Thunderbolt 1003 All 3 Signals

Richland Center, WI's 1003. Steady used for weather, Attack not used. HI-LO used for fires. This siren in still in service as of Dec 2010, however it's been taken off the Auditorium downtown and moved out to the industrial park. HI-LO, unfortunately, is not used anymore, which is the only reason this particular model of Thunderbolt used to be so popular amongst fire department and people fascinated by sirens in general. This is also the ONLY reason I recorded it. At the time it used hi-lo once per month and liberally for county-wide firecalls.

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[aaronsmithbg]

What is that logo that is on the bottom right corner?

[Benh1003]

@aaronsmithbg Divx. It used to be the best video compressor back then when size of your videos matter. It took a huge couple hundred mb video, shaved off a zero and made it look and sound the same.

[garyhstorms10]

Could you get a video of this Thunderbolt 1003 at is new location and i can still remember a video of this but it was only a audio recording video from the old Wisconsin Sirens Website and each signal was a 30 second test could you upload that one if you still have it saved

[Benh1003]

@garyhstorms10

Actually Gary, not only is there that audio recording(which I think I have 2 different tests of in different orders and time lengths) but there is a video of this siren on "Tornado Awareness Day" doing a 3 minute alert, which isn't as exciting or anything, but it was recorded none the less! I'll see if I can't search for those on the drives.

[Benh1003]

I have not allowed comments on this video. I just put it back up so it wouldn't fade from existance. I am the original author.

[Siren1000T1]

Thanks for putting it back up. Its sad that this doesn't do fire call anymore but I am glad that it is at least still in use.

[BellyJae]

Ahhh, I remember this video from years ago. :)

I missed it :)

[firebrigade101]

Excellent t-bolt action!!!

[HotTop202]

ah...this siren brought up some old memories when i used to set in the basement during the second gulf war,,,,

im from kuwait actually....

[funneyguy25]

i live in rc and it is used for fire and weather. it just failed during the bad storm sunday. all the rest of the 2001s and the 2202s use atack so they swiched it to atack for fires.

[funneyguy25]

i live in rc and it is used for fire and weather. it just failed during the bad storm sunday.

[CoolBalla15]

125dBs at 100 ft.

[BBOY73]

Anyone know what these are generally rated in terms of db's?

[amberlynn6914]

@JustInn014 Oops! :()