German Tornado Warning

[FedTB]

I found a video on Youtube of a Tornado Warning in Germany, complete with an air raid siren going off. The person is filming a storm and there's a little bit of lightning. A funnel cloud can be seen, though it's not your traditional pointy-looking funnel cloud, more like some very low hanging cloud, but definately a funnel cloud. At 00:38 of the video the siren starts to go off in the "Attack" mode, and a voice with a German accent can be heard saying, "Tornado Warning." The siren doesn't sound like an E57 to me, as the one in the video has a much lower pitch to it.

The name of the video is tornado warning-siren-lightning.

Very cool video! I've often wondered if other countries issued Tornado Warnings, and if so, do they use sirens to alert the public. This video answered my question. And evidentally Germany and some other European countries have several tornadoes every year.

[ver tum]

I found a link to that video here. I don't know what kind of siren that is, but it sort of sounds like an STL10. I like the sound of that siren, what ever it is.

[holler]

I think it is an E-57.

[Archon]

9 port on 50hz

[Step5]

Hm, doesn't sound like an E-57 (imho).

[SirenMadness]

Maybe it could be that two-motor Elektor siren with those three bowl-shaped projector dishes.

[Niklas]

It's a DS977, the standard-siren of the former GDR. 8 Ports ~2800rpm.

Greetings from Germany,
Niklas

[EOWS812]

err.. ya, whatever it is, it has a nice sound to it 8)

[AllSafe]

DS977 specifications
(from Sirenen-Wiki at http://www.xplored.de/wiki/index.php/DS977)

Builder: VEB Elektromotorenwerk Gr?nhain (still in business, their website is http://www.emgr.de/)
Years: 1970-1989, at the request of the former Deutsche Post (I don't know the significance of this)
Voltage: 380V
Power consumption: 3.5kW
Speed: 2800 r/min (50Hz)
Weight: 72kg (about 160lb)
Ports: 8
Frequency: ~385Hz (50Hz)
Audibility (with wind): ~5km (approx. 3mi)

The site says that this was the most common siren in the former DDR but very little else is known about its history.

[Bshinn]

A german warning?

ACHTUNG!!!! DAS TORNADO IS KOMMEN!!!!

LOL thought you all might enjoy that...