Re: Cincinnati Metropolitan Area Sirens
Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2019 12:05 am
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Cool find!maxshaw wrote: ↑Wed Apr 03, 2019 9:02 pmhttps://www.weather.gov/media/iln/event ... ummary.pdf
This article from the Wilmington Ohio NWS gives an interesting summary of the tornado outbreak on April 3-4, 1974. According to this, the first time that Hamilton County ever activated its sirens for a tornado warning was for the Sayler Park tornado.
This coming Tuesday, April 9 will be the 20-year anniversary of the outbreak that produced F4 tornado in Blue Ash and Montgomery, as well as an F1 in Addyston. Keep an eye out for news stories. This is what prompted the EMA to push for battery backup sirens, as I remember seeing an old Enquirer article from 1999 listing and mapping out sirens that did not activate. Some were due to power outages, and others did not activate for other reasons. I remember these sirens being on the list:
Addyston Municipal Building (Thunderbolt)
Addyston VFW Hall (Hurricane)
Sayler Park Elementary School (SD-10)
Cleves Municipal Building (STL-10)
Two Miami Township Fire Stations (2 P-15s)
Oak Hills High School (Thunderbolt)
Diamond Oaks (Thunderbolt)
St. Joseph Church in North Bend (SD-10)
Baughman Rd. in Harrison Twp. (Excel T-128)... I remember this one was listed as having a burned out motor, which I doubt was true. It would most likely have been replaced if that was the case. But of course we all know that the EMA personnel in these days were a lot more clueless than today's staff.
