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Posted: 3/14/2022 9:53:49 PM EDT
[#1]
Go big or go home...
 Chrysler V8 Air Raid Siren. At "Big Daddy" Don Garlits Museum of Drag Racing. |
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Posted: 3/14/2022 9:54:01 PM EDT
[#2]
Yes Florida city has air sirens. In the event of a Turkey point meltdown.
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Posted: 3/14/2022 9:54:35 PM EDT
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A bar at the beach town where I used to spend my summers had one. Does that count?
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Posted: 3/14/2022 9:58:57 PM EDT
[#4]
Isn’t a tornado siren really the same thing. Just an emergency siren
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Posted: 3/14/2022 9:59:51 PM EDT
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They use tornado sirens around here. They get tested every month on the first Wednesday at 1300
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Posted: 3/14/2022 10:00:08 PM EDT
[#6]
 New (Nuclear Evacuation Alarm) Sound Effect |
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Posted: 3/14/2022 10:03:32 PM EDT
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They took ours down after the USSR collapsed.
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Posted: 3/14/2022 10:09:16 PM EDT
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Yep, they go off e wry Tuesday at noon.
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Posted: 3/14/2022 10:10:42 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: They use tornado sirens around here. They get tested every month on the first Wednesday at 1300 Yep, same here. They're also used for flash flood warnings. Since the advent of alerts sent via cell phone, there's a lot less emphasis on sirens nowadays. |
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Posted: 3/14/2022 10:10:50 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryThey said that v8 powered siren could be heard for 25 miles. Holy smoke. There is a tornado siren about 7 miles away in town and it cannot be heard from here. I could only imagine one that could be heard for 25 miles. |
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Posted: 3/14/2022 10:12:18 PM EDT
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A few weeks back there was said to be air raid sirens plucked from the Midwest towns that still had them and they were to be installed in coastal towns & cities
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Posted: 3/14/2022 10:13:52 PM EDT
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The little town down the highway from Dow Chemical has a monthly siren test to warn of a leak.
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Posted: 3/14/2022 10:14:12 PM EDT
[#13]
Same thing op
Yes every state has them, even commiefornia. Back during the cold war, they would test them once or twice a year. |
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Posted: 3/14/2022 10:14:24 PM EDT
[#14]
I want one for my hood
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Posted: 3/14/2022 10:15:14 PM EDT
[#15]
When I was stationed in Germany the German army had hand cranked air raid sirens that were mounted on a tripod and loud.
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Posted: 3/14/2022 10:17:02 PM EDT
[#16]
I have one.
Two siren bells on either end of a large 220V motor. Damn thing is heavy and it is loud! It came off of city hall when they discontinued the noon siren, it went out for bid and we got it...   Attached File |
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Posted: 3/14/2022 10:21:35 PM EDT
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Long Island is blanketed with fire departments - there is a siren on each fire house & they put them up on poles in the places that are a little further away from the buildings.
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Posted: 3/14/2022 10:21:44 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: They use tornado sirens around here. They get tested every month on the first Wednesday at 1300 Mondays at noon here. I have a hand held air raid siren. It’s loud as hell, and I’ve been yelled at by my wife and kids for using it to ‘motivate’ lazy teens to get up some mornings. Ear pro is your friend. 
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Posted: 3/14/2022 10:26:32 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I have one. Two siren bells on either end of a large 220V motor. Damn thing is heavy and it is loud! It came off of city hall when they discontinued the noon siren, it went out for bid and we got it... https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/20962/Siren_JPG-2313783.JPG Solid! Now mount it your truck… |
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Posted: 3/14/2022 10:36:08 PM EDT
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My home town still has one. Goes off 12 noon every day. Also goes off when the local fire dept. is dispatched.
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Posted: 3/14/2022 10:39:05 PM EDT
[#21]
This is the best of all the sirens:
Federal Signal 'Thunderbolt 1000T'  Thunderbolt 1000T Tornado Siren Test | December 21, 2011 |
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Posted: 3/14/2022 10:54:07 PM EDT
[#22]
Yeah, but every time they use it the Volunteer Fire Department shows up.
ETA: My problem is I got nowhere to go. I guess I could mount a green laser to my .308 and see if I get lucky, or see my sig line. |
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Posted: 3/14/2022 10:55:57 PM EDT
[#23]
Not where I live, but my family owned a summer place in Westerly/Watch Hill RI and they had sirens that would go off.
We have chemical plants here that have them. |
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Posted: 3/14/2022 10:58:00 PM EDT
[#24]
Quote HistoryQuoted: This is the best of all the sirens: Federal Signal 'Thunderbolt 1000T'  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9rRSY0dRIU |
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Posted: 3/14/2022 10:59:00 PM EDT
[#25]
We have tornado sirens here. Some are sirens and some are loudspeakers with recorded messages. They get tested the first Tuesday of the month.
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Posted: 3/14/2022 11:04:13 PM EDT
[#26]
There's something about sirens that make them cool yet eerie.
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Posted: 3/14/2022 11:05:22 PM EDT
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We have tornado sirens here, tested the first Wednesday of each month...
But would there be a different siren for air raids and incoming bombs falling? |
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Posted: 3/14/2022 11:10:36 PM EDT
[#28]
I used to be a deputy in a county with a nuke plant. We had tornado sirens and separate nuclear sirens.
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Posted: 3/14/2022 11:10:46 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: They took ours down after the USSR collapsed. |
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Posted: 3/14/2022 11:13:20 PM EDT
[#30]
The tornado siren is the civil defense/air raid siren in most places. Different sound patterns to differentiate the different threats. (Hi/Lo tone vs long continuous tone for example) Used to have a card with the tones "codes" when I was a kid...damned if I know what their meanings are today, just remember it was a thing.
ETA: Found this online... Siren Tones There are two different tones used by Outdoor Warning Sirens: Attack: The signal for enemy attack is a rising and falling tone heard for 3 minutes. Civil Emergency: The signal for a civil emergency (such as a tornado) is a steady wail heard for at least 3 minutes |
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Posted: 3/14/2022 11:19:43 PM EDT
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No air raid sires but we do have the siren at the local firehouse which goes off every day at noon. Of course that triggers my husky to howl along with it. Thankfully the old neighbors think it is funny as they are use to it but the new family behind are not amused. The knew guy also bitches that the husky jumps on the fence when he smells the guys little dog on the other side. I had to tell him my husky views his little dog as something to kill.
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Posted: 3/14/2022 11:30:39 PM EDT
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My area had them back in the 70s and 80s
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Posted: 3/14/2022 11:37:51 PM EDT
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Remember, Steady Storm, Wavering War.
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Posted: 3/15/2022 12:32:23 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Isn’t a tornado siren really the same thing. Just an emergency siren This. A constant wail (Alert tone) is for tornados, An up-down wail like......an air raid siren......is fir Air Raids, and IF you had high-low capability, Fire. Lets take a look at a few, shall we? This is an old Thunderbolt siren. It is rare to still see these around and in service. Definitely CD era. They came in 3 models: 1000(one frequency), 1000T(2 frequencies at same time, and 1003 (high/low capable) which was identifiable by solenoid boxes. 1000T  1003 with solenoid boxes. The solenoids cut off each individual rotor/stator assembly to produce high/low for Fire alert  Now a few recognizable sirens: Federal Signal 2001: these are everywhere around here. Basically a glorified fire engine siren. 12-port design for a high pitch frequency. They have several iterations. This as older one, no logo on center cone, and mesh screen over the front. 127 dB @ 100ft  Version after the previous. Also old now, big center cone and small FS logo.  Later version with big logo.  American Signal Tempest 128 (T-128): I always liked these because they look cool. 8 port design for a low pitch that better penetrates buildings and humidity in the air. Common in the south. 128 dB @ 100ft   Now the BIG BOY: American Signal T-135 These are also very popular. Longest range, loudest production siren for outdoor warning purpose. 10-port design, so in between the previous two. These thimgs sound wicked! 135 dB @ 100ft.  
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Posted: 3/15/2022 12:38:06 AM EDT
[#35]
We have a tsunami warning siren…
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Posted: 3/15/2022 12:40:46 AM EDT
[#36]
No, but back in the 80s when I was in Californistan, there were sirens and they went off. Many cows were had.
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Posted: 3/15/2022 12:43:35 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: We have a tsunami warning siren… This. |
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Posted: 3/15/2022 12:45:07 AM EDT
[#38]
Now some other old sirens that you may still see. Getting rare though
ACA, now American Signal, made quite a few, Federal Signal madeca lot as well. ACA Allertor: always looked to me like something out of a Dr.Seuss book. Front cone is air intake, top is the horn.   Federal Signal 2t22/3t22: stands for 2 or 3 tone, 22 horns. Top is a 12 port siren, bottom is a 10 port siren. The 3t22s also had solenoids to produce a high/low by opening/closing th3 air intake dampers. These sound wicked!  You can see the solenoid boxes on the left.  ACA Penetrator: You still see these around, CD era as well.  Sometimes they put up new sirens and never take down the old ones.  |
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Posted: 3/15/2022 12:55:47 AM EDT
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Electronic Sirens
Some of these you see around too. They have the capability to produce many sounds, since they are giant speakers. EOWS612: Electronic Outdoor Warning Siren. Very strange sound to this one. I had a firefighter get it to do Westminster Chimes once. Rare to see these anymore. They also had a 4 horn, and 8 horn version, but the six horn was most popular.  Federal Signal Modulator series. These came in varying heights and are still made today. Capable of voice control.   Now for THE MOST HATED sirens in the siren community, Whelan. Whelan Vortex, aka The Mosquito. They sound like ass and dont even rotate a full 360.    Whelan 2800 series. Similar to the Modulator, also came in varying sizes.  
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Posted: 3/15/2022 12:58:47 AM EDT
[#40]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Remember, Steady Storm, Wavering War. High/Low = Fire This. Although towns around here staryed using air raid signal for tornados. |
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Posted: 3/15/2022 12:58:52 AM EDT
[#41]
Quote HistoryQuoted: This is the best of all the sirens: Federal Signal 'Thunderbolt 1000T' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9rRSY0dRIUYears ago I was on top of a building downtown installing a air conditioner. This exact civil defense marked air raid siren was up there, checked with my meter it was powered up. Pointed it at the ghetto and flipped the switches marked "chopper" and "blower" The chopper was the noisemaker and the blower pushed compressed air thru the chopper, significantly raising the decibel level. It coughed out a huge cloud of rust and began to wail. Being 7:00 am I figured the ghetto would appreciate the early wake up. |
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Posted: 3/15/2022 1:02:12 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: That's pretty compact. I wonder how they do it. |
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Posted: 3/15/2022 1:13:27 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Oh man! Years ago I was on top of a building downtown installing a air conditioner. This exact civil defense marked air raid siren was up there, checked with my meter it was powered up. Pointed it at the ghetto and flipped the switches marked "chopper" and "blower" The chopper was the noisemaker and the blower pushed compressed air thru the chopper, significantly raising the decibel level. It coughed out a huge cloud of rust and began to wail. Being 7:00 am I figured the ghetto would appreciate the early wake up. If they fuck themselves ghetto-appropriately, they'd still be asleep till noon. |
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Posted: 3/15/2022 1:50:01 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The one I messed with had a large air compressor that sent compressed air up the center pole. All the Thunderbolt sirens need the "blower". Part of why they're obsolete. There was one other siren that also used a blower, the Federal Signal Hurricane. RARE AS FUCK! If you see one, take pictures. They were also dual tone sirens and had a split horn design. Hurricane  
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Posted: 3/15/2022 1:54:32 AM EDT
[#45]
 Iron Maiden - Aces High (Official Video) |
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Posted: 3/15/2022 1:55:35 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: This is the best of all the sirens: Federal Signal 'Thunderbolt 1000T' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9rRSY0dRIUThe Thunderbolt 1003 had the dual choppers that the 1000T had, but also had solenoids to allow it to do High/Low tone as well. You can tell the difference by the presence of the port and starboard boxes that contained them. 
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Posted: 3/15/2022 2:01:08 AM EDT
[#47]
San Francisco used to test the city wide CD sirens on Tuesday at noon. It was was eerie hearing them spin up all over the city, run for a minute then spool down. They were the old style air raid sirens. I always thought it was cool.
ETA: Just checked. They still have the test but they upgraded the system in 2019 to electronic style sirens. Still test on Tuesday at noon but for only 15 seconds. |
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Posted: 3/15/2022 2:14:43 AM EDT
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Quoted: The ongoing coverage of the war in Ukraine and discussion of air raid sirens there leads me to wonder whether we have air raid sirens in the U.S.? Does your city or town have air raid sirens? Here in north Texas we have regular storm / tornado sirens, but I have no idea at this time how an air raid siren would sound differently, if at all... As a young boy in Tucson, Arizona in the early 70s, I would hear the air raid sirens be tested every Saturday at 11AM. Some of them are still there, but rusted and inoperable. I haven't seen one anywhere else in many, many years. It would probably be sent as a text message. |
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Posted: 3/15/2022 8:54:14 PM EDT
[#49]
I would have a beer or two at Castles house
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Posted: 3/15/2022 9:18:09 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I would have a beer or two at Castles house 
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