February 28th an EF 3 tornado went through Naplate IL and crossed the Illinois river into the south side of Ottawa causing much damage in both towns and unfortunately killing 2 people in Ottawa. If you search "Ottawa IL tornado" there are several good videos of it on YouTube. I live on the north side of Ottawa near I-80, from my front porch I could hear the roar of the tornado and could also hear Naplate's siren (I think it's an STL-10, I'm no expert but it was pretty low toned) when Ottawa's 2001s and the rooftop Thunderbolt 1000 downtown came on I headed for the basement. Naplate's siren was on the roof of the Pilkington glass factory and they suffered a direct hit that caused heavy damage to every building and also took out the siren.
http://www.mywebtimes.com/news/local/na ... 6ed59.html
I'm not sure of it's fate, it may have been scrapped already but it didn't look that bad to me just a little bent up but they said it was beyond repair. Naplate is a small town that doesn't have a lot of money so I wondered what they would do. Tonight there was an article in the paper that they had ordered a new "WPS 29" siren which I assume is a Whelen 2900 series, for a little over $30k. I'm not sure how they're paying for it but it says they have a gofundme page that has around $3k so far.