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Custom EAS/Tornado Sirens

By HoyBoi

In this guide, I will quickly summarize how to install custom audio EAS/Tornado Sirens for Storm Chasers, and how to hear them in game.

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Guide Index

Overview

Installing Your Custom Audio Files

Hearing Your Custom Files Ingame

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Installing Your Custom Audio Files

First, you will want to go to "Steam\steamapps\common\Storm Chasers\Mods\Audio"

(Note: The location of the Steam folder may be in different locations from computer to computer, depending on how your storage is configured. Please make sure to locate your Steam folder before saying that it don't exist, because it does if you have the game installed.)

Be sure to view ReadMe.txt file.

Then, proceed to create your file, if you desire. How you make the audio file is up to you! However, the audio file needs to be in .wav format in order to work! Keep that in mind.

It is also important to properly name your files.
For the EAS system, name them

EAS Warning - Wakota County.wav
EAS Warning - Byrun County.wav
EAS Warning - Corwan County.wav

(Be sure to name them for the respective towns.)

For the Tornado Siren, name that file: TornadoSiren.wav

Once you are done naming the files, simply drop them into the aforementioned folder.

And just like that, your custem EAS and Tornado Siren files are installed and ready to go!

Hearing Your Custom Files Ingame

In order to hear your custom sounds ingame, keep these facts in mind:

The tornado siren will only go off in Wakota when there is a tornado warning in the immediate area.

The EAS system will only go off when there is a tornado warning in the immediate vicinity of Wakota, Byrun, or Corwan. (This is why there are three EAS files named for each of these towns.)

In order to hear the EAS system go off, make sure that the FM radio is turned on and the volume turned up.

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carterburton5069 7 Apr @ 1:13pm

so how do you get custom tornado sirens?

Doge_Gamer 29 Dec, 2024 @ 10:25am

i think the sirens should be a lot longer because, the siren we're using now is a siren people use in various game and other id numbers, they should make it 15 seconds long and the ending were it gets lower pitch should also be 5 seconds or more. i hope you make this happen and keep working on this awesome beta game and i hope you guys keep this game running!

Tyrant 3 Nov, 2024 @ 8:24am

Here's a bit more explanation for adding custom audio.

The way to get the .WAV to work is to convert a different file with Audacity. If you don't have it you can get it here --> https://www.audacityteam.org/

Once you've uploaded your audio, export it as the following:
WAV (Microsoft) signed 16-bit PCM

Files exported like that (at least from my testing) will work in Storm Chasers.

As for the audio themselves, this part is a bit extra. The siren in Wakota County should be named exactly as it is in the guide (TornadoSiren.wav). However the EAS alarms work a little differently.

Each EAS has two versions. One Long and one Short (These can be toggled in the settings menu). for your custom EAS to work you have to name it after one of the versions.

As an example, let's say I want to make a custom Long EAS alert for Byrun County. I would name it like this:
Long EAS Warning - Byrun County.wav

Hope this clears things up for anyone running into issues.

pawplpc 2 Jun, 2024 @ 1:27pm

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Travis 26 Feb, 2024 @ 6:20pm

note to this message, you'll have to download audacity. i checked and it should be safe to use. if it does end up causing pop ups, then just go to your cookie settings in chrome and delete the cookies for the website the pop up ads say they're from.

Travis 26 Feb, 2024 @ 6:18pm

ill explain it. first find your video and copy the youtube link. Then find a TRUSTWORTHY website to convert it to a mp3 file. Once you get your mp3 file watch this youtube video to get the .wav version of your tornado siren sound. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEkB6eVhlqs .Once you get your .wav file, go to storm chasers on your steam games and right click, go down to manage, and go to the file named mods. click on it and go to audio, then click on audio and you should go to an empty file. drag your TornadoSiren.wav file to this and you'll be set to go.exit all the stuff and hop on storm chasers. if it doesn't work, try going back over the steps.make shure you dont make a file once you click the audio folder. your just going to drag and drop ur .wav file. hope this helped. : )

tiese 22 Oct, 2023 @ 6:07pm

what do i name the eas because the name doesnt work ive tried everything it could possibly be hellppppppp

tiese 22 Oct, 2023 @ 6:06pm

the guy who commented this kinda screwed every one up the tornado siren name has to be called "TornadoSiren" (not including quotes) it just has to be wav format. the eas i have no idea how to do that i have wav format and everything i have no idea how to do that

Peanut 4 Jul, 2023 @ 6:25pm

i did it but the siren still sounds default

cj_tornado 1 Jul, 2023 @ 7:41am

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