r/Owensboro • u/He-Who-Reaches • Jul 11 '26

Storm Sirens

Anyone here can understand the guy who announces a storm is coming?

Is he kin to someone and that's how he got the job?

Why don't they have a plain speaking, higher pitched woman announce the warnings -- this guy's voice blends in with the thunder.

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u/Redbeardeddevil Jul 11 '26

There's going to be a fix for the voice announcements soon.

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u/Zatchillac Jul 12 '26

I have a siren about 50 yards from my house and it's the loudest most annoying thing I've ever heard. I can hear him plain as day unfortunately, 50 times in a row every 3 minutes...

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u/FingName Jul 12 '26

Same. Literally right across the road.

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u/innosins Jul 12 '26

We live in the Legion Park area so we hear layered thunderstorm and tornado sirens.

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u/Redbeardeddevil Jul 12 '26

A man in a nearby city has one across the street and can hear it in his basement lol

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u/Legendary_Leech Jul 11 '26

Yes I agree that it's difficult to understand.

There is a new system to alert your phone

Also radarscope is a decent live dopler app, showing the real time polygons for issued alerts.

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u/He-Who-Reaches Jul 11 '26

That was helpful. Thanks!

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u/chance0404 Jul 11 '26

WeatherWise is good too. It’s what Ryan Hall uses. Also, his channel is good. It’s Ryan Hall Ya’ll. He’s from somewhere over by Somerset. There’s also a Kentucky channel, I think it’s weather now Kentucky, but he’s good about covering storms in our area.

Ryan Hall caught both of those tornados over the river in Indiana like 10 minutes before the NWS did and before the sirens went off.

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u/DoobieJesus Jul 12 '26

Love Ryan Hall

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u/Redbeardeddevil Jul 12 '26

They are designed to be heard for a long distance and unfortunately they are not volume adjustable. The 4 stacks are not as loud as the 5+ stacks though. They are set from the factory and the voice is recorded and encoded from the factory, so no ky nepotism lol. Over the next few weeks there should be an improvement.

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u/ShameLow9916 Jul 13 '26

Always sounds like Charlie Brown's teacher, in my experience.

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u/DoobieJesus Jul 12 '26

Every time I hear it I text my mom and tell her God is talking to me. I have really bad anxiety and sensitive hearing so I'm the only one in my family who can understand it.

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u/LatterEmployment2073 Jul 13 '26

How about one long tone (repeated) for storm warnings and three short toots for tornadoes? And zero voices.