There are 2 tests on Wednesday. Usually around noon and again around 6pm.
There should be a button to press to listen to the actual radio broadcast. On mine it is a 5" wide bar labeled "Weather Snooze". Try tapping that to make sure NOAA radio is being received. If not, maybe radio channel was changed. They are on 162.500 here.
There have been about 7 alerts in the past few days.
The radio will alert when it receives the FIPS code that is assigned to your county. Every county code is different, even though the radio is listening to the same radio channel. That's how we hear things for our area, and not for areas far away. Maybe the code was lost when batteries dies, and it was unplugged. Different generations of receivers maintain programming differently.
I have the Midland one. White. About $35. 6" x 6" Sorry, don't have model number available now. Works great. When it alerts, it plats for the duration, and goes back silent. The display shows the text for the type of the alert.
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