JTown and Fern Creek siren ambiance for 2011 statewide tornado drill 03-08-11, Louisville, KY

This was supposed to be a recording of just the sick Thunderbolt at Jeffersontown High School, but the cab driver I had that day couldn't speak much English, and I had trouble telling him where to go. We ended up on the left side of the school (the siren is on the right), so this ended up being an ambiance recording with the sick TBolt being the loudest siren. I was shocked by just how many sirens I heard from that location. Thunderbolts heard are the ones at JTown High School, Cochren Elementary School, Wheeler Elementary School, LG&E substation at Bardstown Road and Hurstborn Lane by the Captain D's, Bates Elementary School, and another Thunderbolt, location unknown. At least one 3T22 can be heard, probably from one of the JTown VFD's, and there are also at least a couple of 2001's in the mix. This is the first siren recording I did with my Audiotechnica AT8220 stereo mic. I had to use a high pass filter to filter out some of the wind noise.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Federal
• Signal
• Thunderbolt
• 1000T
• 3T22
• 2001
• sirens
• siren
• test
• Jeffersontown
• Fern
• Creek
• Louisville
• Kentucky

[LouisvilleTorn8o]

@carexpertandy I just reuploaded that recording a couple hours ago.

[carexpertandy]

@LouisvilleTorn8o Oh yeah now i remember your recording of it

[LouisvilleTorn8o]

@carexpertandy That would be the LG&E Tbolt, which is one of my favorite sirens in our system. If you ever come to Louisville, you'll have the most intense Thunderbolt experience you've ever had if you go to the Captain D's on Bardstown Rd and Hurstborn Ln on the second Tuesday of the month at noon...That thing litterally vibrates the concrete, and if the wind is out of the north, earplugs aren't enough. You're about 150 feet away, and you're almost on a level with the horn.

[carexpertandy]

Do you know where the 4/5 port one is?

[LouisvilleTorn8o]

@Siren1000T1 And the amazing thing was that that siren was over 2 miles away from where the recorder was...You can hear that thing clear down to Okolona, which is about 5 miles away, and you can probably hear it further than that.

I'll try and remember to reupload a recording of the LG&E Tbolt from up close within the next fiew days.

[Siren1000T1]

Above all the sirens I heard in this video, I just couldn't help it but I thought the LG&E Substation 1000T sounded the creepiest.