Tornado Siren (Broken Rotator)

Federal Signal Thunderbolt 1000T (rotator broken)

Thursday, April 14, 2011

1:45pm

East St. Cloud, Minnesota (Sherburne County)

Minnesota Statewide Tornado Drill (1st one)

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News & Politics

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• minnesota
• statewide
• tornado
• drill
• siren

[LouisvilleTorn8o]

I thought that St. Cloud sounded their sirens in Alert for tornado warnings.

[LilStewerdess]

@LouisvilleTorn8o Actually both Sherburne and Stearns counties use attack. At least in the 3 years Ive lived here. I have only heard alert once and that was during a monthly test.

[Worcester2007]

@LilStewerdess What about Benton County? I heard St Cloud takes up three Counties. Sherburne. Stearns, and Benton. Does Elk River in Sherburne County use attack sugnal during warnings too?

[LilStewerdess]

@Worcester2007 To be honest. I don't know. St. Cloud does have land in those 3 counties.. but the sirens that each part uses is controlled by the county and not the city. I'm assuming if St. Cloud (Sherburne Co.) uses attack then Elk River must also.. but I've never hear the Elk River sirens go off, so I honestly couldn't tell you.

[Worcester2007]

@LilStewerdess When I looked on Bing Maps, it did show St Cloud is in three Counties. You can see for yourself if you want. I am more in the Metro area and all the Counties around here use alert. Even some Suburbs here are split into two Counties like St. Anthony Village are in both Hennepin and Ramsey Counties, Spring Lake Park and Blaine are mostly in Anoka County and a very small portion of both of those Suburbs are in Ramsey County.

[LilStewerdess]

@Worcester2007 I know. In my prior post I said that St. Cloud DOES have land in those 3 counties. And yes, the metro tends to use Alert. I lived in Minneapolis and the Thunderbolt 1000T I lived near always did alert. But here in St. Cloud I have heard the sirens every month for testing for 2 years now (also, tornado warnings) and all but one time it has been alert that sounds.

[MegaPrincessmeg]

FIX THE ROATER ASAP!:)

[lilaj34siren]

that boy got an earful........the rotator probably just needs a new belt

[XxjoshthedragracerxX]

have you reported it to the EM?

[marcocasaro]

and the thunderbolt happened?

[soccerk8te38]

no top comments! this is my chance:)

[AKSoapy29]

Is it still there? I would like to check it out. :)

[brickman619]

Why is the rotator broken, maybe just after so many uses it just got old. Nice video!

[mohkfry]

Awesome video! I wonder why the Blower cut out before the siren was deactivated?