The "Official" Oklahoma Sirens Thread

[Mathew Bailey]

Mountain View-Thunderbolt 1000T 321 Main ST. behind FD

[kswx29]

How much coverage do you give for Thunderbeams? Looks about half a mile and I think Thunderbeams can actually be heard farther away. IMO. Great maps!!

[holler]

Were on earth do these small towns get the money to install brand new sirens, such as all of those Mods in Cushing?

Down here they have to scrape the bottom of the barrel, raise the water bill, and implement a SPLOST just to replace a manhole cover.

[woodyrr]

Mountain View-Thunderbolt 1000T 321 Main ST. behind FD

Here is a grab shot of the Thunderbolt behind the fire house in Mountain View.


Mountain View Thunderbolt by woodyrr, on Flickr

On a related note, a little further southwest is a Sterling on the fire house in Roosevelt.


_IGP1388 by woodyrr, on Flickr

Were on earth do these small towns get the money to install brand new sirens, such as all of those Mods in Cushing?

Down here they have to scrape the bottom of the barrel, raise the water bill, and implement a SPLOST just to replace a manhole cover.

I do not know the answer to your question, but I have wondered that myself. Driving to the Wichita area last month, I passed through Orlando, OK and Marland, OK. Both towns are very small and Orlando is almost nothing but buildings held together with peeling paint. This must be outward appearance only because both towns have recently installed new Eclipse 8s.

[dilloncarpenter]

Were on earth do these small towns get the money to install brand new sirens, such as all of those Mods in Cushing?

Down here they have to scrape the bottom of the barrel, raise the water bill, and implement a SPLOST just to replace a manhole cover.

I do not know the answer to your question, but I have wondered that myself. Driving to the Wichita area last month, I passed through Orlando, OK and Marland, OK. Both towns are very small and Orlando is almost nothing but buildings held together with peeling paint. This must be outward appearance only because both towns have recently installed new Eclipse 8s.

I think Braman also has a new Whelen 2910 too, it shows up on Waymarking.com.

How much coverage do you give for Thunderbeams? Looks about half a mile and I think Thunderbeams can actually be heard farther away. IMO. Great maps!!

I usually give them around .700 miles. I can't really tell with some of those sirens.

[Oldiesmann]

Broken Arrow is ridiculous!

The siren ambiance from Cashion would be fun to hear though.

Sorry, meant to title Cushing instead of Cashion. I get those two mixed up a lot. Here's an ambiance of Cushing, if this is what you meant.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hLTl9BBBT0

No, I did mean Cashion - T-128, 2t22 and Model 5 all within a few blocks of each other. Great video though!

[AQHort]

I thought Thunderbeams had around the same coverage as Thunderbolts and 2001s. Anyway, some of these cities, Moore and Broken Arrow especially, have rediculous coverage. There is no way in the world that you shouldn't be able to hear those sirens.

[Oldiesmann]

Federal rated the Thunderbeam at 128dB: http://www.jmarcoz.com/sirens/sc5.pdf. Siren Central on the other hand rates it at 121dB: http://www.sirencentral.com/asp_pages/s ... 348&PCA=61 and http://www.sirencentral.com/asp_pages/s ... 344&PCA=61

[dilloncarpenter]

I thought Thunderbeams had around the same coverage as Thunderbolts and 2001s. Anyway, some of these cities, Moore and Broken Arrow especially, have rediculous coverage. There is no way in the world that you shouldn't be able to hear those sirens.

IMO, overkill is better than spread out or no siren at all.

[kswx29]

I think Broken Arrow's system is perfect. A lot of times during storms the wind carry's the sound in different directions and you might not hear the sirens. In Broken Arrow the sirens are not only sounded for tornadoes but flash floods as well.

Federal rated the Thunderbeam at 128dB: http://www.jmarcoz.com/sirens/sc5.pdf. Siren Central on the other hand rates it at 121dB: http://www.sirencentral.com/asp_pages/s ... 348&PCA=61 and http://www.sirencentral.com/asp_pages/s ... 344&PCA=61

I think it is 121db, I usually give Thunderbeams .920 mile radius as I used to live a little under a mile from a Thunderbeam and heard it routinely.

EDIT: Also, I think Claremore uses their Thunderbeams as a "Backup" incase the whelens fail.