Federal Signal Thunderbolt 1000T in ATTACK mode

Thunderbolt 1000T on Anderson (Wilson) school ground in Wichita KS - horn rotation set at 2 RPM. Originally intended to signal "the end of the world as we know it" from a Soviet nuclear missile launch during the cold war era, its mission now is to warn of a tornado in the area. Although the siren is Civil Defense yellow, I decided to tweak the video a bit by aging and going grayscale to give it a more ominous atomic age film look.
In elementary school when we would have an air raid drill, all the students would go to the school hallways and the teachers instructed us how to sit against the wall, bend over and put our heads between our legs with our hands on our heads. What they didn't tell us was that if this had been an actual attack, this served the purpose of kissing our butts goodbye.
The T-bolt in attack mode sounds eerie and considering it's original purpose it's fitting. Those too young to remember or didn't learn about it in school should Google "Cuban missile crisis" and see that those cold war years were some scary times indeed.
Digital audio recorder with Visivox mics and preamp used to simultaneously record audio.
Download the original stereo file:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?fgcb81omoug
Upload to your iPod or burn to CD and entertain the neighbors!

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• civil
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• wichita
• tornado

[TheOreoDude123]

those sirens scare me so much!

[Krauht88]

This is my new ringtone

[catman5169]

@Krauht88 Mine, too...at least no one else looks at their phone when mine rings. Reminds me of a George Carlin TV skit...what if phones had sirens instead of bells?

"QUICK!!!Catch it before it peaks!!!!

[form109]

it's almost 12 AM here in dallas,texas and they're running their sirens....i can hear the thunderbolts going off...man i tell you that is a fucking cool and bone chilling sound now this is what a siren should sound like...

[CleanAteist]

Wee need those to our borders here ind Denmark.

[Nellinator2311]

We have five of these here for our warning sirens... I still shudder every time I hear them go off. Even though they've only gone off once that I heard that wasn't a test (the other time, I was in school and couldn't hear them). Gotta love it, though.

[aracaen]

@cheetawolf well then bring back the threat of global nuclear war at a moment's notice and the dual tone sirens will be more common

[xxTatsuyaKun94xx]

im trying to make a replica to put it in my house roof only to make it sound in 21st december 2012 hahaha, it would be funny to see people's reaction

[cheetawolf]

I wish federal signal wasn't the crap it was today, making these crappy 2001 sirens...

[Pix2flixs]

It's a rare one depending on sound.Thats a rare one indeed.

[4136god]

We might need to put these back in action.