Cool find!maxshaw wrote: ↑Wed Apr 03, 2019 9:02 pmhttps://www.weather.gov/media/iln/event ... ummary.pdf
This article from the Wilmington Ohio NWS gives an interesting summary of the tornado outbreak on April 3-4, 1974. According to this, the first time that Hamilton County ever activated its sirens for a tornado warning was for the Sayler Park tornado.
I wonder if that’s why those 2001-SRN’s were added in 2000, although I doubt any battery backup sirens existed in the late 1970’s...carexpertandy wrote: ↑Thu Apr 04, 2019 7:10 pmCool find!maxshaw wrote: ↑Wed Apr 03, 2019 9:02 pmhttps://www.weather.gov/media/iln/event ... ummary.pdf
This article from the Wilmington Ohio NWS gives an interesting summary of the tornado outbreak on April 3-4, 1974. According to this, the first time that Hamilton County ever activated its sirens for a tornado warning was for the Sayler Park tornado.
This coming Tuesday, April 9 will be the 20-year anniversary of the outbreak that produced F4 tornado in Blue Ash and Montgomery, as well as an F1 in Addyston. Keep an eye out for news stories. This is what prompted the EMA to push for battery backup sirens, as I remember seeing an old Enquirer article from 1999 listing and mapping out sirens that did not activate. Some were due to power outages, and others did not activate for other reasons. I remember these sirens being on the list:
Addyston Municipal Building (Thunderbolt)
Addyston VFW Hall (Hurricane)
Sayler Park Elementary School (SD-10)
Cleves Municipal Building (STL-10)
Two Miami Township Fire Stations (2 P-15s)
Oak Hills High School (Thunderbolt)
Diamond Oaks (Thunderbolt)
St. Joseph Church in North Bend (SD-10)
Baughman Rd. in Harrison Twp. (Excel T-128)... I remember this one was listed as having a burned out motor, which I doubt was true. It would most likely have been replaced if that was the case. But of course we all know that the EMA personnel in these days were a lot more clueless than today's staff.
Well, most of Hamilton County’s 2001s were installed in the late 90s and early 2000s. Some other jurisdictions also responded by installing T-128s of course. It wasn’t a concern back in the day, but I can’t think of a single battery powered siren from 1974 (just saw Whelen brought the first battery powered siren in 1977). But hey, sirens that were gas powered existed...fire_freak_57 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 04, 2019 8:47 pmI wonder if that’s why those 2001-SRN’s were added in 2000, although I doubt any battery backup sirens existed in the late 1970’s...
Station X was the old pump house for the Eden park reservoirs and was later the Hamilton county communications center in the 60`s and 70`s. It is located on Eden park drive.
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