WHAS Bullitt County Tornado Coverage - Multiple EBS Activations
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- This is recorded coverage of the Bullitt County Tornado from WHAS 84 in Louisville on 5/28/1996.
The EBS was activated a number of times over the course of the recording, and you will also notice the "Constant Alert Tone" - a beeping every 5 seconds or so in a couple parts of this. The Constant Alert Tone was used to warn listeners in this case of a tornado warning.
I love how WHAS made listeners aware that they're going to activate special weather receivers, unlike how nowadays the EAS usually just cuts in the broadcast with little to no fanfare/introduction.
I, love the old EBS System better than the one we got now, the EAS System.
There was some mad science behind that. Each radio station had to manually cascade record an EBS message after they got the incoming signal to do so (usually a flashing light near the audio equipment / mixer). Once that was done and ready - since they knew when they were going to hit play on the tape (immediately after recording the message from the primary warning station) - and with most state EBS plans, it was required to announce an EBS message preceding the actual message. Makes sense, right ;p ?
Of course, this depends on the era - the above was mostly true for the 1980s, while they were beginning to transition towards automated systems. Before these systems, messages came via Teletype... so once the message got finished printing (typed) at a speedy 60wpm and was handed the bulletin, they were required to announce that an EBS message was forthcoming, before reading the actual emergency message.
Fun times. Search for the EBS false alarm of 1971, for more madness behind the science ;p . I would not have wanted to have been listening to the radio or watching TV on that day ;o ~
Thats Because The EBS Was Manually Operated, While The EAS Is Automatic/Manual Depending On The Decoder.
@@hanyou23 Both theEBS/EAS, is run by the FCC!
@@markquiswest6607 Eh, generally, but each state also has their own plans, etc.
Recorded off-air since the static you hear in the background was the result of thunder and lightning. Such static in the background occurs when you listen to AM radio during a thunderstorm, unless you're listening to a 50,000-watt station within a couple of miles of its transmitter.
24:55 The end of the commercial's music bed matches with _Spoonman_ perfectly.
The constant alert tone played over the EBS attention signal several times too.
I live in Mount Washington and remember it like yesturday. Its amazing you can still see damage today if you look at the trees
In Fridley, MN, the trees along Highway 52 still looked twisted and short of foliage some 50 years later
Quite interesting how many times the EBS was activated. Even today, WHAS goes off very often for weather alerts with the EAS.
I lived in old Pioneer Village and my house was hit by the tornado. I don't ever want to do that again. You could feel the tornado picking my house up. It blew most of the electric poles down so it was several days before we got the power back on. We were very lucky that the tornado didn't kill anybody. Usually with F-4 tornadoes there are fatalities.
Is that near what they called Marysville when I was a kid?
Back when radio was awesome. I like some of the programming on WHAS still, like Dwight and Tony, but they don’t do this kind of coverage anymore. I miss the Constant Alert. What can you do though?
Within the final months of the Emergency Broadcast System’s existence.
EBS Activations (Sorry if I missed any)
1:18
4:05
10:38
15:06
25:03
26:55
31:25
33:49
Tallyock i
The first two EBS broadcast are severe thunderstorm warnings and number eight
3 through 7 are tornado warnings
This was actually during the EBS's last year until the EAS replaced it
Maybe the area you were in were testing a beta version of the EAS
+SuperDuperBuilderman123 Actually the EAS has been in use in some areas since early 1996
+RedSkyline Didn't the FCC grant a list of markets to try out a prototypical version of the EAS a year or two prior to phasing out the EBS?
Ah thanks for the clarification!
I wonder if such as any tests from those stations that did make use of the EAS those 2 years exist on footage. Would be neat to see from a transition point of view.
web.archive.org/web/19961019111325/www.broadcast.harris.com/sage/index.html
This is the 1996 website for the sage Eas endec
web.archive.org/web/19961019111636/www.broadcast.harris.com/sage/nr3.html
according to this article from February 1996 the first emergency alert system encoder/decoder to be produced was the sage endec which was also the first one be implemented which was done so at wvxu in Cincinnati on January 26 1996 one day after it debuted.
MY Grandma Dora Bailey called tornadoes "tar-nad-oes". She was from Carter County, which dosen't get many tornadoes .
I was sitting at the bar at Chi Chi's at Bashford manor drinking a margarita when this happened
i was not even born when this happend i was born on may8th 2001 but my friends mom said she was in the walmort in hillview when this happend
allie cat I didn't make things too easy on my parents i was born a week and a half after this tornado. thankfully for my parents it missed my house by about 1/4 mile
what does he mean by "to activate special weather receivers" is this going out to other stations or just WHAS
Matt Shroyer I learned from an EBS Training Video that special receivers are for Relay Stations & the CPCS-1 activates them. BTW CPCS-1 is short for Common Program Control Station.
Would those "special receivers" have once been where those triangular civil defense emblems they used to put on AM radios on two places on the dial scale?
Rebel9668 Speaking of those they were actually the Two Conelrad Frequencies which are 640 & 1240 on the AM Dial. Conelrad is actually the EBS's Predecessor & the EAS is the EBS's Successor.
Well the reason I asked is the fact that Ken Schultz was a weatherman a WHAS usually when ebs or eas is activated it’s someone from the National weather service or a very slow talking computer voice not someone from a local station
@@Rebel9668 No, they were units installed at radio/TV stations on the monitoring chain for EBS station. A radio station, say WXYZ, would monitor other ones in their areas for EBS activations, e.g. WZYX. If WZYX put the "attention signal" on the air and WXYZ was monitoring, their receiver would cue them to switch over to WZYX's feed to carry the EBS message, such as "this is meteorologist Bob Smith with this message from the National Weather Service, yada yada".
The EAS automated this entire process so those "special weather receivers" were replaced by "ENDECs" with the EAS.
Do they give tours of this station at all?
I think they did when the radio station was downtown with the TV on Chestnut st.. Now I don't believe so since moving to the Bishop Lane area
The Federal Communications Commission, they should still keep The EBS System, instead of The EAS System!
The EBS major flaw was that it takes too long to get a warning out. For something like a severe weather warning could take about 15 to 30 minutes from the time the station gets the warning to getting it on the air. The EAS however only takas a few minutes to get the warning on the air
That's makes a lot of sense! I had my brother had told me the other day, thanks for the info too! But, I still missed the old FCC EBS System!
Those were the days when WHAS-FM actually reported news and weather on the spot. Now, the only hot wind comes out of Rush Limbaugh.
Rush was an a hole who would vote for Satan if he was Republican