QUICK FACTS: Kanawha/Putnam county siren system
-55 sirens
-22 MOD IIs installed in 2013
-Tested the 4th Monday of every month @noon
-Operated by Kanawha Putnam emergency planning committee
NON 2001/MOD SIRENS IN AREA (the discoveries)
A 3T22 on top of the Charleston housing authority. This siren did bot activate for their 2019 SWA (Reported on by local news), but Im hopeful and have a hunch it’s active
A single celled Whelen Omni next to (and operated by) Yeager airport that warns of landslides, installed in 2015 after a local landslide. It is automatically activated once a stream gauge reaches a flooding point in which the mountain side could come falling. The siren is described as “high-pitched”, which is odd because whelens are lower pitched than mods and 2001s, unless it has a different control box than whelen. That’s just speculation though. That siren is tested at the 1st Monday of the month @noon.
A Model 5 in Alloy, WV. Credit to 4J25 for discovering it. It’s near a factory so it could be tied to the factory but the siren map on the website shows a siren near the location
An inactive thunderbolt in Marmet. A 2001 stands right next to it.
In Chesapeake, there is a Sterling M, also standing next to a 2001. Thanks to 4J25 for discovering that as well.
2 Thunderbeams located at DuPont middle school and Midland Trail elementary (Thank you to Adam Pollak)
Im still working to verify roundback 2001s. This summer I will hopefully make a map of the system. I will also be updating this post in the near future. Hope this was somewhat interesting!
(I wonder if Charleston once had a system comprised of older Federal Sirens...)
Note: I am on mobile, so if I could have mercy for any typos, that’d be great