Whelen Vortex R4 | Alert, Fast Wail, Airhorn and silent test | Lakeville, Ohio 9/7/24

Today as I went to Lakeville to record the tornado siren it was about 5 minutes after 11:00 the siren did not go off at 11 o’clock so then I called the sheriffs office and they set it off at 11:09


[@CentralOHSirens]

Great looking video! I absolutely love how that Attack sounds, I'm gonna have to come to this one soon.

[@gabrieldetwiler7078]

A 450hz! Nice find

[@CarmenPalermoStorms]

One for my favorite types of sirens

[@WhelenVortexGuy09]

I Love Whelens that do wail on 450Hz

[@CarmenPalermoStorms]

@@WhelenVortexGuy09 can you tell a difference in tone between the regular r-4 and the r-4 finback?

[@WhelenVortexGuy09]

@@CarmenPalermoStorms yes, Whelen vortexFinback are l controlled by a Whelen ESC digital 864 (465Hz) and regular vortexes are controlled by all sorts Whelen control boxes. But this Whelen In the video is a 450Hz and has a esc2020 control box

[@CarmenPalermoStorms]

@@WhelenVortexGuy09 interesting, I’ll have to go out and observe them again