose crews may use the signals from known civilian radio stations to home in on a target.
0:27 as a siren enthusiast I can confirm I have having a meltdown because your using an ACA hurricane sound for a 2001
You look identical as the guy on the channel "letts react"
My childhood trauma was the EAS test going off during Sesame Street 😭
Sorry that you had to go through that 😭😭 Mine was when i was singing mickey mouse theme song and the test going off😭😭
What freaked me out the most was driving down the road and having it come on the radio because... Yikes, you're in a car and I didn't live in town so chances were... You had a ways before getting to legit shelter
It was SpongeBob for me 😭
Was it that infamous tornado drill?
@@Etriland no, we don’t have very many tornadoes in South Texas.
Ah yes, nothing like getting woken up at 3am to an amber alert in a town 40m away
I'm on the edge of two counties, so I programmed my NOAA radio for both. I was woken up for a flood watch at the other end of the county I wasn't in.
I turn those off, its a setting in your phone and they just go away 😇
I got one from a city over an hour away
My brain read this as "40 meters" not "40 miles". I was like... yes, you're gonna get amber alerts for a town you're currently in, my guy.
That close? Nearest amber alert I've gotten was on the other side of the state.
I live here in Hawaii and I experienced receiving that message in the phone that we're about to get nuked back in 2018. Its terrifying. What terrifies me more is that the night before, I was watching those mock EAS videos here in UA-cam, and I even dreamt about it. Then I woke up with that alarm blaring on my phone. Its scary.
question: did the alarm make its way into your dream?
I live in a quiet part of canada near the rockies, but every so often i get dreams like Trudeau (yes, specifically him for whatever reason) sending in the new F-35s with nukes. Not even sure an F-35 is capable of dropping nukes. The TV would be on in the background with the announcer saying “this is the end, goodbye” as footage of the planes release the bombs.
Sorry, that probably did not help your situation, nor will it help mine as i’m overdue for a disaster related dream 😂
3:00 Hi, 9-1-1 Dispatcher here! Kids in the fifties actually wouldn’t have been taught to dial 9-1-1. To those of us who grew up with it, 9-1-1 seems like an eternal fixture, but it’s surprisingly recent!
The first 9-1-1 call was placed in February of 1968. Even after it was designated as a nationwide emergency line, it took a while to catch on. The federal government endorsed the adoption of a standard emergency number in 1973, but only a couple of states adopted the change. It wasn’t until the mid 80s that 9-1-1 as an emergency line was finally implemented across the nation.
Before that, you’d have to call the 7-digit number to the police department in order to report an emergency, or call a local hospital directly to request medical transportation. Some of those old copper lines are still in service, at least where I work, likely because of how many older people call using those numbers.
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thats so cool actually! i always assumed its been around for ages, i didnt know that its a relatively recent thing!
that's really interesting! thanks for the info, i didn't know that
Ah yes, the classic childhood fear of every midwesterner
Yeah, cause only the Midwest has an EAS, right?
@@bogden9585yeah the Midwest is the only region of the US with an EAS.
@@EpicgamerGTG idk if your being sarcastic (which I believe you are lol) but over here in West Virginia we got it lol
@@SouthwesternWVWX I am being sarcastic
@@EpicgamerGTG thats what I thought lol
I used to work overnight in a Meijer store and part of what the cashiers did was monitor the radio during bad weather and alert everyone if a watch or warning was issued. One night I was working with my friend who was terrified of storms due to an experience when she was younger. An alert came over the radio for a flash flood warning and the robo voice said, "If you drive into floodwaters you WILL die!" We looked at each other and said,"did he just say that?", and then we started laughing because we had never heard that before. The good thing was that it broke the tension and fear she was feeling. After that, it became a little in joke between us and would work to calm her down...all I had to do was say,"If you drive into floodwaters, YOU WILL DIE!" and she would laugh. We weren't in any danger of flooding at the store.
On a side note, the poor girl went thru the Henryville tornado a few years later, fortunately it only broke some windows in their mobile home and destroyed her car (they were on the edge of the damage path) but she was okay and she said the flood warning joke kept running thru her head during it
Sending lots of love and good vibes to your friend. No one should have to go through that. ❤
Bonding over the EAS. OK then, I’m here for it
How heartwarming
@@emrilbennett8704 always!!! Gotta bond!
As a fellow Hoosier I remember the Henryville tornado. I was in middle school. My mom pulled me out of school. Luckily I wasn't in the path of the storm but there was a tornado watch for my area.
“Like some of them are genuinely scared”
Yep. My mother grew up at the height of the Cold War. I can’t play my Tornado Siren videos around her because of the memories.
She had nightmares for a week after watching “The Day After”
The Day After is extremely depressing. Watched it for the first time about 13 years. Won't ever watch again.
I'm actually in the EAS community you mentioned, and I've been a part of it for nearly 6 years. This is one of the best videos explaining it that I've seen. Normally people just group in CONELRAD, EBS, EAS, and local emergencies all in one, despite them being their own separate things. Not to mentioned you actually talked about how the SAME codes work as well, nobody ever really does that. Loved this vid for all of those things :)
We had DirectTV when I was a kid. I slept with the TV on. When a recorded show ends, it switches back to live programming. Out of all the live programs it could've chosen, it put on an 8-hour infomercial about missing children and their specific situations. 7 year old me, right next to the window where the woods is watching our house, was too scared shitless to get up and change the channel, so I was up most of the night worried about getting kidnapped.
happened to me lol
Damn
Same here
oh dang dude, that's the worst lol
You perfectly tapped into my 10 year long hyperfixation, this is my favorite video ever now
same here but with severe weather (so a natural portion of it!), i started freaking out when my city was featured because i was shocked id never heard of it 😭
FINALLY I HAVE FOUND MY PEOPLE
@@icansensemymothersdisappoi2954We have arrived!!
@@icansensemymothersdisappoi2954BRO SAME
EAS mocks?
As a young boy I was extremely brontophobic. Mixed with weather alerts like these, it was nightmare fuel. I was COMPLETELY different as I got older and to this day I absolutely love thunderstorms and also went through a tornado craze, which seems to come back every year. Love this channel and content!
Holy shit the first photo on google for brontophobia scared the shit outta me
@@Idkwhattoput151what is it?
@@PWKAviationandRCYT it’s a girl running with a baby from a cloud with a face
WTH lol
For 1990's tech it's pretty amazing that it works. I've been the Chair for the EAS committee in orange County California for almost 20 years (stepped down at the end of 2022). If you ever have questions, let me know. I also made a video about the National Periodic Test with audio samples. There was an EAN test in Alaska in 2011, I think, that tested the whole chain from FEMA to the White House to the broadcast stations. This was because they didn't really have any procedures for testing to the public before. That Alaska EAN Test will be what an EAN would sound like today.
I’m turning 58 this year, I remember absolutely freaking out one May afternoon in 1974 when I was eight years old outside St.Louis in my hometown of Alton, Illinois.
A tornado warned storm was In the immediate vicinity and my Mom had a local St.Louis area AM radio station on.
I went to the window looked out and happened to see what I know now was rotating wall cloud going over the neighborhood.
At the exact same time the EBS warning tone came over the radio about the storm.
That memory is seared into my brain.
That’s why I am a tornado freak now.😐☺️
No way bro I live in Springfield. It was pretty crazy during the March 31, April 1 of 2023 outbreak.
@Bluesbetter7491 April 1 was crazy. It was my first sighted tornado, and it was a stove-pipe. It did EF-1 damage, some of which is still visible, bit ot took out the greenhouse.
oh fuck that, terrifying
I remember that outbreak in 74 in the deep South & the 4/27/2011 one that featured a long track tornado I watched on video form in Tuscaloosa & came within .09 of a mile from my home just outside Birmingham an hour later. You never forget the experience.
They probably had those old Conelrad sirens powered by old gas motors.. There's one in my hometown, still works too. I went to grab a meal from a local takeout place *right across the street from it!!* and that thing went off due to a bad storm in a town north of me that had a tornado touch down and go back up.i'm pretty sure i had temporary deafness for an hr after it went off.
I think one the reasons the analog horror series local 58 resonates with a lot of people is because it mimics the kind of dread an EAS gives people. I’m used to the tornado message but it still freaks me out when I hear the sirens.
yep, found it though weather warning and that’s what got me into analog horror in general.
The alert is unnerving enough but when the alarms go off along with it makes it more horrifying
The sirens are normal for me, in most parts of the Midwest it’s required they’re tested once a month. Now when I hear the siren it just reminds me it’s a Wednesday
That is actually true
The sound of that screeching tone, combined with a Thunderbolt, haunted the collective nightmares of Midwestern children.
Also in the Southeast
At my school recently, EAS went off on peoples' phones. Usually it's amber alerts, but the day was supposed to be rainy so I thought it would be a flash flood warning or something, but NO, it was a tornado alert. Apparently there was an EF3 tornado about 30 minutes away from the school. Our school didn't do anything about it and my friends joked about it so we were chill for most of the time. Most of the people in the class left early due to flash flooding, but the storm subsided hours later. It was only me and a few other people left in the class.
It was very terrifying at first whenever people started talking about it
that happy and cute alert cracked me up so much
Thanks. Now please go to the basement. 😁🤗
instagram reels ahh comment 😭😭
GOD LOVES U ALL REPENT
@@jdaluvsjesus No!
Japan eas moment
Canadian here, I shit you not, when an EAS happens on radio, most of the time, there is a prerecorded voice that plays just to prepare us to hear it because, when you are not expecting it, I wouldn’t be surprised if it gave someone an actual heart attack.
There is one time we heard it a lot in the spend of like… 30 minutes to an hour last year, but then again, it was because of the tornado that dropped near Montreal.
(Speaking of which: JESUS that storm just wanted to scare everyone. The day before it dropped a tornado near Chicago, iirc, and it lifted right before hitting the city, then, the next day, it dropped one in an Ottawa suburb, and remember that Ottawa is the country’s capital, and it lifted before hitting Ottawa proper, then it dropped one near Montreal and missed the city… THAT STORM CHOSE CHAOS!)
Now that’s one wicked storm. It woke up and said: 💃💃💃
oh man, I remember this. I’m Texas born and raised but was living in MTL studying French, and I was napping when it went off the first time. I’d never heard the Canadian alert sound, and I had my headphones in when it went off on my phone… you can imagine what that was like.
after it was all over, I had to laugh. tornadoes happen in TX all the time, but it’s ironic that the closest call I’ve ever had with one was not in TX, but in MONTRÉAL of all places hahaha
@@93Deli LOL! What are the chances?
The tornado warned storms from last summer were insane! Vaudreuil in Quebec was hearing it go off every half hour as that Ottawa storm quickly made its way down the Ottawa river along with another storm system coming up southern Ontario from the St-Lawrence from Kingston. It missed us, but it was absolutely insane. Watching the SCUD clouds dip down and the rotation in the clouds as so spooky.
If storms had morality: #ChaoticNeutral
I have autism. I use Bluetooth headphones to muffle background noise. Which leads me to a fun fact: tornado alerts are LOUD through headphones. Like, rip the headphones off and almost cry, loud. Hate those things…
11:40 Oh god, we had those exact ones back in the day that would scare me shitless. If I knew storms were around, I would only watch TV with the volume way down.
During the 1950's and 60's, there was a very passionate NWS meteorologist here in Topeka that locked horns with the Feds about siren usage. They said that under no circumstances any entity but them was to use them. Well, our local NWS guy was NOT impressed with the Feds and told them for tornado warnings the steady tone would be used and the wavering tone could be used for nuclear attacks. They kicked up a fuss, but eventually gave in. Fast forward to June 8th 1966, when all the Thunderbolt sirens sounded at 7PM....warning of an impending F5.....saving countless lives. I have the late Richard Garrett, that passionate meteorologist, to thank for my existence. My folks were a direct hit, and if it weren't for the sirens at that time I wouldn't be here. Legendary Bill Kurtis is also part of the weather history here too.....this will forever be associated with him.....For God's sake...TAKE COVER!!
GOD LOVES U ALL REPENT
At one time the US Weather Bureau, and later the National Weather Service, Severe Storms Forecast Center was in Kansas City.
The Severe Storms Research Center was in Norman Oklahoma. These have been combined and are now in Norman. The merged entity is called The Storm Prediction Center.
In case anyone is wondering the Storm Prediction Center issues Severe weather outlooks and issues watches. Local NWS offices issues warnings.
I remember as a kid, I was downstairs of my house and the Emergency Alert System appeared on the TV. The EAS would scare me as a kid so much I'd be so scared to go up to the TV because I thought a 'monster' would jump out and kidnap or kill me. Similar to the 'bad man' or the 'stranger' those words scared me. 🤣
@@jdaluvsjesus you were made by humans you're ones and zeros you can't be addicted to religion if you're literally an android
@@nameless.402 I don't know if that is a bot or not, but if it is a bot, than it only does what it is programmed to do. If it is a person, than he is following the Great Commission, but maybe not in the most tasteful way.
Years ago I was watching vsauce videos. I feel asleep and it starting playing the vid where he is talking about nuclear war. I woke up to a mock EAS that was saying every major US city was about to get hit with nuclear weapons. I was living in Chicago at the time… Truly one of the scariest moments in my life hahaha
Dang 😂😂
Love that story 🤣
LMFAO the creator did their job they got you good
Damn
That'll wake you up in a hurry! 🤯
I missed a bunch of emergency alerts on my phone for weird reasons, but the tv alerts are still going strong, even interrupting DVR recordings, on demand movies, and streaming services just for tests. Annoying as they are, I kinda hope they never abandon the lo-fi analog look and vibe. It’s iconic.
6:40 Hus voice is actully calming, it's just the siren that gets me
Nothing scarier than static noise coming from the radio when disconnecting and reconnecting the battery on a Ford. Of course they designed it so that the volume is cranked.
Sounds like, pun intended, that you have another problem as none of my many Fords has done that. Your noise suppressor, usually mounted on the alternator that resembles a capacitor with a wire like a condenser is bad or has been removed. Hope this helps.
@@davidpawson7393 I’m a mechanic. I’ve had many Ford vehicles do this. They default to a AM station with no radio signal. Typically on ones ranging from the year 2000-2012 I’d say. Considering the likes on my comment, others have heard this as well.
@@ThatGuy-sd3zl ...
In truth, reading that, gave me quite the giggle. I can imagine it quite vividly. 🤭
GOD LOVES U ALL REPENT
@@jdaluvsjesus Repentance is not done by praying to a dead Jew god on a stick invented by Roman’s. You want the truth, go follow the Torah.
Deut 4:15, 16. וְנִשְׁמַרְתֶּ֥ם מְאֹ֖ד לְנַפְשֹׁתֵיכֶ֑ם כִּ֣י לֹ֤א רְאִיתֶם֙ כָּל־תְּמוּנָ֔ה בְּי֗וֹם דִּבֶּ֨ר יְהוָ֧ה אֲלֵיכֶ֛ם בְּחֹרֵ֖ב מִתּ֥וֹךְ הָאֵֽשׁ׃
For your own sake, therefore, be most careful-since you saw no shape when Hashem your God spoke to you at Horeb out of the fire-
פֶּ֨ן־תַּשְׁחִת֔וּן וַעֲשִׂיתֶ֥ם לָכֶ֛ם פֶּ֖סֶל תְּמוּנַ֣ת כָּל־סָ֑מֶל תַּבְנִ֥ית זָכָ֖ר א֥וֹ נְקֵבָֽה׃
not to act wickedly and make for yourselves a sculptured image in any likeness whatever: the form of a man or a woman,
Deut 4:35 אַתָּה֙ הָרְאֵ֣תָ לָדַ֔עַת כִּ֥י יְהוָ֖ה ה֣וּא הָאֱלֹהִ֑ים אֵ֥ין ע֖וֹד מִלְבַדּֽוֹ׃
It has been clearly demonstrated to you that Hashem alone is God; there is none beside Him.
Deut 4:39. וְיָדַעְתָּ֣ הַיּ֗וֹם וַהֲשֵׁבֹתָ֮ אֶל־לְבָבֶךָ֒ כִּ֤י יְהוָה֙ ה֣וּא הָֽאֱלֹהִ֔ים בַּשָּׁמַ֣יִם מִמַּ֔עַל וְעַל־הָאָ֖רֶץ מִתָּ֑חַת אֵ֖ין עֽוֹד׃
Know therefore this day and keep in mind that Hashem alone is God in heaven above and on earth below; there is no other.
Deut 6:4 שְׁמַ֖ע יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֵ֖ינוּ יְהוָ֥ה ׀ אֶחָֽד׃
Hear, O Israel! Hashem is our God, Hashem is One.
Deut 6:13 אֶת־יְהוָ֧ה אֱלֹהֶ֛יךָ תִּירָ֖א וְאֹת֣וֹ תַעֲבֹ֑ד וּבִשְׁמ֖וֹ תִּשָּׁבֵֽעַ׃
Revere only Hashem your God and worship Him alone, and swear only by His name.
Deut 32:39 רְא֣וּ ׀ עַתָּ֗ה כִּ֣י אֲנִ֤י אֲנִי֙ ה֔וּא וְאֵ֥ין אֱלֹהִ֖ים עִמָּדִ֑י אֲנִ֧י אָמִ֣ית וַאֲחַיֶּ֗ה מָחַ֙צְתִּי֙ וַאֲנִ֣י אֶרְפָּ֔א וְאֵ֥ין מִיָּדִ֖י מַצִּֽיל׃
See, then, that I, I am He; There is no god beside Me. I deal death and give life; I wounded and I will heal: None can deliver from My hand.
Exodus 20:2-3 אָֽנֹכִ֖י֙ יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֑֔יךָ אֲשֶׁ֧ר הוֹצֵאתִ֛יךָ מֵאֶ֥רֶץ מִצְרַ֖יִם מִבֵּ֣֥ית עֲבָדִֽ֑ים׃
I am Hashem your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, the house of bondage: לֹֽ֣א יִהְיֶֽה־לְךָ֛֩ אֱלֹהִ֥֨ים אֲחֵרִ֖֜ים עַל־פָּנָֽ֗יַ
You shall have no other gods besides Me.
1 Samuel 2:2 There is none as holy as Hashem, for there is none besides you, and there is no Rock like our G-d.
1 Samuel 15:29 Moreover, the Eternal One of Israel does not relent, for He is not a Human that He should relent.
2 Samuel 7:21-22 It is because of Your word and Your desire the You have bestowed all this greatness [upon me], and informed your servant of it; because You are great, Hashem, G-d, for there is none like You and there is no god besides You, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
Jeremiah 31: 31-34
הִנֵּ֛ה יָמִ֥ים בָּאִ֖ים נְאֻם־יְהֹוָ֑ה וְכָרַתִּ֗י אֶת־בֵּ֧ית יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל וְאֶת־בֵּ֥ית יְהוּדָ֖ה בְּרִ֥ית חֲדָשָֽׁה׃
See, a time is coming-declares Hashem-when I will make a new covenant with the House of Israel and the House of Judah.
לֹ֣א כַבְּרִ֗ית אֲשֶׁ֤ר כָּרַ֙תִּי֙ אֶת־אֲבוֹתָ֔ם בְּיוֹם֙ הֶחֱזִיקִ֣י בְיָדָ֔ם לְהוֹצִיאָ֖ם מֵאֶ֣רֶץ מִצְרָ֑יִם אֲשֶׁר־הֵ֜מָּה הֵפֵ֣רוּ אֶת־בְּרִיתִ֗י וְאָנֹכִ֛י בָּעַ֥לְתִּי בָ֖ם נְאֻם־יְהֹוָֽה׃
It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers, when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, a covenant which they broke, though I espoused them-declares Hashem
כִּ֣י זֹ֣את הַבְּרִ֡ית אֲשֶׁ֣ר אֶכְרֹת֩ אֶת־בֵּ֨ית יִשְׂרָאֵ֜ל אַחֲרֵ֨י הַיָּמִ֤ים הָהֵם֙ נְאֻם־יְהֹוָ֔ה נָתַ֤תִּי אֶת־תּֽוֹרָתִי֙ בְּקִרְבָּ֔ם וְעַל־לִבָּ֖ם אֶכְתְּבֶ֑נָּה וְהָיִ֤יתִי לָהֶם֙ לֵֽאלֹהִ֔ים וְהֵ֖מָּה יִֽהְיוּ־לִ֥י לְעָֽם׃
But such is the covenant I will make with the House of Israel after these days-declares Hashem I will put My TORAH into their inmost being and inscribe it upon their hearts. Then I will be their G-d, and they shall be My people.
וְלֹ֧א יְלַמְּד֣וּ ע֗וֹד אִ֣ישׁ אֶת־רֵעֵ֜הוּ וְאִ֤ישׁ אֶת־אָחִיו֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר דְּע֖וּ אֶת־יְהֹוָ֑ה כִּֽי־כוּלָּם֩ יֵדְע֨וּ אוֹתִ֜י לְמִקְּטַנָּ֤ם וְעַד־גְּדוֹלָם֙ נְאֻם־יְהֹוָ֔ה כִּ֤י אֶסְלַח֙ לַֽעֲוֺנָ֔ם וּלְחַטָּאתָ֖ם לֹ֥א אֶזְכָּר־עֽוֹד׃ {ס}
No longer will they need to teach one another and say to one another, “Heed Hashem”; for all of them, from the least of them to the greatest, shall heed Me-declares Hashem. For I will forgive their iniquities,And remember their sins no more.
17:30 yes TV and radio are "outdated" but the thing about radio (from my highschool comm tech teacher, who used to work in a radio) is that radio will NEVER disappear. It's extremely reliable and powerful. There's a good chance most people still have access to a radio receiver. FM and AM frequency waves can propagate very large distances, and most portable radios are very cheap and easily powered by replaceable batteries. Should there be a MASSIVE crisis such as the grid going offline, there's a good chance a lot of cell towers and ISPs going offline. Backup generators can only last so long, and during times of crisis those cell towers will be overwhelmed (or crippled) as people trying to communicate with loved ones or trying to figure out what is going on. Plus cell phones suck these days, don't last long, and not a lot of people have a high capacity battery bank. But radio, is very simple and a perfect backup communication, as they can transmit important emergency information that could be picked up from other cities, since there's probably at least one radio transmission tower in most cities, so you have that extra redundancy if a local radio tower goes down, you might still picked up something from another city.
Also fun fact, that Canadian alert sound is also used on modern phones and also used for amber alerts. It's very scary and annoying to get an amber alert for a missing person that is 6 hours north of you in the middle of the night.
Indeed
Crank radios also exist, so even if you loose power it can be used. Live in a bad flooding area along with occasional tornados, so ive always been a little interested
More annoying than scary, actually, kick out scary and add in frustrating and that's how Amber Alerts make me feel. To be honest, when it comes to Flight/Freeze/Fight triggers, Amber Alerts always, at least for me, trigger, the *_FIGHT_* response. Makes me wanna go and *_kick some arse._* I'm not kidding.
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So, ask me again why I play FPS games. Ask me again why I use *_Brutal DooM. Catharsis,_* it really soothes a Fight response.
I have anxiety and a particular fear about the internet/phones suddenly no longer working, and it never occurred to me until I read your comment that radio would still work in that scenario. So thank you for giving me a bit of hope should my fears materialize!
And many cell phones have FM receivers built in. Not as common these days, given the trend of removing headphone jacks (headphone cables are what's used as FM antennae by cell phones that have the feature), but be sure to check compatibility on your current phone and any old ones you may have laying about. If cell goes out in a crisis, you may need it.
Love your videos. Just one note: 911 wasn't developed till 1968. A lot of people had to memorize the number of their local police. In my 1st grade class demo in the mid 70s, the firefighter spoke about 911 like it was brand new.
As someone who was born in Canada, nothing is scarier than that alert coming from your phone either
a) At 3am
b) In a public space where hundreds of phones go off at the same time
I'm ASD. One of my earliest memories is being 5 years old and having a full blown panic attack from an Emergency Alert that went off during a children's TV show I was watching during the morning sometime in 1990.
Honestly its ingenious
It gets your attention no matter who you are
It says SOMETHING IMPORTANT IS OCCURING! LISTEN UP
SAME 😭😭😭😭
what does asd stand for again
@@asychr0n0us Autism Spectrum Disorder, the disability I have
@@asychr0n0usautism spectrum disorder
That “don’t turn the lights off” mock EAS has literally horrified me for over a year 😭
Same
I regret watching that one. I didn’t even really watch it, I did that thing where you hover over the video and it starts playing without volume, but I did that at like 10pm before I went to bed…
The city I grew up in (Scottsbluff NE) used the sirens way before 1976 for tornadoes. I remember tornado warning sirens when I was in elementary school. When I was in second grade (1969) I remember my parents waking me up in the middle of the night to go to the basement because there was a tornado. I remember the siren sounding the alert tone. Same thing happened when I was in kindergarten (1967). My mother told me to go out and get the dog from the dog pen but there was no way I was going to go outside with that siren sounding for a tornado.
Excellent video! I've been into all the conelrad/ebs/eas stuff since I was a kid in the late 80s-90s. This was really well put together and included a ton of relevant information in a pretty efficient package.
That distorted EBS test gave me actual chills. Growing up these scared the everloving shit out of me, especially having been through multiple tornadoes. Even now as an adult, they trigger an innate fear that my house is about explode in a roar of wind.
I can see why.
Even if explained, I can see how it would still trigger such responses. Trauma never goes away; *_Yume Nikki_* demonstrates that very well.
I literally was born and live where Amber Hagerman lived and got kidnapped in Arlington Texas so here the EAS is associated with Amber Alerts because there are so many children getting kidnapped 😭
The EAS does still have a very practical use today. The National Weather Service broadcasts EAS alerts over NOAA Weather Radio to activate household weather alert radios. These radios receive and decode the SAME headers so they can play a specific siren and display a specific message for each alert. Even when they're not sounding off, the band still uses "the voice" to tell regular weather information or relay previous alerts that are still effective. These radios have existed for decades and are still widely used as another form of emergency notification in individual homes.
Like tornado sirens, people have huge fascinations with then and have huge collections of tens or hundreds of different models. There is a wide range of information available on UA-cam or the Internet in general, and it's definitely worth the search if you're interested.
Hi. I love those things. I got my first little handheld last week!
Yeah I'm mostly aware of that chattering robot voice telling me that "tomorrow, expect a high of 73 degrees, under partly cloudy skies".
When I was around the age of 3-5 I went to my grandmas house on the weekends so my mom could go to work and I remember every day on this certain news channel, they would do a test and I thought things like, a war breaking out, an angry dog on the loose, or a tornado was on the way or something terrible like that. Every time there’s a thunderstorm I immediately think back to those times.
I grew up on military bases the first 17 years of my life and during that that time attended military base schools and vast majority military student population schools and academies. I am now in my sixth decade and have specific and intense memories. I also lived in many tornado active areas and to this day have an alert radio and keep my cell phone on and next to the bed. I have taught everyone in my immediate family weather, police and fire safety planning. Yes, we have a specific meeting point in the event of a fire or carbon monoxide warning. Having worked in Emergency healthcare, law enforcement and a volunteer firefighter for 30+ years, the are energy medical, survival and “personal protection’ equipment in each vehicle and every level (floor) of our homes.
I appreciate and enjoy your videos! Keep up the great work and I often send your UA-cam videos to old friends and family often to say “do you remember these or that event”.
I was convinced as a child that every EAS warning was the inevitable nuclear attack. Truly terrifying every dang time. Ugh.
Somehow you gotta do a collab with Pecos Hank…just talk about tornadoes for a whole dang video haha
i strongly approve this.
@@RussianStormsame here
YES PLEASE
Immediately.
2024 is really going to be the year of the fan-forced collabs isn’t it? Ehhh Swegle and Hank operate differently, it would just be super awkward.
I’ve been a subscriber for years now back in the days where you mainly covered tornado paths and their destruction. It’s great to see your channel getting more popular and always look forward to your content drops every week 👊🏼
I remember the EAS back in the 80s and 90s until it got phased out. All before everyone had a cellphone or a smartphone. The Thunderbolt was just as traumatizing as seeing the warning or test on TV or hearing it on the radio.
Scariest wea alert i got was driving my semi through Springfield MO and that alert went off while i was in bumper to bumper traffic. I started reading it just as the tornado sirens went off.
All i could do was message my family in Michigan and tell them what color and my truck number and what exit i was near, and if they didn't hear back in an hour, alert the local authorities to look for me.
Luckily i was eventually able to get my semi to a pull off, then a rest area with a tornado shelter
Let me guess, you were driving for Prime?
@turtle2448thomas no lol. Never drove for that company. I was with a company called Rush Trucking at that time. Drove for Crete for quite a while before that, and started with swift haha.
It really sucks to be on the road when that alert goes off and there is no cover for miles. All you can do is try to stay out of it.
That China countdown was meant for earthquakes. It's supposed to count down to when the earthquake is supposed to hit the area. I've seen many videos of it where someone is videoing from their apartment and the sirens outside have the countdown going, and right when it stops and the alarm hits, the quake starts.
There's also phone alert with the same countdown system.
That's amazing that technology is advanced enough to know the second an earthquake hits beforehand
It was infinitely creepier for me to be casually listening to this video, getting Local 58 vibes, and then hear you mention St. Joseph, Missouri twice, the town where I've lived my entire life.
Yea when these would go off on the TV I would literally get this feel of terror and distress, honestly so scary, I used to have nigh terrors and id hear them all the time in them
Everytime the EAS does the test of it or a warning of some sort, I get chills down my back and arms, don't know why
OMG me too!! The old-school EBS attention signal always gives me goosebumps on my arms, and my neck muscles tighten up. My kids don't believe it! Fortunately for me, EAS and WEA don't cause this same reaction.
Oh, and @SwegleStudios ... Putting up the Civil Defense CD triangle logo also caused the same exact goosebumps and muscle tightening!!! Makes me think it's an anxiety response, not just a psychoacoustic phenomenon.
Excellent video. Maybe someday I'll unpack all this hidden trauma caused by watching TV in the early 1980s!
it's doing exactly what it should, scare everyone shitless because that's the kind of situation it's meant for. Probably also contributes to us reacting more to it, i.e. when sleeping or something like that (can confirm it does, I forgot about our first nation-wide test for cell broadcast EAS in Germany and slept right up until 11AM, that incessent beep from my nightstand made me shoot up in seconds. Great alternative since our govt doesn't bother maintaining the sirens we have, you can barely hear them in a silent neighborhood in the backyard)
@@uxsquaredI've never seen that logo before today, yet I get that same feeling, and my eyes get teary for some reason, even when I think about it. I think it is because of how similar that logo is to the top of the Eye of Providence pyramid. For some reason, I wonder if, even though it is supposed to be a symbol of God's watching over us, it is a demonic symbol of some kind. My Dad's first though upon seeing the Eye of providence on the US dollar was that it was a demonic symbol. Why else would I have the goosebumps, muscle tightening, teary eyes, and uneasiness about that CD triangle?
Because Heaven forbid we get the one that’s not a test.
A small community in my state was hit by a tornado on Palm Sunday in 1994 causing the death of 20 people who were attending church services. As a result, more tornado sirens were installed in the community. One siren was about 50 yards from the local high school. The base of this siren was within feet of the football practice field. When that siren went off during school hours, it induced panic unlike anything I've ever witnessed....a shared panic related to a catastrophic event. It was truly an out of body experience to witness this panic first hand.....I witnessed someone go into what amounts to a trance, walk out of the school building and go home...without saying a word.
Doubt it
@@bogden9585who tf would make up something like this, add small details, then post it on a mid-size weather YT channel for clout
@shortking-vp9vv fr bruh i was about to say that smh
My high school had a siren right in our front lawn. Never scared me, but it was very loud since it was so close
@@bogden9585
You probably think the Earth is flat, too
The fact that you used the Sears Air Conditioning commercial from the mid '90s in the opening sequence, makes me love your channel even more!
This is an awesome video! Thanks for the explanations. We had an EAS test broadcast over our cable TV many years ago that was mostly a distorted pop country radio station with the recorded message smashed underneath. That was the scariest warning I’ve ever heard.
i’ve been waiting for a dedicated EAS video on this channel
very epic.
It’s a topic I never knew I needed. This was a good one.
YOOOO I FOUND YOU WITHOUT LOOKING WASSUP BOI
@@daystriker1680 YOOOO WASSUP
@@Depressed_Cuboid YOOOO
0:55 is basically what Earthquake warnings in Japan are like 😂
But yeah I love how he always talks about the super nerdy and creepy stuff I'm fascinated with like tornadoes, sirens, nukes, etc. He should do a video on numbers stations too! Also it wasn't just cars, I believe at one point all radios had to have the CONELRAD frequencies marked with a civil defense triangle.
Love the Perfect Dark music in the background. Nice video.
Just came across your channel a few days ago. I’ve learned more the past couple days than I have in the past couple years haha.
I live in a rural neighborhood, we only have one Tornado siren that's farther in town, so out where I am, you can't hear it. I actually purchased my own 150db bi directional siren that runs off a 110 power supply.
The in town siren is tested every first Tuesday of the month, and I test mine on the same time as theirs.
During severe storms, I keep an ear out, listening to the National Weather Service and activating my siren if a Tornado Warning is issued for my county. Usually, it's supposed to be a backup since people out in the neighborhood can barely hear the one in town.
What’s scary for me is we don’t have super loud sirens near where we live. If we are sound asleep and a tornado comes we could be in trouble. Thankfully our dogs howl at it when they test Mondays at noon.
@paulstejskal have you looked at getting a weather radio?
That's an awesome move!
@@shainamathey9391 no but it isn’t a bad idea. They had them at a bank and it came in handy one year when we were there.
Honestly, bless you for this. I would absolutely LOVE my own siren. Been fascinated by them since I was a kid. You’ll save someone’s life with that thing!!
The Hawaii aleart was actually an EAS alert, that also set off a WEA alert, the main video from it is a EAS banner interrupting a Basketball game. But very few people even mention WEA’s existence, good on you!
I was chilling with the other alert sounds, but as soon as I heard the S.A.M.E sound, you had my full attention
Very informative - couple of things about the EAS: the tones are really used to turn on an alert feature of certain radios. There are “weather radios” that are always on and listening for these tones, at which point will show on their displays information from the tones - then the radio will turn down the squelch to play the broadcast - at the end of the broadcast is another set of tones, telling the radio that the broadcast is over and thus turning the squelch back up, effectively turning off the audio. The NWS has 7 total frequencies that are constantly playing the weather broadcast over the air - many cheap walkie-talkies have these programmed in so you can tune to them and listen constantly. Some other two-way radios can go a step further and visually alert you if an EAS alert is being sent (say if you turned down your radio). This is a very low-detail expansion and doesn’t cover certain aspects or nuances of the system. Great video!
i’m so glad you mentioned eas mock scenarios! i love watching those scenarios, there’s some really amazing ones such as a scenario about an ef6 in texas, or one called don’t look up about a super nova causing people who look at it to freeze in place. others i like are the awakening and industrial fire, both are pretty good zombie outbreak scenarios.
And one about wendigoes and the polar express
I love them too! Some are goofy, but some are SUPER creepy.
Don't Look Up is insane
Where do you find these? Are they available here on UA-cam (and what should I search to find them)? Edit: I just got to that point in the video, definitely going to have to give these a go!
@@jjmetrejhon1743 there are plenty on UA-cam. To find them I'd recommend searching EAS scenario
Living in New Jersey in the 1970s , (not a tornado state), these darn things were just annoying!! "BEEEEEEP BEEEEEEP THIS IS A TEST OF THE EMERGENCY BROADCAST SYSTEM. THIS IS ONLY A TEST." We would just sigh and wait for our program to come back on.
This is so fascinating to look into, thanks for the deep dive today!
Great video! My work with the EAS is by far my favorite part of my day job.
The EAS is unfortunately very under-supported. The State Emergency Communication Committees that manage state plans are so often understaffed and there isn’t a lot of energy to invest in a system being supplanted by WEA.
It has a really terrible failure rate. In the 2021 test >10% of participants failed to receive a signal, and a satellite constellation (Premiere) and multiple other PEPs failed to transmit audio. However, there’s reason to expect improvement: the last test was an improvement on 2019 test, and a lot of effort is being made to ensure greater network redundancy.
Hearing that last part was nice... when Weather Channel was my favorite channel.. I always watched it while in the hospital.. I used it to help me sleep.. I sit there for awhile watching it and fall asleep eventually.
I thought I was the only one! I loved having The Weather Network on for background noise all day & to sleep at night. Now I just use Spotify & music, plus a dimmed light in my bedroom to sleep.
The song "Fallout Shelter" by Scott Peters is where I learned the Conelrad frequency, but didn't know the context at the time.
"You'll be living like a king in your fallout pad, dial six four o - twelve four o - conelrad"
When I was in high school I had a brief hyperfixation on the EAS and nuclear strikes after I found a post on tumblr that had the alarm audio from that one 15 min scenario about a nuclear attack on Kansas. The whole thing is super creepy because all you see is a black screen (and I *think* the analog font?) and hear the warnings as they come in (watch in the dark at your own risk). But the initial warning combines the air raid siren with the SAME code tones and TTS voice and it’s just so masterfully done that you feel actual terror listening to it. Anyway, after I found that post, for a while I just watched a lot of EAS vids cuz it was like, I was so scared of it that I had to see more of it. It was like satisfying a morbid curiosity. But after enough times of rewatching that 15 min nuclear attack vid I became so terrified of those tones and of the idea of hearing them just before a nuclear attack warning (watching The Day After in my senior year of high school, completely on my own volition btw, did not help). I started getting sweaty hands and the shakes whenever I would see an EAS-type screen or hear the alarm on a weekly test on TV. Nowadays I still get a little jolt of the heebie jeebies looking at/hearing that stuff but I can remain calm. However, I still try not to hear the alarms if I don’t have to, so I watched this whole video on mute with captions. It’s exposure therapy 😂
dude idk what it is about your videos... so good!
I was a DJ on my college's radio station back in the late 70s and early 80s. We had to do EBS tests every once in awhile, but we didn't read a script. The audio for the test was recorded on a cartridge tape (called a "cart") which we simply played over the air. The cart was recorded by the station manager, who read from the script.
I live in new Zealand and when i was a kid all we had was old reused air raid sirens. to know what was going on you would have to time how long it went for. problem is the voluntary fire service used that same siren multiple times a day. you would hear the siren and you would cross your fingers that it wouldn't last over two minutes or you'd have to get moving. we later had earthquakes and those sirens were used. straight up trauma. the current warning alarm here is super weird. look it up.
awsome video
also kiwi here, our variety of emergency sirens and alert tones is honestly insane. why do some regions have different sounding tsunami sirens? why is the standard building evacuation siren so hard to understand? why is the emergency alert siren we broadcast over the radio Like That?
Also a kiwi and I remember camping as a kid in like 2002 and getting my dad to take me to the campsite bathroom in the middle of the night and there was US American couple staying there crying and freaking out because the volunteer fire brigade siren went off and they thought it was some kind of emergency alert siren (it sounds like a fuckin air raid tbh) but I hadn’t even noticed it because we lived close to the volunteer fire station at the time and I was so used to hearing it it’s like car alarms to me now.
My Dad thought it was pretty funny but I feel sorry for them because like if your context was tornado sirens and 9/11 it’s a scary sound to hear at night.
@@lilliths-httyd-channel yeah! why are they so hard to understand all the time?! it’s like so degraded that at that point you’re like listening to Mr Bean language? It’s so outdated and the iOS alerts are dependent on you having a newer phone with 4G/5G otherwise I hope the flash flood waits the hour and a half it takes to get to my shit tier old iPhone
@@doctorworm420 I feel like telling a usamerican "don't worry bro it's just a fire siren" is almost a rite of passage for kiwis at this point... also sorry to hear about the state of emergency alerts on your phone :/ my android's already 5+ years old so I'll need to replace it soon (still running strong though)
Huh. Must be a bunch of suburban Americans taking trips to NZ. Rural America still heavily uses old left-over CD sirens for fire calls, despite most of us also using modern pagers (Unication & Motorola are popular in NC) and ActiveAlert. When I'm driving in a different area and hear sirens, I think VFD, not war lol. Just my experience.
For tornado warnings where I live, back in the late 70s and early 80s, some stations had 3 high pitch beeps and at the end of the warning a stern voiceover gave instructions such as "listen for the roar, seek shelter immediately" and "stay away from windows". They used to tell you to open windows but that was discontinued around 1980.
I watched a documentary on what happened in Hawaii and it made me bloody cry.
There was this segment about this kid, who was at school or something, and she was like "I thought I wouldn't see my family again"
The Perfect Dark music was such a treat to listen to
I’m glad I wasn’t the only one to notice that :)
12:37 Yoooooo sample this 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
yep
dude thats fire
9:01 SOUTH DAKOTA MENTION
But fr though this is a great video! Growing up in the midwest Ive been humpscared by these Emergency alerts more times than I can count. Seeing how they have evolved was cool!
Hadn’t watched your videos before so I was not expecting the Thunderbolt name drop. Very nice. :)
Having binged a lot of the Japan tsunami material, I have now cultivated a mild fear response to the very happy-sounding bell chimes of the reliable Japanese earthquake alert system. Meanwhile I get too many EAS alerts that end up not applying to me (location S. Calif); that plus enjoying way too many mock EAS scenes has somewhat desensitized me to the American sounds, but at least I can hear it. ~ fwiw I love the old red/white/blue CD logo ~
Lucky you get EAS alerts in SoCal... I'm in San Diego and we rarely see them, or at least I do. Maybe I'm just that desensitized to them. But ik T-Mobile don't issue WEAs the way they're supposed to in SD area for some reason.
My parents were on Kauai when the missile alert went off. My dad called me to see if I had heard anything to see if it was real. I was on the internet searching for 20 minutes before I found that it was a false alarm. While my dad was on the phone with me he literally asked what he should do. All I could tell him was to find a way to get under ground. He responded with, "We are on a tiny island. There isn't really an underground." In all seriousness though, it was terrifying not knowing what the hell was going on for 20 or so minutes. I genuinely thought I had just lost my parents and that was the last time I would get to talk to my dad.
That must have been awful!
Not that it does much good now, but finding a good-sized hill to put in between you and the nearest big city, getting into a trench, or going into the sewers are all... options.
This video was lovely. Im one of those kids who has trauma about it and thanks for speaking about us. While im scared of it I appreciate its importance and your video helped that. Thank you!
12:52 that one gave me nightmares as a kid, along with the high pitched one when stations went off air for the night. Idk why but I had a reoccurring nightmare that combined the 2 and it was about some murderer on the loose (I think my kid brain combined amber alerts with the two of them). Still gives me the creeps thinking about that dream today and I'm in my late 30s!
In 2020 we got a nuclear power plant incident warning and for about 90 min I thought I was going to turn into a Chernobyl Chalupa before we were notified that it was a false alarm.
Swegel, I must say you are one of my absolutely low-key favorite subscriptions on YT. I've been a tornado nut since I was a little kid (my local meterologist came to my elementary school and signed my weather book in first grade). This video uncocked a memory when I was maybe 8-9 years old when my small town in Ohio had a tornado warning and the sirens went off. As it turned out, the tornado was only EF-0 and missed the town completely, but I vividly remember standing at the door and hearing the siren and crying really bad. I went to the basement and hid there for 10-15 minutes. Quite the shocker and even today the sirens still unnerve me (kinda the point like you said). Thanks for the glorious content and keep it coming.
I grew up on Air Force bases in the 1960s and 70s; those old EBS warnings were definitely attention getting. But nothing ever freaked me out more than the warning sirens. Hawaii used to test the tsunami warnings on the first of every month at noon, and where we lived in Aiea (sp?) the sirens would echo terribly. It didn't help that our next duty station, Offutt, used the same type of sirens for both tornado warnings and civil defense. The warning alert on my weather radio is freaky (especially at night), but to this day, that long, drawn out wail is the scariest.
They’re both so viscerally creepy. Just dig a hole in my soul but that’s why I love them.🖤
9:43 bro, speaking of tornado movies: I can’t wait for Twisters. The original is one of the best tornado movies out there, so when I first saw the trailer I was stoked.
Great vid, so informative thx sm bro!!!!
In New Jersey there's a guy who owns a dark blue with a white roof 1962 Plymouth Savoy station wagon that has East Hanover Civil Defense logos on the front doors. It's got a whole bunch of red emergency lights all over too, as well as a gigantic broadcasting antenna on the passenger side front fender. Just imagine seeing that parked in someone's driveway or on the road in the 60's. That would be super scary.
nowadays that’s cool as fuck, back then though, terrifying
The Sioux City alert at 11:34 sure could cause an emergency. That lighting and sound could easily bring on a seizure to folks with epilepsy. 😳 I do enjoy your videos and your voice. Keep on keeping on.
I grew up in a Navy family, so I have always lived in coastal areas where natural disasters are common. The most terrifying eas alarms I remember were from my childhood when I lived on Guam in the late 90's. The attack tone was different and, there was just somthing about that sound that got inside you and gave you a sense of impending doom. They usually had something to do with earthquakes as well, and Guam earthquakes hit different. I could never understand what that demonic voice was saying either. Also, the movie Trinity and Beyond came out around then, and I thought every plane that flew overhead was about to drop a nuke. Good times.
So I live in a place were we get these kinds of things all the time (especially since last October). In my town specifically we've thankfully mostly had false alarms. We have 4 primary ways we get notified of an incoming threat. The sirens will go off (in some communities close to the borders instead of a siren it will say "Red Alert", It will pop up on the side of your TV screen if it's on, the radio announcers will read it off, or if you have the app on your phone you will get a notification. The phone app often provides the best detail at the time of the warning. My first time hearing the siren (since moving away from home) I actually ignored the warnings of a possible invasion to warn my elderly neighbors (who don't have smartphones) that this was not a normal siren and to stay inside until the all clear was given (usually we just wait 10 minutes but this was a possible invasion). and to ensure my building was as secure as possible because most of my neighbors are elderly and wouldn't be able to manage that task quickly enough to not put themselves in danger by doing so.
Shortly after that happened I traveled to a town to help my friend prepare her community for if rockets came and a few days later shrapnel fell in that town (after an incoming rocket was intercepted) in the same neighborhood that we had trained in identifying the safest area to shelter in.
In other news we actually changed our ambulance sirens to minimize the risk of people getting confused or panicking unnecessarily.
Love your stuff, dude!
I appreciate that! Thanks so much!
16:44 As a Canadian, I heard this right before an EF2 hit my city! Everyone was fine and it was on the other sid eof town from me, but it was still freaky to hear- coming from my phone no less
Was it the one from last year that nearly hit Ottawa and Montreal? I remember that one, we got like, what? Ten alerts in the spans of an hour.
@@williamcote4208 No actually! It was about down in Barrie, an hour-and-a-half north of Toronto!
@@TheGeeMaster1337 oh wow, i was thinking maybe that one when i read the original comment! i live near barrie too, and jeez that was pretty scary. i kinda assumed we were safe from relatively powerful tornadoes, but an EF2 that close to home really shook up my sense of tornado security. im glad you were okay!!
@@hannabanana3029 Well- guess we're not, huh? Plus, the May 31, 1985 outbreak put down a high-end F4...I'd go as far as to say borderline F5; some of the damage photos I saw in the aftermath were like Bridge Creek-Moore in terms of vegetation damage and ground scouring! Plus, the sheer regularity of these storms means Ontario has to stay on guard just as much as, say, Wisconsin, Ohio or Indiana!
In 2023 I got a close call with another cell- I'd say the center of the circulation came within a mile of my actual location, but it didn't definitively produce anything! All the classic tornado warning signs - rotation, green sky, eerie stop in precipitation! There were unconfirmed reports of tornadic damage in uptown, but nothing in the suburbs where I was.
@@williamcote4208 god i remeber that, we were getting alerts so far in advance the sky was still blue for the first two ones, i also got one whilst flying my drone right before it hit, Somehow made the dark blue-hued precipitation core even more menacing. First and only time (for now) that I've ever seen actual strobe lightning, freaked my AM radio out for a good hour.
Also quite ironic that whenever a tornado hit my town 2 years prior they never actually issued a warning for it, do with that what you will.
Loved watching the Weather Channel when I was a kid in Florida with all of our bad weather. Hearing the tones and perking up with my eyes wide to see what was going on.
I now, at 33 years old, watch fictional EAS scenarios to go to bed a lot.
love ur content bro
I remember the sirens going off in like 1961 in our area of Texas due to tornadoes. We had tests every Friday at noon of them and my mom always told me that if they went off any other time, I was to get under the baby bed in the back bedroom (no hiding in the halls back then, it was the SE corner of a house). I was the oldest so i was to get my siblings under there with me. Well, one night we had a teen babysitter while mom was at the laundry mat. The sirens went off and my baby sitter panicked. Her dad came running down and took her to the house to hide and left us there (I guess not thinking straight). I grabbed my sister and her blanket from in the baby bed (she was about 1), my brother, age 3, came running and got under with me, and we all sat there crying when mom came running in. She let me get out and stand on a chair and I remember distinctly seeing hooks (ie: funnels) in the distance against what light was left. Scared me silly and it took until my 40s to get over the jump any time a warning came up. Moving away from the panhandle to Houston in 1991 helped too. And having a former chaser as a husband who could calm me down did as well.
So I think individual communities used those sirens well before the national use for tornado events. I know I ended up in the basement several times in the evenings as tornados played around the panhandle.
And when I was a DJ back in the late 80s, I got to read those things at the station. We had carts (something like 8-track cartridges but better quality) but none for a tornado watch. The NWS would alert us on the teletype (yeah, we had a dot matrix printer--still called teletype) and we would have the verbiage to read to the listeners. I think my statement was like "Folks, this is message just received from the National Weather Service in Amarillo. The following counties are now under a tornado watch." and a string of the counties, including the ones I was in and then "Please stay tuned to this station or your local television station for further alerts. If this watch goes into a warning, you'll be instructed to go to an interior room or a basement/storm shelter. This, again, is a tornado WATCH, tornadoes may form in the following counties........." I think the written thing was better than this memory, but it's the idea of it and I had to do it twice in the two years I worked at that station.
I've only ever experienced 1 tornado warning. I live in northeastern oregon so tornadoes are extremely rare here, but every once and awhile we'll get 1 maybe two in our area. I grew up watching twister and nerding out over tornadoes and storm chasing, so any opportunity to see an actual tornado would be super special.
one evening we were having some pretty intense storms and we had a legit tornado warning come over the radio. it was about 15 or so miles away from our house and I wanted to see it, but it was just a small rain wrapped ef1 that didn't last long.
however in May of 2022 we had twins fairly close to us, one was speculated to have ef3 level winds as it did hit some structures.
I have had 2 tornado warning I have never Been hit with a tornado and I wish never happens but one has been close to me. It was like one town over and this was during the March 31, April 1, 2023 outbreak
But it did minor damage it was a rain wrapped F2
I’ve experience a few, but they were actually just duds
I've had a few
But never seen a tornado or heck even a supercell in person!
...is it wrong for me to want to see one?
@@seantaggart7382 no I don’t think so I think it’s like once in a lifetime experience
Great video as always, man, thank you!!
I first heard the non-test version of the National Weather Service in my mid-30s. In a major city in the Mid-Atlantic region, I never heard any weather warnings, but by the mid-2000s, I'd moved to an area much, much closer to water. In the middle of the night, I was awoken by that noise and a real alert, warning of imminent flooding and directions to move to higher ground immediately, I about lost it. I wasn't crying or screaming, but I was freaked out. I shook my husband awake and made him listen, ready to grab our cat and a few sentimental items and head out. He explained that the warning was for those residents right on the water. He was right, but unfortunately, residents in the target area lost their homes, and those houses re-built had to meet new building code requirements. I was amazed that after years of tests, that alert still woke me up. I still take those alerts very seriously and appreciate that they are tested.
The sound played at 12:55 is the one I hear on my car radio whenever there's a test or a weather alert - along with that robotic, monotone voice letting me know what's going on.
7:22 the way he just looks up 😭
This is such an interesting video! And as a Midwest dad, I'm so happy I found this channel!
Growing up, the province I live in (Alberta) had its own public warning system and the tone used to always scare the hell out of me. We switched to the canada wide one sometime in the early 2010's and I still remember having a full blown anxeity attack the first time I heard that ones tone, it's so aggressive
12:10 is the only one that actually unsettled me
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Bruhhh somethings up with those Missouri alarms 💀
I love these. I grew up adjacent to tornado Alley and Dixie Alley and later moved to a place that basically doesn't get severe weather so these noises are very nostalgic. Reminds me of rainy afternoons watching one of the main affiliates like a hawk while a tornado destroys some rural area half an hour away
18:08 I live Hawaii and I remember that day, I just say on my roof, look out to the ocean played my playlist and just accepted my faith, until the notification that the false alarm happend