[billethkid]

Do you have one?
Effective?
Make/model?
We have a Midland...10-ish years old....set for Sumter County notifications....not a peep or beep last night!
Settings are correct?!
Shopping.

[villagetinker]

Ours, also a 10 year old Midland, went off 2 or 3 times last night into this morning, I am guessing you have a setting wrong. Also, this radio typically goes off for the weekly test.

[DonH57]

I've never owned one but I use the Sumter County Sheriff's Office App on my phone for weather and other alerts and notifications.

[Pinball wizard]

I received multiple phone call warning about the storm as well as txt messages. Also had messages from Alexa.

[villagetinker]

Weather radio just went off 11:50 am with a real flood warning.

[Maker]

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.

[Jameson]

I have a Midland WR400. About $75. Alerts are programmable by watches and warnings. I found some of the default alerts had it going off with what I consider minor alerts like stream flooding. I like it with one major issue. The volume of the audible alert cannot be turned down and it is extremely loud. Ridiculously loud in my opinion. I haven't found any hacks to adjust it other than cover the radio with something to soften the noise. The volume of the voice announcements is adjustable like any radio.

[Professor]

Originally Posted by Maker

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.

This was very helpful. Thanks.

[jarodrig]

Originally Posted by billethkid

Do you have one?
Effective?
Make/model?
We have a Midland...10-ish years old....set for Sumter County notifications....not a peep or beep last night!
Settings are correct?!
Shopping.

I also have a Midland which is 10 + years old and works well . It went off 3 , maybe 4 times the night of the storm .

Take your radio to any fire station and they will properly program it for you.

[Karmanng]

Originally Posted by villagetinker

Ours, also a 10 year old Midland, went off 2 or 3 times last night into this morning, I am guessing you have a setting wrong. Also, this radio typically goes off for the weekly test.

I have a Midland too but how do I correctly set it? It did go off 3 times in the last 2 days thou plus I do get weekly tests

[Karmanng]

Originally Posted by DonH57

I've never owned one but I use the Sumter County Sheriff's Office App on my phone for weather and other alerts and notifications.

thanks did not know we had a app for our county

[jarodrig]

Originally Posted by Karmanng

I have a Midland too but how do I correctly set it? It did go off 3 times in the last 2 days thou plus I do get weekly tests

Owner Manual (download it if you don’t have it)

YouTube

Take it to your nearest firehouse where they will be happy to make sure it’s set up properly for this geographical area….

[TVTVTV]

I have an older Midland weather radio. Keep it in the bedroom for unforseen verbal night announcements mainly for tornado warnings. One of the first things I did when moving here was to reprogram the alerts I wanted (disable or enable each on the Midland). FL weather is different than northern weather. I do not want to be woken up repeatedly for watches. I tried that and got too many sleep interruptions. Hurricane watches and warnings take days to develop, so you have time to prepare. However, tornado warnings at night are unseen. Know your plan before you get an alert - what would you do? Stay in bed or go to the interior of your home? A nighttime tornado damaged hundreds of homes in TV in 2007. This week I decided to double check my tornado warning alert to make sure it was still "enabled," and it was gone from the alphabetical event list! Shocked, I Googled it, and it's been changed so it is not an option- warnings are required, which is how it should be. My Midland had it when we moved here, so I have no idea why it is no longer an option on mine - it's not like there was a software update. Also, there are unique S A.M.E. or FIPS codes for Lake, Marion, and Sumter counties, but they are on the same frequency. Lastly, make sure any weather radio you buy also has battery backup, and change these batteries annually.

[scubawva]

No need. Set your smartphone to receive alerts.

[CarlR33]

Originally Posted by TVTVTV

I have an older Midland weather radio. Keep it in the bedroom for unforseen verbal night announcements mainly for tornado warnings. One of the first things I did when moving here was to reprogram the alerts I wanted (disable or enable each on the Midland). FL weather is different than northern weather. I do not want to be woken up repeatedly for watches. I tried that and got too many sleep interruptions. Hurricane watches and warnings take days to develop, so you have time to prepare. However, tornado warnings at night are unseen. Know your plan before you get an alert - what would you do? Stay in bed or go to the interior of your home? A nighttime tornado damaged hundreds of homes in TV in 2007. This week I decided to double check my tornado warning alert to make sure it was still "enabled," and it was gone from the alphabetical event list! Shocked, I Googled it, and it's been changed so it is not an option- warnings are required, which is how it should be. My Midland had it when we moved here, so I have no idea why it is no longer an option on mine - it's not like there was a software update. Also, there are unique S A.M.E. or FIPS codes for Lake, Marion, and Sumter counties, but they are on the same frequency. Lastly, make sure any weather radio you buy also has battery backup, and change these batteries annually.

A weather radio should not be your only one source you should have another backup or even a third. You should take full advantage of your smart phone assuming you and most have one anyhow.