Matt Lehenbauer, Woodward's emergency management director, said the sirens sounded three minutes before the tornadoes struck.
In a nearby classroom, Alexis Wasik, 8, began putting it all together when she heard the sirens outside.
This steady stream lasted 5 or 6 minutes before the sirens went off, indicating a tornado on the ground.
Dr Stuart Kane, a GP in Downpatrick, rushed to the crash site after hearing the sirens of the ambulances.
Their wailing mingled with the sirens of ambulances scurrying back and forth along the route to pick up the dozens who fainted.
Skid Row is a dumping ground for inmates released from the nearby county jail, and it's a place where the sirens never stop screaming.
Will the sirens of the past, looking backward, pull the company into gladiator battles with old foes trying to hold share in narrowing, declining markets?
All I'd say is, if you're a journalist planning to interview The Sound Of The Sirens, clear your diary - you may be some time!
If you aren't wearing a green blazer, the histrionics are mostly amusing, as are the sirens howling from an event that prides itself on intense institutional control.
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"We could hear all the sirens and you could smell the smoke as the train went past the site, " he said in a submission to CNN's iReport.
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In ancient Greek mythology, the Sirens were beautiful sea-maidens, known for chanting sweet melodies to lure hapless sailors into dangerous waters, only to face their demise amongst the jagged rocks.
It's a way of binding ourselves, much as, in The Odyssey, Odysseus asks his men to lash him to the mast so he can guide the ship past the Sirens.
When the sirens sounded in the evening of 14 November we decided to stay indoors under the stairs, having spent many nights in the Anderson shelter in the garden with nothing much happening.
That's not the sirens' fault -- a mind-numbingly loud "whoop whoop" really doesn't have the bandwidth to reveal that kind of information to the human ear -- but now that SMS-capable phones are ubiquitous, it's time to smarten things up just a tad.
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The screaming of sirens, the announcements to take cover, the house-to-house searches: all of it inside a secured military base in the state of Texas.
After the warning sirens went off Wednesday night, Gary Buneta decided to walk to the back of his house, where he thought he would be safe, but the tornado beat him to it.
So until then, when you hear the tornado sirens or tornado warning, take cover immediately.
But the concern shown by the balloon pilot and the blaring sirens from emergency vehicles told Michel that something was wrong.
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We should close our ears to the song of the marketing Sirens.
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"This could be Trayvon, " the hoodie-clad mother said, nodding to her son as the wail of police sirens tore through the night air.
Suddenly, a convoy of four-wheel-drive vehicles - the kind used by Iraqi officials - swerves madly through the traffic, sirens blaring, and a voice from a loudspeaker telling drivers to get out of the way.
By April 7th, when most of its population had fled, L'Aquila was like a city that had been extensively shelled: a ghost town in which almost the only sounds were of house alarms, ambulance sirens and the earth-movers of rescue workers.
But, far away from the wail of sirens, there is so much hurting and loneliness that surrounds us in this world, so much need and hunger and solitary despair.
In Ireland and the Netherlands, on the other hand, warning sirens should have been blaring as the ratio has hit new highs.
It woke up one morning and walked the kids to school, and suddenly the streets were full of sirens and there was fire in the sky.
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The odd-shaped boxes on down-town buildings that remind you of air-raid sirens are the antennas.
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