The Siren Board

Even tho this was on the old board i thought i would start it up again here.

The Shawnee County/Topeka, Kansas area has a total of 68 Federal Signal Sirens which consist of Model 5s, 500ATs, 2t22s, Thunderbolt1000s, STL-10s, 2001s, and Thunderbeams. The sirens are tested every monday at noon weather permiting. The system is sounded for tornadoes. Also the unlikely event of an National Attack. The tornado alert tone is Steady and the Attack alert tone is the wail tone. Below is a map of the sirens in Topeka, KS.

We have 7 Whelen Vortex sirens here in Tullahoma. They are only sounded for tornado warnings which are very common in Tennessee and my area. We average about 4-5 tornado warnings a year in the Tullahoma metro area. The sirens are also tested the 2nd Saturday of he month at noon(weather permitting). The Vortex sirens cover the city quite well and are probably the most effective Electronic siren available today the sound travels very far about 2 1/2 miles. Below is a link to the map of the sirens http://www.tullahoma-tn.com/images/siren.jpg

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Very little information exists about Sedgwick County, Kansas' siren system but I do know that it mostly consists of Thunderbolts. There are two Whelens that I know of; a 4008 east of Valley Center on High Point Airport and a 4004 in Bentley. There are a few Model 2s, 5s and 2T22/3T22s scattered throughout and the rest are 2001s.

These are the sirens in Marion County, Oregon. Like almost all Oregon counties, they do not have a countywide siren system. Those that exist are controlled by local entities, such as fire departments. All are at fire stations unless noted.

Federal Signal Model 2: Brooks, Lake Labish, Aumsville, Jefferson, Hubbard, Pratum (removed)

Federal Signal Model 5: Salem (Santiam Corr. Facility), Stayton (hilltop), St. Paul (old FD), Keizer, Aurora, Mehama.

Federal Signal STH-10: Monitor

Federal Signal 3T22: Mount Angel (police station)

Federal Signal Model A/L street clearers: Mount Angel (police station -- removed), Aumsville, Detroit.

Sterling models: Silverton (city hall -- single tone M5, dual head), Gervais (bottom rotor type), Marion (Little Giant)

Darley Champion "Model 5" size: Waconda, Sublimity, Mill City, Salem (Oregon State Pen.), Scotts Mills

Darley Champion Dual Head: Turner (low tone)

ACA/ASC models: Donald (Screamer)

I'd say about 8 2001AC/DCs here in Austin, a 2001SRN and deactivated Model 2 in Mapleview (a suburb), a Screamer in Lyle, STH-10 and one of our old TBolts in Rose Creek, STH-10 in Brownsdale, STH-10 in Blooming Prairie.
Owatonna has a system of 2001's, RSH-10s, STH-10s, 20Vs and possible Cyclones/P-50s (heard during a news broadcast of tornadoes in the Owatonna area)


We had 4 Tbolt 1000Ts, 2 2T22s and 2 SD-10s, one 2001SRN (replaced a third SD-10) and one darley in our old system (The Darley is still up but disconnected)