The phrase "an air raid warning" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to military or civil defense, particularly when alerting individuals about potential aerial attacks.
Example: "The sirens blared, signaling an air raid warning, and residents rushed to their shelters."
Alternatives: "a bombing alert" or "an aerial attack warning."
She had run out of the house, assuming the noise was an air raid warning.
They never heard an airplane or an air raid warning.
The witness, an activist working with an air raid warning service in opposition areas, said the jet struck at around 11 a.m. local time (0800 GMT) at the northern edge of the town, causing damage but no known casualties.
The large concave concrete dish acted as a primitive radar, amplifying engine sounds from distant Zeppelins so they could be heard by an operator, who would then send an air-raid warning inland by radio.
That European siren -- the one that sounds like an air-raid warning from a World War II movie -- had bled into the day, infecting each moment with the harsh reminder that writers are not safe here.
The professor became glum and absentminded, and their usual happy breakfast was ruine An air-raid warning saved the occasion--he had to get to his post.... View Article By Miranda Carter By Jia Tolentino By Doreen St. Félix By George Packer.
"If the North Koreans shoot missiles or cannons, the time it takes for the shells to fly to Seoul is about 2 to 6 minutes, so we should take shelter in less than 5 minutes after the air raid warning," an official at the country's alarm control station told Chosun Ilbo.
As the air raid warning sounded on 3 March 1943, Vera and her mother Lillian routinely gathered their bundles of bedding and made their way to Bethnal Green Tube, a brand new extension of the Central line that had yet to serve as a station |but for the previous two years had become a much-needed air raid shelter with 5,000 beds.
The communications room of Chugoku Military District Headquarters that was responsible for issuing and lifting air raid warnings was in a semi-basement in the castle.
In Lietuvos Zinios, Vytautas Landsbergis, Lithuania's first post-independence leader, says the "escalating war against Ukraine" reminded him of hearing air raid warnings on Radio Warsaw as a child at the start of World War Two.
Air raid warnings were sounded in Kent by siren-equipped "Paul Revere cars".
