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The tornado entered LaSalle County, Illinois, from Putnam County, approximately 3 miles (5 km) northeast of the town of Standard, producing F0 intensity damage in a wooded area southwest of Peru. As the tornado continued northeast, F2 intensity damage was done to several homes in a subdivision near the intersection of East 250th and 2569th Roads.
[106] [107] An F2 tornado moved across Lawrence County, destroying a farm and mobile home. A man was injured by the tornado when a tractor lofted by the tornado fell onto his leg. [106] [107] May 9, 1995 – An F0 tornado briefly touched down near Alexander, causing no damage, [110] and another brief F0 damaged 2 homes in Morgan County.
A civil defense siren is a siren used to provide an emergency population warning to the general population of approaching danger. Initially designed to warn city dwellers of air raids (air-raid sirens) during World War II, they were later used to warn of nuclear attack and natural disasters, such as tornadoes (tornado sirens).
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The Modulators in Chicago's siren system formerly used to run on the Alternate Wail tone during tornado warnings in order to vary from emergency vehicle sirens. However, in O'Hare International Airport, instead of using the main UV Wail or Attack, they use an Eclipse 8 (possibly) sound card doing attack. Before that is the Westminster Chimes ...
Lightning flashes and thunder rumbles while ominous sirens echo during tornado storms in Illinois. Footage captures the tornado moving into the Rockford suburb of Belvidere on Friday (March 31 ...
It's been a little more than ten years since a tornado ripped through the northwest section of Pekin. According to the National Weather Service, the tornado crossed the Illinois River from Peoria ...
Federal Signal was founded in Chicago, Illinois, as the Federal Electric Company in 1901 by brothers John and James Gilchrist and partner John Goehst, manufacturing and selling store signs lit by incandescent lamps. By 1915, they began manufacturing and selling electrically operated mechanical sirens (such as the Q Siren and