Wilmington, Delaware tornado sirens activate during severe thunderstorm

A severe thunderstorm blew through Wilmington, Delaware in the afternoon of June 24, 2010. The city's Homeland Security-funded municipal siren system fired off not long after the storm hit the city. You can hear the thunder and rain over the siren...

I heard the siren from where I was working and immediately thought it was a tornado warning. I ran outside to listen to the voice announcement and heard to my relief that it was just a "severe lightning alert." Still pretty cool and not too common in Wilmington. I was able to get audio and a photo but no video because I don't have a memory card in my phone.

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• tornado
• alert
• municipal
• emergency
• warning
• siren
• severe
• thunderstorm
• wilmington
• delaware
• june24
• 2010

[bigwill1551]

Tornado

[warszawianka]

@bigwill1551 It wasn't a tornado that day. This was in August 2010. The sirens were activated for heavy lightning. Yet when a tornadic storm with heavy straight-line winds blew through Wilmington on August 10, 2011, the sirens were NOT activated - at least not that I heard.

[unknowsniper14]

dude i live in northest marland and there is 2 sirens in are town a sterling m10 and sth10 and are thes by any chance whallens o and at aberdean proving grounds i sean an aca moglar

[alessia1m]

WOW

[bobwal4life]

haaha i lived near there

[bulldozer950]

Nice Modulators