Weather radio - finding correct channel?

Question

recently bought a weather radio - i live in a county that is huge - it contains 30 cities easy - so i get weather warnings for areas 50 or 60 miles - can anyone tell me how i go about finding a channel in my area or city - so i dont get warnings to take cover until the storm or tornado actually approaches my area - like 10 - 15 miles -

Answer 1

That is a legitimate complaint. With a large county even Weather Radios with SAME technology often cause such an abundant number of alerts that many people shut them off completely.  

It will not be too many years and the weather radios will have GPS encoding where if they will alert only if you are in or very close to the warning polygon the Weather Service now use instead of a counties or portion of a county. That will cut down the number of false alerts so many (and rightfully so) complain about.  

They are getting better on those weather radio systems but still not perfect. I would wait til those come out. The last estimate I heard was in two or three years which knowing the government...means ten years.

Answer 2

Well, thats what warnings are. They warn you way ahead of time just incase you can get into your boundry on time. Theirs no such thing as a last-minute warning. Obviously thats against the law. 10-15 miles isnt as long as you think. Its always good to know about warnings ahead of time.

Answer 3

just scan through the channells

Answer 4

Ok if it has an auto ch. tuning use that.  If not visit this site.  http://www.nws.noaa.gov/nwr/nwrbro.htm

Also if you want to have warnings for just your county if you have a S.A.M.E receiver you can program you county code in.  To do that visit this site http://www.nws.noaa.gov/nwr/nwrsame.htm