Whelen Hornet, Full Hi-Lo: Paoli, IN (Orange Co. Tornado Siren Test, HD)
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Copyright 2016, Brandon Mendel (Please use with permission).
Originally Recorded 12/23/2016
Roughly a month ago, I met up with Chris and Nick once again to catch one of Paoli's oddly activated Hornets (You may have already seen their cool videos of them already). This one is located on the south part of town at Water and 3RD. There's another by the hospital which I recorded a couple times. It's possible there's a third siren, but from all the hunting I did, I couldn't find it (if it even exists).
Paoli has traditionally tested in 'wail', however at some point they started testing them in 'hi-lo' possibly every week, but not always. I'm guessing it depends on the dispatcher testing the system. Another siren enthusiast checked this out last year and it did the usual wail. You could imagine how surprised we all were when this siren quickly switched back to the 'hi-lo' tone.
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I’m addicted to listening to these sirens for some reason. There creepy and cool at the same time.
@stephensnell1379
3 жыл бұрын
The creepy sound is to make people react to them when they go off
@stephensnell1379
3 жыл бұрын
And I love watching these sort of views on KZread too
@williamburkett1563
Жыл бұрын
Same
@carolinewampler7935
Жыл бұрын
@@stephensnell1379 megatron doctor do you think 🤔 everyone can hear 👂 that doctor Eggman I think the people who live on Mars can hear 👂it
@robertgift
Жыл бұрын
I'd much rather hear a real spinning-rotor siren - like my *Federal Signal 2t22A* . When concluding a monthy test, love hearing it coast down for over a minute to rotor stop.
Whelen Hornet gets to be my favorite siren now! Thank you for sharing this!
@stephensnell5707
6 ай бұрын
You mean Favourite
@Lugia.The.Pokemon
5 ай бұрын
@@stephensnell5707it's the same thing
@frenchlouegie2552
5 ай бұрын
Same
This has got to be my favorite Whelen I've ever heard!
@AlphaWolf12
2 жыл бұрын
I prefer the thunderbolt
@HardDriveGuruOfficial
Жыл бұрын
@@AlphaWolf12 Me too, but Thunderbolts were made by Federal Signal and I was talking about sirens manufactured by Whelen.
@chancejackson6918
Жыл бұрын
Well the whelen vertex R4 is my favorite with alert
@carolinewampler7935
Жыл бұрын
@@chancejackson6918 martian siren 🚨
I live in French Lick, about fifteen or so minutes down the highway from Paoli. I asked and siren tests are conducted every Friday at noon. Sometimes earlier, sometimes up at nearly 20 minutes late. The one near my apartment (by the school in town) does the wail, not the hi-lo. Just some updated info, in case anyone wants to know.
1:08 "oh, hello!"
@beniciotheproducerarchive227
4 жыл бұрын
Menno Van der weide Lol
@surod10
4 жыл бұрын
lmao
@alexmcface
4 жыл бұрын
LOL (::)
@jackssirensrobloxandmore111
4 жыл бұрын
lol
@MonkeyFilmProductions
3 жыл бұрын
ACA cyclone 125 same bud Lolololololololololo0l0I0I0
I recently went to chandler ok a few weeks ago for the P-15 attack noon blast and I think going to siren tests are fun. Also love the vid.
I *love* that *windup*
@20v552
Жыл бұрын
what?
@Dogappel
Жыл бұрын
That’s wail for a few seconds
@skywolfx76
4 ай бұрын
@@20v552 a windup in a siren is often that noise you hear before the alarm, especially in older sirens
Omg I hear the courthouse bell in the background. I live in Paoli.
everybody gangsta till the siren start walking
@K-Star_TN
2 жыл бұрын
Until the siren starts flying 😏
@AlphaWolf12
2 жыл бұрын
BRUH
@WigWagProduction
2 жыл бұрын
Until the siren starts rotating
@Draynat
2 жыл бұрын
O:20
@WigWagProduction
2 жыл бұрын
0:20
What is the HiLo signal even used for? It sounds like it belongs to an emergency vehicle. Edit: Solved, thanks guys
@moonprincess500
7 жыл бұрын
Max Grassy the vortexes in my area used to do hi/low for tornado warnings until 2011.
@Elizabeth-ts4om
7 жыл бұрын
Max Grassy in some case scenarios, especially with 1003s and 3t22s, it is used for fire calls. I have heard of some places using it for tornado warnings too. This county most likely uses Hi Lo just for tests and does the usual Wail for warnings
@Felamine
7 жыл бұрын
In my town we have a chemical plant, and the local siren system sounds a hi-lo in case something happened there (chemical spill, fire, etc)
@cooldomino1800
6 жыл бұрын
Fire calls
@samanli-tw3id
6 жыл бұрын
In Indonesia, train crossings sound like that.
After decoding the activation DTMF it appears they send alert then hi-lo very quickly so the sirens do a shout boop before starting the hi-lo cycle A very interesting decision on their part
A cute siren with a very loud soundoff!
@susansorrentino6130
4 жыл бұрын
Yeah
@Dmonez
2 жыл бұрын
Awwww it does the high one to the low one
Love that siren. Very cool.
The hi lo tone suites this siren
Wow! It's loud!! The Whelen Hornet is amazing!!!
@onesadcomputer
3 жыл бұрын
Say siren
@Whyyoutubewhy..
2 жыл бұрын
@@onesadcomputer siren
@FreddyFazbear-os4su
2 жыл бұрын
True that!
@CadeRankin2006
2 жыл бұрын
@@onesadcomputer siren
@darius684
Жыл бұрын
@@onesadcomputer Siren
Love the sound of that whelen Whelen Hornets are my favorite
@immortalgamingyt6182
3 жыл бұрын
It stings with sound
Whelen Engineering: CEO: Okay, we need some new ideas, the public are looking for quality over quantity. George: How about a air/electric hybrid siren? CEO: STFU GEORGE Molly: Why not put a speaker on a pole, and charge it saying it can travel "3 times" farther CEO: MOLLY, APPROVED I LOVE IT.
@rnbsteenstar
5 жыл бұрын
@Mike Graham If something went wrong with the speakers. you'd have another option.
@1000BT
4 жыл бұрын
It needs. COLLECTOR RINGS
@Bacony_Cakes
4 жыл бұрын
@@1000BT shut up about damn collector rings. it's not funny.
@Bacony_Cakes
4 жыл бұрын
@@1000BT SHUT.
@r1ckastl3y86
4 жыл бұрын
@@Bacony_Cakes uh, yeah it is. 🙄
in my elementary school there is a hi-lo sound in the PA system that is like this but faster and different pitched. for tornado drills and tornado's
@misery_fell
3 жыл бұрын
probably a thunderbolt 1003
@doohickey-enjoyer
2 жыл бұрын
@@misery_fell wha, WHA, PA SYSTEM? A SCHOOL PA SYSTEM??
Hornets have to be my favorite electronic siren!
@justaP42DC
2 жыл бұрын
I agree!
@williamburkett1563
Жыл бұрын
We have these kinds of sirens in hattiesburg
@williamburkett1563
Жыл бұрын
They sound so good
@boeinthuziast
Жыл бұрын
@Laongthong Somruetai then don’t reply.
@KawaiiHippityHop-cl5bb
6 ай бұрын
Mine is modulator
What's with boththea wail and Hi-Lo activation at the same time?
“Hornet, detention.” “No thanks. I already have enough tension on my wires.” “Then get collector rings.”
@2002_bugeyewrx
5 жыл бұрын
Stfu, your not funny at all tbh...!
@Bacony_Cakes
4 жыл бұрын
[Boring] (¬_¬)| /[ ]/ / \
@1000BT
4 жыл бұрын
Yeah
@r1ckastl3y86
4 жыл бұрын
OK, STFU.
I love the sound. also, 100th viewer!
@jableslables8029
3 жыл бұрын
.
@progen1140
3 жыл бұрын
@@jableslables8029 ???
I love tornado sirens
@TheSirenManiacYT
Жыл бұрын
Same
This is going to be the best video in the world
Honestly, hi-lo is the best tone Whelen sirens do (besides the wail tone). I’ve seen an old video of a WPS-2750 doing hi-lo and it sounds majestic! The newer tone is great as well
the whelen air horn is a really sped up hi-lo
Siren is like an German ambulance
@lavsu
Жыл бұрын
It's an Hi-Lo siren it is supposed to sound like that
The siren in the video is just south of elm street, near the school.
@DSRX100
4 жыл бұрын
Hey there, thanks for the comment! This one is actually on 3rd Street and Water, next to the river. Are you saying there's a siren near the school? I must have missed it if there was.
Someone had a tornado at there house and the siren is the same
Why did they do a Wail activation and THEN a Hi-Lo activation?
@zachj9359
7 жыл бұрын
they are programmed to do that
@flyoversirens3704
7 жыл бұрын
I imagine dispatch just screwed up like they did just for me. I had a WPS 2909 and waited ten minutes after the scheduled test. It went off as I put my camera in the case.
@seanjuth
7 жыл бұрын
Because the dispatch lady disiced to screw around with the controll console
@niks_crazy_world
7 жыл бұрын
i think they had 3 DTMF strings, and the 3rd was for wail. Then, they added a 4th for Hi-Lo and kept the third in the activation.
@byronrieckman8416
5 жыл бұрын
Most likely a minor glitch in the programing
Actually could you please make another video I like the siren especially in this town I like this stone
I love the sound of it
Kinda odd that most states use this as a tornado warning. Because where I live this is used as a Severe Flood Warning.
@KawaiiHippityHop-cl5bb
Жыл бұрын
It would be creepier if this was an severe flood warning instead of a tornado.
What about the Whelen vortex? It has the same high low sound
When the hilo goes really fast speed then you get airhorn
I love this video
I'm jealous that you got it in hi-lo lol. Wail was good last year too, I guess.
@susansorrentino6130
3 жыл бұрын
Bru just go to a speaker siren (if ur the part to the Siren testers) and make it do hi low and uh ye- OK IM LAZY FOR THE 676767676th TIME
@huaweiy6.256
3 жыл бұрын
รเนีส่า
@huaweiy6.256
3 жыл бұрын
าามทมัเก
THAT IS A VERY WEIRD SIREN!
@asirenenthusiast1
3 жыл бұрын
Its a whelen hornet
@FA50PH
3 жыл бұрын
Ikr
That Can Be Used For A Ambulance! AND It's Perfect!
How much sound cancellation occurs in that reentrant horn exponential speaker? Why not have a long exponential path "tube" without folding it back within itself? Speaker driver wattage?
@kansasclocksandsirens
Жыл бұрын
Late reply I know, but the speaker driver is 400w
@robertgift
Жыл бұрын
@@kansasclocksandsirens Thank you. One driver or four 100-watt drivers in parallel? My emergencyehicle sirehas two 100-watt drivers in parallel. Just replaced the two Whelen SA315 speakers with Federal Signal TS100s but put longer cones in the TS100s. Wife say too loud. (We blare the siren asparingly as possible.)
@kansasclocksandsirens
Жыл бұрын
@@robertgift It uses a single 400w driver
@robertgift
Жыл бұрын
@@kansasclocksandsirens Wow! Thank you. Better to have two 200-watt drivers in case one burns out.
@kansasclocksandsirens
Жыл бұрын
@@robertgift Np
in whelen sirens why do they have like cylinders stacked on top of each other
@AtlanticCoastRailfanner
7 жыл бұрын
Mr Goomba Tam Official its the drivers that make them sound
@StormFlareRecords
7 жыл бұрын
Sirens Of South Carolina of my siren stopped working
@thecoldflame4844
7 жыл бұрын
Sirens/Railroads Of South Carolina yes and no. The Cylinders,assuming your talking about the black things,Help the sounds go all around. But if your talking about the drivers in the middle, then yes your exactly right.
@azuki2919
6 жыл бұрын
They have them because it's to make the siren loud and not only that part of the things ask hockey puks they need them to run the signels
@ravensight1
6 жыл бұрын
Oh you mean the giant stacks of hockey pucks?
What is making those beeping sounds right before it starts up?
@Bzons
5 жыл бұрын
DTMF Tones
@Bacony_Cakes
4 жыл бұрын
[If you don't know, DTMF tones are like little instructions that tell the siren what to do.] (^_^)| /[ ]/ / \
Sounds like in old ambulance.🚨
The Whelen chimes and hi lo sound is nostalgic to me
Sound output @100?
Have completed the Drive thru mission
0:20 probably how those recorded and used the signals to set off all the sirens on Texas
@NTXsirens-eas
3 жыл бұрын
Unless you put the speed at 0.75 or 0.5
@minnesconsinsirens6803
3 жыл бұрын
No different digits of dtmf.
@gmax341
3 жыл бұрын
@@minnesconsinsirens6803 for sure.
Try testing the one in mayfield,KS Its right beside the fire dept.
How does the rotator in one of these work?
@tornadoandfiresirensofohio8479
2 жыл бұрын
They don't have collector a Rings but idk
Its like a german police BMW Motorcycle siren
@surod10
4 жыл бұрын
Correct never heard it in real but ik how it sounds well it does sound like that
@samuelfellows6923
4 жыл бұрын
Similar to the nee-norr tone mode used on our British police vehicles - 🇬🇧, didn’t sound that eerie to me, not your traditional civil-defence siren walling tone = deliberately designed to sound eerie, and grab your attention to the danger its warning about.
@JeeWeeD
3 жыл бұрын
And with the bleeps it reminds me even more of the siren and the (telex?) sounds in the tune of the Dutch crime tv programme 'Opsporing Verzocht' ('Wanted'): kzread.info/dash/bejne/e2aDqLqeoJu7mqg.html
@GeniRogers88
3 жыл бұрын
Wow whelen hornet are my favorites
@GeniRogers88
3 жыл бұрын
And too ford crown victoria japan siren
This is what our town would play if our huge dam broke it would have our town under 70 ft of water in 3 hrs
Well, it seems like Whelen sucks, because their sirems don't just continue the rotation, but turning the other way around then.
@DSRX100
7 жыл бұрын
That's actually a good thing it does that. Collector rings don't work as well for electronic sirens
@fahmirblx
7 жыл бұрын
DSRX100 Gulp!
@fahmirblx
7 жыл бұрын
DSRX100 For your information, DSRX, I drew a Whelen Hornet in my Sketchbook.
@ravensight1
7 жыл бұрын
FahmiRBLX the whelens have wires.
@ravensight1
7 жыл бұрын
FahmiRBLX yeah. Whelen broke its wires.............😂
I dont know but in some strange way im fascinated by the sirens
@stephensnell5707
Жыл бұрын
Well that is a good thing We all have our own fascinations these days
Man, that whelen hornet look so tiny on that pole.....
why does this feel like it should be a chopper siren
Wait what. is this orange county California? If it is. Thank you for telling me. I live near there! I only saw an Whelen WPS something and san clementay beach. And at Newport beach and Federal signal something.
@DSRX100
7 жыл бұрын
caliroadgeek Nope, this is Indiana
@evilabi2664
7 жыл бұрын
Oh, Orange county in California. On the web I searched up "Orange County warning sirens" There were tons in orange county. Wensday, 10am trough 1pm they are tested. Never heard them go of.
@daniellesealey2219
7 жыл бұрын
DSRX100 it sounds like an ambulance
@ravensight1
7 жыл бұрын
caliroadgeek no
@yaraihan
6 жыл бұрын
Danielle Sealey DSRX100 European Emergency Vehicles & Indonesian Railroad Crossing Sound
I think Catherine at dispatch push the wail button and the Hi-Lo button at the same time
Fire truck germany??? Song alarm???
That Whelen Hornet in this video had the tone that is identical to the British Ambulances though the tone is not quite identical
It looks like a giant speaker on a rotation mount and a pole
@mnsirens
7 жыл бұрын
Raymon That's kinda what it is to be honest
@DieselBroddi
7 жыл бұрын
I have one of my own I got it last week and the driver in it is broken
@mnsirens
7 жыл бұрын
Raymon Have any plans of fixing or replacing the driver?
@Elizabeth-ts4om
7 жыл бұрын
That's because it IS a giant speaker on a rotation mount and pole
@George_M55729
7 жыл бұрын
that's because it is.
That sounds like a police, fire truck, or ambulance siren. I made a typo...
@juniortheone7952
5 жыл бұрын
Really
Fun fact whelens don’t have collector rings so they rotate clockwise and the other way so there wires won’t break
@stephensnell1379
2 жыл бұрын
You mean their
@centralillinoissirens.
2 жыл бұрын
I knew that before you said it because bsp Collecter rings Collecter rings Collecter rings😅
@stephensnell5707
Жыл бұрын
@@centralillinoissirens. what on earth are Collector Rings? I have never heard of them before
Paint it yellow and black! 😂🐝
Holy crap it's amazing
Amazing this prob my favriote siren
Is it a fan or a speaker and I like it without the speaker
@DSRX100
3 жыл бұрын
Speaker
Thanks
Why when the rotator is spinning it changes🤨🧐🤔
@stephensnell5707
5 ай бұрын
You can easily tell the reason for that While you are watching this Video you can easily spot the wire that goes from the Rotator to the Siren Head,the change of direction(rotating in one way and then the other) is to avoid the wire snapping in half
German Police Car Sound 😂
0:24 hi lo test
How much power does the amp in these have? They're damn loud!
@DSRX100
3 жыл бұрын
400 watts
@ArlenMoulton2
3 жыл бұрын
@@DSRX100 damn, I just wish they were actually available in the UK, I'd love to play with one!
@stephensnell1379
3 жыл бұрын
@@ArlenMoulton2 that is because the UK doesn't get that many Tornadoes in the UK if we had as many as the USA we would have tornado sirens here in the UK and one more thing a Tornado Siren isn't designed to be messed around with
@ntytp
3 жыл бұрын
@@DSRX100 This thing has less watts than a microwave…
@stephensnell5707
2 жыл бұрын
@@ntytp and that makes sense as it's not as big as many others
What is that ? One of thing 1000 whelen 677
Oh God it's a hornet get the repellent
Put the speed up to 2x and you got yourself an ambulance siren
These sirens must be used for small gap fillers. Or very small towns.
@DSRX100
5 жыл бұрын
I pretty much see them being used in small towns. Paoli's situation is kind of weird. Being a larger town, they could've (and should've) went with larger sirens. There's some talk of these getting replaced but that's about it...
@eastcoastalerting
5 жыл бұрын
Idk. Those things are LOUD.
Why those kind of electronic sirens do not really rotate over 360 degrees? Any idea?
@DSRX100
5 жыл бұрын
These sirens don't have collector rings. So the head is directly wired to the rotator. If it were to continue rotating without turning back, the wires would snap.
@NeilPrasad_1905
5 жыл бұрын
But you know sirens like t-128, thunderbolt, p50, etc. can rotate over 360 degrees.
@DSRX100
5 жыл бұрын
Yes, that's because they have collector rings.
@NeilPrasad_1905
5 жыл бұрын
Then why Whelen rotating sirens don't have collector rings?
@queencitysirens8755
5 жыл бұрын
@@NeilPrasad_1905 Because a mechanical siren doesn't have drivers and an amplifier that needs to bring a signal to them. It's just easier and doesn't really matter. Electronic sirens without collector rings are more reliable in my opinion. Plus no collector rings are small enough to carry almost 0 volts, unless the drivers are on a 70v amp, but I don't think they are.
Its looks like its sounded like a fire truck 🚒
i think whelens the best tornado siren maker
They test the sirens every Friday at noon.
how do you here the dtmf tones?
@minnesconsinsirens6803
3 жыл бұрын
Scanner
There is a whelen 2810 that will go off on the upcoming Monday. And this time I hope I won’t be late to record it like the other two times
Reminds me of a thunderbolt 1003 hi-lo test but more louder
This thing is so cute!
@punkinmonk
7 жыл бұрын
The Siren Kid cute but LOUD!!
@AtlanticCoastRailfanner
7 жыл бұрын
ConnorW07 TheEmeraldGamer IKR
@AtlanticCoastRailfanner
7 жыл бұрын
ConnorW07 TheEmeraldGamer this is why i call it The Little Beast
We used to have whelens but they were replaced with thunderbolts and p50s
@emvvehicles_8
5 жыл бұрын
Equinox_Wolf Backup I thought they stopped making thunderbolts 30 years ago.
@queencitysirens8755
5 жыл бұрын
For some reason, I don't believe that.
@r1ckastl3y86
4 жыл бұрын
@@emvvehicles_8 uhh, I think they still make them.
I like that siren also cs8 has hi-lo
I was expecting it’s tone to be more deep
My brother said there was a bucket siren in gatlinburg and i showed him a picture of this and he said yes then we went and it was a actual bucket on a pole and i got really angry
What radio frequency do these activation tones play on
@stephensnell1379
3 жыл бұрын
That's a thing no person except the Siren activators must know Keeping it secret will stop the sirens in multiple states from being hacked like that happened in Dallas,Texas in 2017 when the 156 sirens got hacked and set off for up to 3 hours by a hacker⚠️A KZread video mentions a hacker figured out the frequency that all the sirens operate at which caused all 156 sirens to blare false alarms from 11:56pm the previous night to 1:20am(a video also mentions the Rado system that operates the sirens was totally shut down in the early hours the of the morning the next day (this was done to get the sirens quiet so the people in Dallas could sleep properly)
@minnesconsinsirens6803
2 жыл бұрын
666.666
If your sirens a failin, chances are its a whelen.
@Kasey1776
3 жыл бұрын
*posts it on a video of a fully functional Hornet*
Idk why they call it the hornet the hornet should be the p-50
shes literally so beautiful and amazing and perfect
@stephensnell1379
3 жыл бұрын
Very true in my opinion early day tornado sirens last longer than the modern up to date ones The one in this video sounds perfect It sounds exactly like the siren on a British Police car or maybe even a British Fire Engine or Ambulance for that matter
Whoa! Lots of activations!
@stephensnell1379
3 жыл бұрын
3 in total-number of activations
@mktissuperkool750
3 жыл бұрын
@@stephensnell1379 heh
@stephensnell1379
3 жыл бұрын
@@mktissuperkool750 as it shows on screen in the video before the Siren goes off its a 2 tone activation
Got this confused with two tone sirens
😍😍❤️ good video
it literally sounds like a peaceful slowed down police or ambulance siren LOL
Omg, that tornado siren sounds scary and very old
@stephensnell1379
3 жыл бұрын
Old ones are the best
Can it do airhorn like the WPS-4004?
@r1ckastl3y86
4 жыл бұрын
Yes, it can
@Windows9inety5ive
4 жыл бұрын
@@r1ckastl3y86 Then I will search the Hornet doing airh.
is this in NY bc it might be my county
Nice!
Love it