Tornado Sirens are Scary...

This video is all about tornado sirens. Their history, their sounds, their shapes, and all the different brands and models.

Which tornado sirens do you think sound the scariest?

Thanks for watching!.. Also you should consider subscribing for more tornado content! Love you.

Also I have a new channel called "Swegz" about the evolution of things if you're interested..

(Also also if I sound weird, its because I filmed this while I had strep throat)

Contents:
0:00 intro
1:50 tornado siren history
3:20 civil defense sirens
4:38 history of tornado warnings
6:30 first tornado siren use
7:18 siren 101
7:58 siren alert sound
8:18 siren attack sound
8:49 siren hi lo sound
9:00 alternating wail sound
9:20 siren tones
10:00 siren ports 8/10 8/12 9/12 10/12 4/5
11:00 federal signal thunderbolt
11:56 ACA alerting communicators of America
12:10 electric sirens federal signal modulator
12:30 scary chicago siren
13:10 the future of tornado sirens

sources:
North Dakota Sirens and Roblox Decot

Charlie Davidson Thunderbolt 1000T Test

Dillion Carpenter Thunderbolt 1000 Norman OK

BOOGIEMAN Tornado Sirens in Downton Chicago

Tyler Shaw - Federal Signal Thunderbolt 1003A Alternate Wail - Saint Paul, Nebraska

DSRX100 WPS Whelen WPS-2750, Alert, Voice, & Wail/Attack: Petersburg, Indiana

Tornado Siren Junkie - Creepy Tornado Sirens Going Off in Downtown Chicago 06-15-2015

uwtitanfan Federal Signal 1000T Colo IA

BFI The Warning 1939

National Library of Medicine: Let's Face It (Federal Civil Defense Administration, 1954)

Various scenes from Night of the Twisters

Music:
Carrington Institute - Perfect Dark
The Sims Soundtrack - Neighborhood 7
Planetary Pieces - Apotos Night Hub World

#tornado #siren #weather

[SwegleStudios]

If I sound weird, its because I had strep throat when I filmed this lol. Thanks for watching!!

[JCBro-ygvd]

Sirens have always been intended as an outdoor warning system. It never hurts to have them as another layer of warnings.

[emmajauernig]

Sirens are definitely still a necessity. Being from Kansas, I couldn’t tell you how many times sirens have woken me up in the middle of the night. I remember once when I was little my sister and I were home alone and playing outside when the sirens went off. It’s also pretty ignorant to assume that everyone has a phone in the first place. Keep the sirens!

[anlicsceadu]

Redundancy is so important. We lived in Abilene, TX and they got rid of their sirens and went to a texting system. Several years ago (2019) they were hit by an EF2 tornado that started on the local air base and then moved into the city. Because it started on the air base and was noticed by the tower control, an Airman on duty decided to switch the base sirens on before the official NOAA warning was even issued. She's credited for saving lives (no one was injured) not only on base, but in the city because it woke up the neighborhoods in the surrounding area as well. Sirens can be annoying, until they work and save your life.

[RT-qdyl]

The scariest feeling in one's life is growing up at the same house for 17 years, hearing the siren next to your house do the "alert" tone once a month, every month, every year... Then all of a sudden on a non-test day, at non-test time, on a high risk weather day, you hear the "attack" tone from that siren for the first time in your life. I never even knew it made that tone, and I nearly peed my pants. ACA Banshee.

[CrystalCatGacha]

I've always been glad the sirens still exist, especially for people who don't own a cellphone or have bad service. It's anyways good to have them, no matter how outdated they may seem.

[tcatsquinder-unjn]

I think the reason why the sound of a siren is so terrifying is because it usually means something absolutely terrible is going to happen

[Ace-]

YES WE SHOULD KEEP THEM! I used to work in a facility where I was required to leave my phone out in my car or locked in a locker during the day, and our internet usage was whack. The ONLY WAY I knew we were in an active tornado's path was because our town still has a fully functional siren. There are times when you DON'T have a radio, DON'T have a phone, DON'T have a TV or Internet and DON'T have ANY IDEA there is a danger coming right at you except for the rusty former air raid siren screaming into the stormy skies. It's also ridiculously easy for phones, Internet, and TV to be completely fucked up in a crisis, and kind of foolish to expect that they are always a reliable fall back.

[EverReality]

People are always wondering why sirens invoke so much fear, the answer is that’s the entire point of the sound, they made the sound specifically to scare people and get them to shelter.

[jb]

As someone who grew up in tornado alley, the sirens going off was always the scariest part of the storm. Night of the Twisters is the one tornado flick that really captures the terror when you're home alone and those sirens start wailing. Twister is great, but the Night of the Twisters sequence in the house is one of my favorite scenes in any storm movie.

[boompa]

Growing up in the Midwest, I am very familiar with tornado sirens. My city tests them on the first Wednesday of every month. I liked the Thunderbolt, fascinating and terrifying at the same time. Unfortunately, the city replaced them a few years ago with something wimpy. My mom was in Madison, Wisconsin, to visit her sister in college in the 1960s. Madison also tested their sirens regularly. A German man who had lived through the war was there. He was freaking out over the sirens, either reliving bad memories or believing that the bombers were on the way.

[TheDethsight]

for me, the creepiest siren sound that i have heard was during the Andover, KS tornado in the '90s. The tornado cut the power, and the just the way the siren sounded immediately after losing it's power still haunts me to this day.

[waffleproductions]

In my Senior year of High School, I was helping set up for homecoming and a HUGE storm hit. A tornado touched down near my school. But before the storm hit heavily, I got locked outside. The wind picked up and then it started POURING. Suddenly there was an electrical voice saying “Seek shelter immediately, this is not a test” then it started listing all the places I could hide. So I stared calling everyone who was inside and trying to get it ( A “Let me in. LET ME IN” sort of moment). Finally I got in and took shelter with everyone. It was the worst storm I’d experienced.

[Eibarwoman]

I grew up in a town which would sound a siren at high noon. If you heard the siren at any other time, you knew something was bad was happening usually with a chemical plant release or tornado.

[lunathecutest]

The howl of a siren has always been haunting to me. I worked at a summer camp for a couple years, and they had one to signal forest fires that are close. You would hear the reflection of the siren that bounces on the pond.

[catonawavewave]

As someone who is a "Siren Enthusiast" and has been watching your videos since day one, I must say you did a pretty good job at nailing siren basics! It was really cool to see someone actually dive into the various models and signals produced by these things. Very solid video! Your production quality has definitely improved

[skerdude]

The sirens were extremely useful for me 6 days ago. I was putting away groceries and I heard the sirens, about 10 minutes later we took a direct hit from an F3 tornado. The sirens bought me the time to get everyone into the shelter and ensure safety.

[Archer_Starling]

Coming from a small town in Texas, tornado sirens are still very much needed. Not everyone has a phone that's capable of recieving weather alerts (and some people have turned them off because they're annoying). There's also circumstances of people at work who aren't allowed to have their phones on them at work (think schoolteachers or construction or some desk jobs)

[ECB]

As a guy who has a crippling fear of tornadoes in general, sirens have always terrified me, along with the EAS warning that pops up on the TV. My heart just drops, and I immediately start freaking out. Oddly enough, I did have a weird obsession with them when I was around 11-13 years old. Figured I was alone in that.

[jmiller]

0:12 *"...The LEAVES have TURNED OVER."* (hand motions included...) That part gave me life. 😂🤣🤣💀