Ontario, Canada Siren Map

[ECwindsor]

Yeah, Enviro Canada gives out an official tornado watch watch after the tornado has passed loljkjk!

Lol, It's too bad that when EC issues a TOA it isn't relayed over TV or AM/FM radio so nobody will really find out until "Oh s*** there is a twister down the street..." jk.

[SirenMadness]

Oh I'm sure if it gets that bad, AM800 will be all over it.

[ECwindsor]

Oh I'm sure if it gets that bad, AM800 will be all over it.

I wonder if a storm spotter asked AM800 to broadcast over the air that a Tornado Watch was issued if AM800 would actually do it.

[SirenMadness]

LOL no clue. But slightly back on topic, I remember the Seminole-area Ford plant used to periodically growl what sounded like a small siren, possibly to signal an overhead crane or even a shift change, I'm not really sure. Haven't heard that siren for several years now, but I do remember hearing it at night almost a kilometer (half-mile) away with the window closed.

[ECwindsor]

LOL no clue. But slightly back on topic, I remember the Seminole-area Ford plant used to periodically growl what sounded like a small siren, possibly to signal an overhead crane or even a shift change, I'm not really sure. Haven't heard that siren for several years now, but I do remember hearing it at night almost a kilometer (half-mile) away with the window closed.

Interesting, so I am assuming you live in the Forest Glade area. I have only heard a siren in Windsor once and that was back in July during a very bad storm. Sounded like a FS 2001 so it could have been from Detroit but you never know it could have been the Master Blaster.

[SirenMadness]

Nope, I'm in the Central area, hence I said the plant on Seminole lol, the one right across the ol' test track. Also, what year was that you heard the siren? I remember in the summer of '05 we had a nasty nasty storm, and I remember hearing what sounded like faint sirens that I assumed were coming from Belle Isle.

[ECwindsor]

Nope, I'm in the Central area, hence I said the plant on Seminole lol, the one right across the ol' test track. Also, what year was that you heard the siren? I remember in the summer of '05 we had a nasty nasty storm, and I remember hearing what sounded like faint sirens that I assumed were coming from Belle Isle.

I don't remember the exact day but it was in July of 2013 during a severe t-storm with damaging winds and small hail. Winds did gust to 75 MPH so I think it was Detroit's sirens.

[Model2]

*Off Topic*, I always wonder why in the USA they have better warning systems, weather offices and EAS plans. I rely strongly on the NWS Detroit for EAS alerts and forecasts because Environment Canada can't provide certain things in their weather info.

Because destructive and deadly natural disasters are far more likely in America than in Canada. They have a long standing history up until present showing the reason for why they have spent over half a century devoting time and money to emergency management and top-notch weather forecasting. World War 2 and the Cold War also lended a helping hand into their siren networks. Most if not all sirens were initially for air raid warnings or fire departments, as time went on, governments expanded their uses to weather emergencies.

We had the same opportunities in Canada to devote our emergency management programs of the past towards natural disaster planning, but again no one wanted to pay for or maintain such systems. They even dismantled the emergency broadcast system in the latter half of the last century, and not even the federal government nor private enterprises have been able to reinstate a similar system. Look up the federal government's CANALERT or Pelmorex's All Channel Alert. The ACA looked much more likely than the forgotten CANALERT, but at this point I have serious doubts Pelmorex will ever get the ACA up and running on a mandatory scale set by CRTC rules.

EDIT: As for Environment Canada, they were once a fantastic weather service before the modernization efforts at the beginning of this century. Weather offices were amalgamated, and most staff let go. Even recently the federal government again slashed their funding and laid off almost 1,000 employees. They're running on a real skeleton crew with 3 to 4 meteorologists forecasting for areas that cover multiple provinces. Juxtapose with the NWS where they have teams of 20-30 meteorologists forecasting for areas the size of Southwestern Ontario. I'm not exactly sure how many Environment Canada weather offices existed before 2003, but I think it was 16-20. We now have 6, and 1 seasonal. Vancouver, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Toronto, Montreal, Halifax, and seasonally Gander, NFLD.

[ECwindsor]

This is off topic but somewhat important. We discussed the old emergency alert system for Canada and it is official the CRTC is bringing that back. Not sure about sirens but TV and AM/FM Alerts are officially coming back.

Article: http://news.gc.ca/web/article-en.do?nid=880239