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Tornado warning & sirens at school - 2/27/23

SirenDude1003

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Interestingly, in all of my 13 years in school, this was the very first time I’ve been at school during a tornado warning, just a few months before graduation.

As I was sitting down in the office to start sorting out passes for students (for first hour I deliver passes to students around the school), a counselor walked up and mentioned that the sirens were going off and that we should get to shelter. Instinctively, i grabbed by phone, hit record, and ran outside. The school bell hadn’t even rung yet since we start at 10 on Mondays, so kids were still arriving at school, so i blended in with the arriving crowd to avoid being yelled at. After a couple minutes I went back in and took shelter with everyone else in the office.

20 Comments

@brandon_dammers 3 years ago

My boy went out of his school to make content for us. That's dedication. Stay safe my friend!

@Simplex2 3 years ago

Now that’s scary. Imagine waking up to this at 3AM.

@thatoneguy42145 3 years ago

He was sprinting to get that siren on camera that’s dedication! Now I know if I hear this at 8am on a clear day the world is ending 😅

@Supersonic_Sirens_TX 3 years ago

That cyclone packs one big punch

@evangouldtransit 3 years ago

the school's warning sounds like a recording of a Model 5 lmaoo

@borkluchtalarm 3 years ago

ACA Cyclone.

@J19_vlogger74 3 years ago

I find it funny that your school plays a tornado siren on the intercom.

@Brady_Farrar 11 months ago (edited)

The cyclone tornado siren continuously going off sounds like your school fire alarms that were going off in your fire drill videos, Sirendude1003.

@Pou_Pet 1 month ago

In mid-March of this year (2026), my school had to end early because of a Tornado Watch. Luckily, no tornado happened since I didn’t get a Tornado Warning. 😅

@SirensAndAlarmsOfNorthernIL 3 years ago

Oh that cyclone tho! Man that is one hell of an ambience. With the school tornado alert system it is creepy af

@GTAMarioEASChaser 9 months ago (edited)

This happened at my school back in May of 2024, I was in my language arts class, and there was hail banging against the window and the roof of my school, and that's when the superintendent said over the intercom "Attention all students, we are currently under a tornado warning, stay in class rooms do not panic" and 15 minutes after he said that, the sirens started going off and my whole class got up and quickly walked down the hallway, my sister hates these kinds of storms, we went down to the locker rooms and ducked our heads down. There was a confirmed tornado on the east side of my town Coulterville IL, but before it could hit my town, the tornado died out, but somehow a medium shard of glass penetrated my arm and I didn't feel it, and I didn't notice it untill we got back in the classroom, my teacher looked at me in horror and quickly ran up to me and she said I was bleeding and I looked down at my arm gasped, my teacher put her hand on my back to comfort me from crying, the glass piece was half the size of my finger, so not that big, my teacher told me to look the other way because she was getting ready to pull it out, and she did slowly and then cleaned the wound and wrapped it in gauze and she got a sling for me and school waset out early for the tornado incident

@dale4231 3 years ago

Our alarm message only repeats twice, interesting how yours continues like that!

@jakerehhee3844 3 years ago (edited)

Siren name: ACA P50 (the second loudest tornado siren in the world)

Edit: whoops it’s a cyclone not a p50

@mattmakesmachines 3 years ago

I love the sound of ACA Cyclone sirens

I also laugh at the fact that your school plays STH-10 audio

@lotusbandicoot 3 years ago

Took me until the end of my sophomore year of HS to have to take cover for a warning... it was a super sunny day and we were outside for PE... not much later it was dark out, the siren across the street started going off, and we had to take cover in the locker rooms. I can't say being in the locker rooms with a bunch of high school dudes goofing off while the lights flickered was much fun in the moment, but at 28, it's just a funny memory now

@xaptus 3 years ago

Awesome sounding cyclone

@Thomas.Weezer 3 years ago

I remember in elementary school tornado drills were conducted during the statewide (Ohio) tornado drill and siren test. There was a Federal Signal EOWS 612 near the school so we heard the 🌪🔈 do the alert and the all-clear (hi-lo) tones.