The Siren Board

Post here which colleges use sirens for their campus.

Michigan State in East Lansing now have 2001's (5 i think). They used to have 4 single tone low pitch t-bolts. Those old t-bolts could be heard a good 4 miles away on a still day in neighboring Lansing. New 2001's went up a couple of years ago.

UofM in Ann Arbor is coverd by the city system of 2001's.

Texas Tech University - STH10s (Sentry or Model 5 possibly as well).

University of Texas - DSAs.

University of North Texas - T-128s

The University of Cincinnati has 2 Thunderbolt 1000's maintained by the cit of Cincinnati.


I forget who, but someone here said that Arizona State has 4 omni-directional Whelens.

Motlow State Community College (Tullahoma, TN)
-Whelen VortexR4

Siren covers the entire college campus and the western most part of the Tullahoma city limits. This siren is used for tornado warnings/ severe weather only as with the rest of the city sirens.

University Of Tennessee Space Institute (Tullahoma, TN)
-Whelen WPS 2803

Siren covers college campus activated for tornado warnings and security alerts and is tied in with the Tullahoma vortex siren system.

Middle Tennessee State University (Murfreesboro, TN)
-WPS 2810

Siren covers the MTSU campus and is activated whenever Rutherford County is issued a tornado warning.

Vanderbuilt University (Nashville, TN)
-FS 2001, FS Modulators

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville has a Whelen Vortex / 4000 mounted on one of the buildings. Not sure if it's used for tornadoes or any other emergency or both or what.

Iowa State University Modulator MOD5020s, five of them I think.

Brandeis University (Waltham, MA) has 3 or so of your average 4-speaker ATI.

Skidmore College (Saratoga Springs, NY) has a 3-cell Whelen omni of some sort on top of the library.

The University of Connecticut has a multitude of 4-speaker ASC E-Class sirens on its main campus (Storrs, CT), which replaced 2 (I think) Thunderbolts that they might never have taken down. These E-Class sirens are also located on their other, much smaller campuses elsewhere throughout the state.

Iowa Univertsity- Whelen Omnis

Mizzou-I think someone on here said they had Modulaters? Columbia has 2001s, T-bolts, and a few 2T22s

Central Missouri College-lots of Model 2s

Avila College- 2001-SRNB that replaced a Thunderbolt

Northwest Missouri College(I think thats the name)-Allertors?

The University of Iowa is in the process of updating their siren system. Here is a link with a good deal of information about the siren system and some audio clips of voice and siren tone warnings they use for signaling.

http://www.uiowa.edu/~pubsfty/siren.htm

The other day they launched a surprise test of the siren system so I was trying to get a good recording of the electronic voice alert the sirens were emitting. One of them must have malfunctioned as it could be heard across Iowa City for nearly twenty five minutes!