Just pulled a tough hill, towing my about 17k 5ver, pushing it hard to get past a wide load truck and the turbo went to about 20,000 or so... pretty loud wind up noise that is new to me. Wondered if ...
I'm leaning towards the fan kicking in. Mine has done it and it sounds like a jet taking off. if you were pulling a long hill, my guess is the engine finally got warm enough to need it. What was your engine temp?