Whelen WPS 4004 Tornado Drill

Whelen WPS 4004 Tornado Drill | Dubuque, IA

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Recorded 3/27/2019
As part of Iowa's 2019 Severe Weather Awareness Week, on Wednesday, March 27th, 2019, a statewide tornado drill was held. The City of Dubuque participated in this drill by sounding the emergency warning sirens.
Here we have on film a full regular activation of this system. As noticed in the monthly test video, they start in Alert, and switch to Hi-Lo for the rest of the activation. I have no idea why they do this.
Included at the end is some bonus footage, or audio, of a WPS 2903 a whopping 7 miles away (the wind was blowing just right) sounding a 3 minute alert. Dubuque activated at about 10:07 instead of at 10:15, hence why I just barely caught the windup on camera. With the way the wind was blowing and everything, this thing sounded very buzzy in person, and I have to say, Hi-Lo on this controller is probably the punchiest Whelen signal I have ever heard.
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@elevatorssirensofmsp248 5 жыл бұрын

I like how it immediately transitions from alert to hi-lo.

@publicweather9633 5 жыл бұрын

They do Alert and Hi-lo because (and this is just something I've heard) originally, Dubuque's Whelens did the standard 3-minute Alert until the internal timer ran out. supposedly someone complained to the Dubuque EOC that they couldn't hear the Alert tone so Dubuque's own Racom, Inc, who is the local Whelen dealer, revised the encoder hot key setup to sound both Alert and Hi-lo.

@JMANWiSS 5 жыл бұрын

Interesting! Can I ask where you got that information from? I wasn't aware of this Racom either. I know ComElec, a local internet service provider with a Motorola radio division, services/installs whelens just across the border in Wisconsin, so I've never heard of Racom.

@publicweather9633 5 жыл бұрын

@@JMANWiSS In late summer/early fall, I inquired about the system through an email to the Dubuque Fire Protection District. They informed me they themselves do not control the system, it's the EOC's responsibility, but the FD can activate them as a backup if necessary if the primary point at the EOC fails.

@facingthewind 5 жыл бұрын

I love that Hi Lo

@arden56thenew 3 ай бұрын

Nice looking 4004!

@WheeloveFireAlarms 5 жыл бұрын

Nice! The HI-LO sounds great!

@CycloneJoey518 5 жыл бұрын

That's the loudest whelen I have ever heard

@SirenArchives 2 жыл бұрын

That's a 465 Hz Digital ESC-864 right there.

@Alligator667 2 жыл бұрын

It is gonna happen to my state Dubuque Iowa!

@SouthGeorgiaSirens 5 жыл бұрын

Doesn't even wind down it just goes straight to Hi-Lo

@AsianSodaWx 5 жыл бұрын

Nice works

@BellyLover06 5 жыл бұрын

Sounded like a 2nd one started up not long after this one did.

@JMANWiSS 5 жыл бұрын

Yep, you can hear a couple starting up after this.

@WhelenVortex730 2 жыл бұрын

My favorit siren

@bradsullivan2454 5 жыл бұрын

I was at work i got of at 1000 am when i heard them go off

@rockstar5919 5 жыл бұрын

Man I was there once and the sirens went off

@jackson7603 5 жыл бұрын

Lucky I wish ours moved

@TheSirenGeek 5 жыл бұрын

Hot content

@rockstar5919 5 жыл бұрын

Ps are you coming back to Wisconsin for another tornado awareness week in April 12 if so please do Potosi wi I wanna here the one down town in 3 minutes

@rockstar5919 5 жыл бұрын

I always hear the one in Tennyson WI

@JMANWiSS 5 жыл бұрын

The wisconsin Drill is April 11th this year. I already have plans elsewhere in the county.

@rockstar5919 5 жыл бұрын

Wisconsin Sirens & Signals oh ok then

@rockstar5919 5 жыл бұрын

Next year?

@JMANWiSS 5 жыл бұрын

Why don't you go record it? If you live there, go out and record the 6:45pm drill

@iangilldjsuperdude 4 жыл бұрын

Looks more like a Whelen Vortex

@Dogappel 4 жыл бұрын

Yep, it is because the channel owner is so dumb THIS IS A VORTEX IT DOES NOT HAVE SIDE PANELS

@coltenfritz413 3 жыл бұрын

@@Dogappel its a WPS-4004. The older 4004s with the embossed sides were discontinued in 1996. There are also no Vortexes in Dubuque, in 1998 the city purchased all WPS-4004 sirens from Fesler's Inc.

@JMANWiSS 3 жыл бұрын

Dubuques whelens do voice. Vortexes cannot do voice. The side panels are relative to the time manufactured, the Vortex equivalent of that era 4004 head was the 404R.

@rockstar5919 4 жыл бұрын

It sounds like a 435hz in the backroud

@rockstar5919 4 жыл бұрын

It is a 435hz in the back round I recognize the hi low sound