The Siren Board

Also maybe the fact most of the country is on lockdown due to a global pandemic and sounding emergency sirens might terrify some folks?

Dublin DID test today. Did Franklin county?

Tuba wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 01, 2020 4:04 pm

Dublin DID test today. Did Franklin county?

I definitely heard my local 4004 wind up, so the answer is a yep.

I heard the one over in Linworth go off when I was working last Wednesday.

A new activation procedure is in use in Franklin County. Based on what I noticed in last hour's tornado warning, the activation procedure goes like this: Sirens will do a growl (quick activation) county-wide if a tornado warning is issued anywhere in the county. In the zone of the tornado warning, sirens will do a 3 minute alert. Here's my reasoning:

There are 2 sirens covering my house, let's call them Siren 1 and Siren 2, for privacy reasons. Both of these sirens are in the Northwest zone. These did the growl when the warnings started, as well as my weather radio, in the middle of a school zoom call, so I left the call and checked to see what was happening. A tornado warning was in the southwest corner of the county, and I could faintly hear sirens going off. Every 7 minutes (I didn't time it but I assume), the sirens would growl again. One of the times they growled, Siren 1 stayed on for the full 3 minutes, I think it didn't pick up cancellation tones. This siren is north of Siren 2, so I don't think they would activate only that one in the zone for a warning south of the county. The growls happened every 7 minutes as the warning continued, so one of the times, the sirens went off in a 3 minute tone and right after they were growled. Also, as far as I know, Dublin didn't activate any sirens today, which is not normal for them. I can usually hear their wail tone from my house.

I have a few videos, but I would have to edit them, so I might post them later.

Sweet! Can't wait to see it!

It's not much... I was caught by surprise. I'm not sure how much footage I got since I was busy with getting my house ready. I didn't get any of the growls to my knowledge.

I caught a bit of ambiance from my room. I did hear the long 3 minute alert at one point, thinking that every warning from there on out was going to be that long, but the theory above makes sense.

Oh the one you got, I think, was when the warning was cancelled. That was supposed to be a 3 minute alert, but it was cut short. I swear the folks at EMA were just hitting random buttons, maybe this whole thing is related to someone different activating them due to the virus.

I was wondering what was happening. I was recording the Dublin sirens and I swore I heard a short alert from the NW zone (which I didn’t think was activated in the original warning), but I disregarded it. I’ll probably upload the recording later. I also got a thor lightning guard ambience

I think we could maybe see another activation this year, so it’ll be interesting to confirm this.