Tornado Sirens at Night in Topeka, KS

Line of storms developed around 12:30am and started producing 70mph winds as it came sweeping into Shawnee County. No tornado warning was issued, they accidently sounded the sirens. At the end of the video the rain started falling and you can hear the gust front of 70mph winds moving into my neighborhood... so I went inside.

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[milestailsprower3]

omg. sounds creepy in pitch dark

[pistolwhipper]

careful what you wish for

[CHERMOTLEYCRUEFAN87]

sounds pretty.

[Caddl123]

Im from Europe-eactly from Germany

.The sirens in the USA are so different,in every community there are some sirens,they sound different.If you come to germany or france you can hear only one or two types of sirens.

I "like the Choirs" of your sirens,but its creepy if you know for what they are warning.I woud ran downstairs or seek shelter in a massive and solid house.

Here in germany we dont have any special signal for "tornado warnings"

[cateluv]

@ferrarimike23 You'll need to pay extra taxes for that and register it.

[cateluv]

@jdprice455 Sirens are only sounded when there is rotation or a tornado in the area. They just installed a new siren system here in Topeka and they are horrible. You can barely hear them in my house when they're testing them, let alone outside when it's storming out.

[ferrarimike23]

I live in Topeka Kansa and I have a penis

[djcuen95]

This is REALLY eerie/creepy... o_0

[esyale187]

woohooo i love these sirens!

[kswx92]

Creepy!!

[tanmanplayer]

Just a typical Kansas day... Did I hear a couple of cricket chirps near the end?

[Berlin1811]

What you say's true, but I have also heard that (not by law: last I looked, there wasn't a law applied to siren activations) when a Severe Thunderstorm Warning is issued in a county where a Tornado Watch is already in effect, sirens will be sounded since the Watch indicates any storm that forms in the area is more likely to become tornadic. Not to say anything otherwise about your situation:just pointing out that there may be times where counties will sound the alert for a non TOR Warning storm.