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2017 Indiana SWA Tornado Drill Day

Thu Mar 23, 2017 12:39 pm

Thought I'd start a thread for sharing Hoosier test day videos from Tuesday. Mine are below. There's more info in each video description. Enjoy!

Morning: Thunderbolt failure / 2001s in attack - Lebanon, Indiana
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6DXSzYa4Js

Evening: Single phase Thunderbeam in alert - Crawfordsville, Indiana
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbZ5im00lbA
- Brad Meiser, 32, my couch is < 400 yards from a 2001-130 and my desk at work is < 200 feet from an Eclipse 8. I'm well warned.

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Re: 2017 Indiana SWA Tornado Drill Day

Thu Mar 23, 2017 5:55 pm

While Brad was at the East Side Thunderbolt in Logansport, I went to the downtown Model 5T that Bill was also at. Pretty healthy sounding siren and luckily the County wants to keep the older sirens around. Look for the Evening Drill Video later this evening from Crawfordsville.

Logansport, Cass County Federal Signal Model 5T
Indiana SWAW Morning Tornado Drill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR5U3gWkOfw
"The Federal Thunderbolt siren is a rotating-beam siren that disperses high-intensity warning signals over a large area." :TBolt:

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Re: 2017 Indiana SWA Tornado Drill Day

Thu Mar 23, 2017 8:21 pm

For the morning drill we tried a 7V8 in Knox. Either both of the Knox sirens failed (the 7V8 and an STH-10) or the dispatcher who ran the test didn't know what he was doing. I'm leaning towards the latter.

For the evening test I decided to try the new 7V8 in Elkhart county, located at the Osolo Township fire station. As of now the only time the siren is tested is on SWA. The test was over 10 minutes early, so I missed a fraction of the wind up.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrvX7klSDd8

As for Logansport's system, from what I'm able to piece together, only the 2001s at Fairview Park and Bishop Park run for three minutes. Everything else stops after a minute.
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Re: 2017 Indiana SWA Tornado Drill Day

Thu Mar 23, 2017 8:29 pm

Notre.Dame1003 wrote:
Thu Mar 23, 2017 8:21 pm
As for Logansport's system, from what I'm able to piece together, only the 2001s at Fairview Park and Bishop Park run for three minutes. Everything else stops after a minute.
The Cass County EMA director said that many of his spotters reported the differences in activation length to him during the tests and he's now looking into re-timing all of the sirens in the county to sound for the same amount of time. Not sure whether that's for 3 minutes or 1 minute, hopefully the former.
- Brad Meiser, 32, my couch is < 400 yards from a 2001-130 and my desk at work is < 200 feet from an Eclipse 8. I'm well warned.

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https://www.instagram.com/nader_sirens

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Re: 2017 Indiana SWA Tornado Drill Day

Fri Mar 24, 2017 2:33 am

Got this 3T22 with Michael, August, Austin, and Calvin:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuhC1IZfOkQ
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Re: 2017 Indiana SWA Tornado Drill Day

Fri Mar 24, 2017 4:25 am

4J25 wrote:
Fri Mar 24, 2017 2:33 am
Got this 3T22 with Michael, August, Austin, and Calvin:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuhC1IZfOkQ
Gadzooks that thing is low! How much fun y'all must have had!

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Re: 2017 Indiana SWA Tornado Drill Day

Fri Mar 24, 2017 9:38 am

The evening drill from Crawfordsville,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWE5kAO3WKA
"The Federal Thunderbolt siren is a rotating-beam siren that disperses high-intensity warning signals over a large area." :TBolt:

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