Cookeville, Tennessee's Outdoor Warning Siren's.

[TNSirens]

Hello! I have recently joined this website, and have been wanting to join for a while! Anyways, I was wondering if anyone viewing this has a website and/or resource about Cookeville, Tennessee's outdoor alert sirens. I have been wondering for years on the models we have here, and their history. It could even be for all of Tennessee. Thank you! -Connor

[Purring Cat]

There is a Model 5 that is likely active at the Interchange of IH40 and TN 135 in Cookeville. Other than that, my best hope is 4J25 and SirensOfCincinnati are slowly making a Tennessee Siren map from Scratch

[TNSirens]

Followed by my last post, I have also been wondering if anyone would happen to have any recordings of Cookeville, Tennessee's sirens, or Putnam County in general. I know for a fact they test the sirens here in Cookeville on the last Friday of every month at 10:00 A.M. weather permitting. Thanks! -Connor

[freebrickproductions]

There is a Model 5 that is likely active at the Interchange of IH40 and TN 135 in Cookeville. Other than that, my best hope is 4J25 and SirensOfCincinnati are slowly making a Tennessee Siren map from Scratch

Huh, I drove right past that one twice back in October and somehow didn't see it. Must've not been paying attention. I'll see about looking around Cookeville and seeing what else I can find, but there is the Various Sirens in Tennessee map that PeachtreeSirens made, that I apparently somehow lost editing rights to (likely due to Google revamping how Google Maps works):
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?ms ... 543188&z=7

[freebrickproductions]

A double post, but some interesting info (still no other locations found yet though). Decided to do a google search on tornado sirens in Cookeville and found a couple of videos. This first one is from 2011 and shows some kind of 12 port siren (likely a Model 5) running in attack for a warning:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVQuOol0aSA

The second one is from 2017 and shows what sounds like a Modulator running in attack for another tornado warning:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xowG-GIJ9e8

There's also this article from 2000 that talks about Tennessee Tech getting new sirens, which were made by Federal Signal. Likely where the Modulator above was recorded:
https://www.tntech.edu/news/archive/thr ... ttu-campus

Three new warning sirens installed on TTU campus

Published Wednesday Jan 19, 2000

Warning sirens recently installed on the campus of Tennessee Technological University will further enhance the university's response time in cases of severe weather or other emergency, ensuring the safety of students and staff as well as citizens in the immediate area.
It was approximately this time last year that Austin Peay State University in Clarksville was devastated by a tornado, triggering TTU officials to fine-tune an action plan for the campus should a similar event ever take place in Cookeville.

The sirens are located in three locations: at the intersection of North Whitney Avenue and University Drive by East Building G in Tech Village, on the south side of the Bryan Fine Arts Building, and near the emergency phone by Memorial Gym.

The sirens are also fitted with a public address feature which will enable campus officials to speak through them and broadcast any emergency information, such as evacuation routes.

"We wanted the public address feature so we could speak over them because of the propane companies near campus and the railroad nearby Ð in case there was any kind of hazardous accidents on the road or the railroad, we wanted to be able to direct a mass or partial evacuation of campus," explained Jim Cobb, director of Environmental Health and Safety.

The warning sirens have been tested and are fully operational. Cost for the sirens and their installation was approximately $45,000.

The sirens are made by Federal Signal Corp., the same company that Putnam County and Cookeville purchased their warning sirens from. By having all the sirens from the same company, they are all hooked up to the same system and TTU's sirens can readily be activated by Putnam County's emergency management director, Cobb said.

"We wanted the local emergency management director to be able to activate our sirens at the same time he activates the county's and city's. But we do also have the ability to activate our sirens from campus," Cobb said.

In case of a tornado in Cookeville, students, staff and faculty at TTU have been instructed to gather in the ground floor corridors of most buildings, considered "safe-zones."

Also, safety personnel, working through the Safety and Environmental Committee, are purchasing placards that will be used to identify storm-shelter areas on campus.

Will update this thread when I find more.

EDIT: Just found a Modulator 2008 at TTU:
https://www.google.com/maps/@36.1763456 ... 312!8i6656
Looks like they use MCPs.

EDIT 2: Just found a Modulator 1004 on the same campus:
https://www.google.com/maps/@36.1729974 ... 312!8i6656

Also, I'm making a map of Putnam County, TN (where Cookeville is located), mostly to make it easier to find locations:
https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid= ... 29298&z=13

[freebrickproductions]

Got two more locations. First off is the third and final siren on TTU, which is a Modulator 1004:
https://www.google.com/maps/@36.1771825 ... 312!8i6656

And the second is a Sterling N5 just outside of Cookeville in Algood, TN:
https://www.google.com/maps/@36.1945702 ... 312!8i6656

Still looking around Putnam County to see what I can find.

[TNSirens]

Thank you for the information! I just wanted to say I have also gotten information on this topic. There are also many other sirens. One is located near Avery Trace Middle School, which is a 2001 AC. Another 2001 AC is located on Highway 70 near what seems to be a baseball field and a railroad track. There is also a 2001 130 or SRNB near a water tower by a bunch of storage units on East 15th street, and another on Julia Road near Prescott South Middle. An STH-10 is located near a Walmart on Minnear Street. Another fact about the 2001 130's (or SRNB) is that they use to be 2001 AC (they were replaced in 2014 I think). -Connor

[freebrickproductions]

And here's a rather low 2001-AC on the west side of Cookeville:
https://www.google.com/maps/@36.1685343 ... 312!8i6656

[freebrickproductions]

Found another 2001 at the intersection of Spring Street and Hudgens Street:
https://www.google.com/maps/@36.155122, ... 312!8i6656