May 18-20 Tornado Outbreak Videos

[holler]

The 9-12 siren in Bixby sounds like an ACA design. It's too high pitched for a federal 9/12.

[The3t22sOfUSA]

I'm not even gonna start guessing the types of sirens in those videos...obviously there's a Modulator, but what else? I'll leave it up to the experts

Sounds like a Modulator, Sentry and a few dual tone P-10's.

EDIT: One of the users that posted a video of the sirens said this:
"This siren (and a few more around town that look similar) is the one they sound for a tornado...all I know is it looks like a yellow cylinder, high up on a pole, with a "hat-looking" top (LOL). The other one is an old, civil defense siren (looks like a barrel on it's side and is red...is not in this video) from the 50's, that they sound for grass fires...it is located on top of the fire station."

By my guess, it may be a Sentry, and a Sterling. I'm not sure.

[bellyjae]

I'm not even gonna start guessing the types of sirens in those videos...obviously there's a Modulator, but what else? I'll leave it up to the experts

Sounds like a Modulator, Sentry and a few dual tone P-10's.

EDIT: One of the users that posted a video of the sirens said this:
"This siren (and a few more around town that look similar) is the one they sound for a tornado...all I know is it looks like a yellow cylinder, high up on a pole, with a "hat-looking" top (LOL). The other one is an old, civil defense siren (looks like a barrel on it's side and is red...is not in this video) from the 50's, that they sound for grass fires...it is located on top of the fire station."

Has to be an ACA Banshee. I do hear a Modulator (dual toned), what sounds like a RM-130 but either isn't rotating or Sentry. I also hear what seems like a Federal STH-10.

[ver tum]

The 9-12 siren in Bixby sounds like an ACA design. It's too high pitched for a federal 9/12.

Has to be a Banshee then. It's hard to tell these 9/12 omni-directional sirens apart some times. Now that I think about it, doesn't an SD-10 have a deeper tambor than that?

About the videos from Cushing, OK, those are some amazing recordings. I hear Federal, ACA, and Sentry models. In one of the videos, I even hear a distant 2001. There's also another rotating siren somewhere in there, which is either an RM130, a Thunderbeam, or a Thunderbolt 1000. The Mod and the Banshee create a perfect F major chord.

This video isn't from the outbreak, but it's of the Cushing, OK system being tested.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VUghdls5bI&fmt=18

[500 AT fan]

The reason SD-10s have a deeper sound is because the 9 port section comes first. The 12 port section comes first on ACAs.

[Adam Pollak]

Please explain your reasoning behind that. Are you suggesting that since the 9-port row on an SD-10 is closer to the opening that those tones are stronger?

[500 AT fan]

Yes, and judging by the videos we have of SD-10s (and 5/7Ts as well), it seems to be correct.

And didn't Jeb explain this a while back in one of his videos? Except it involved an ACA Screamer/Howler and why it sounds higher pitched compared to the Federal types with 9-12 port.

[ACAP10]

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=city+hall ... 2,,0,-8.66

Well here's our answer...do you think both of these were sounding?

[Matt Hackler]

Cushing has 19 sirens,

1 Sterling M5
Maple St. and Harrison Ave.

4 Sentry 3V8's
Maple St. and Harrison Ave.
Oak St. between Luella and Hartman
near Pine St. and Fleetwood Ave,.
Linwood Ave. and Valley Creek Circle

9 SD-10's
Stewart St. between Main and Anna
Central between Vine and Pecan
Highland Ave. and North St.
Noble Ave. between 5th and 6th
Thompson Ave. between 5th and 6th
Howerton Ave. and 9th St.
Holmes and 9th St.
Bressy St. and Little Ave.
Southgate Dr. and Landmark Dr.

5 Modulators
Broadway and Depot
Little Ave. and Pine St.
Wilson Ave. and 2nd St.
Wilson Ave. and 14th St.
Jones Ave. and Oak St.

Nice coverage for a town of 8,300!

[holler]

Sentry of some sort sounding near Stinnett, TX

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ7LYbkL ... re=related

Dumas, TX single phase sentry and several Stinnett, TX STH-10's. Are these two towns close to each other or something?

One of the STH's can be seen at 6:40

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShGpxqE3FK0

Sirens of some sort sounding in Warrensburg, ? (state unkwown).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9I8Li5fzfg

Hennessy, OK Xt22 in alert

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCQhZ_X_4Ac