04-20-11 Tornado warning in Louisville, KY near Waverly Hills

This is what it sounded like just inside my closed bedroom window at my apartment during the tornado warning. I left the TV on on purpose, but it turned out quite a bit louder than I would have liked. The closest siren heard is the Federal Signal 2001 at Eisenhower Elementary School. The Thunderbolt 1000T's at Stuart Middle School, Wilkerson Elementary School and Conway Middle School can also be heard. If you listen closely, you may be able to hear the low tone PRP VFD #1 TBolt in places. Sorry about the loud weather radio. I wasn't there to shut it up when it failed to receive the end of message code during the third outdoor warning siren activation. Listen to what the wind does to the sound of the 2001 during the second activation...Wicked!

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[ELTIGREROCKS10NEW]

Do you have a 12-262 (gray on the front), or a 12-521 (all black on the front).

[LouisvilleTorn8o]

@ELTIGREROCKS10NEW I'm totally blind, so I'll have to ask somebody which one it is. I have two of them. They're both almost identical, but one is very slightly different than the other, so I may in fact have both of those models. The softer one is set for all counties, and the louder one is just for my county, so I can tell whether a warning is for me before it even starts talking. The soft one is by the bed, so I can turn it off if I need to, while the loud one is always in Alert mode.

[LouisvilleTorn8o]

I also have three older Realistic weather radios, which my ex girlfriend says are loud enough to wake the dead.  I currently use one as a backup when the NWS is having problems with the EAS.

[mykidsarework]

6:04 Radar indicates a severe squall line.

[LouisvilleTorn8o]

@mykidsarework I think I've heard them say that before.

We just don't get this bad of weather around here very often. We've had 3 tornado warnings since October, and that's usually at least 3 times more than we'll get in a single year. Back in 2009, Louisville didn't have a single tornado warning.

[LouisvilleTorn8o]

@Alpine6227 Since I'm visually impaired, I can't read the model numbers on my two weather radios, but one is about 4 years old, and the other one is about 2. They both sound exactly the same, but I have one set to only go off for my county, and it is set much louder than the other one, so I can tell when a warning is coming out for my county. The other one is set for all counties.

[LouisvilleTorn8o]

@ChristineThePikachuA It was definitely a rough night. You guies across the river got it a lot worse than we did.  Clark, Scott, Dubois, and several other Indiana counties had confirmed tornados. New Albany in Floyd County got hammered with straight line winds.

[ChristineThePikachuA]

YAY! MY TORNADO WARNING GOT CANCELLED. F?CK. YES.