That's the way it supposed to be setup. Why get awakened in the middle of the night for a storm a county or two away when it might fizzle before it gets to you.
Get a nice one that you can program the county and the hazard. The KCCI/HyVee radios don't do that. You can program the county but not the watch or warning type. This really minimizes false alarms. If you live on the top of a hill and don't care about Flash Flood Warnings, turn them off. Don't want to be woken up by a Severe Thunderstorm Watch at 300am. Off again. The only things you can't turn off are Tornado Watches and Warnings.
Can you program it to ignore Amber alerts too ? Getting woken up at 2 am for an Amber alert for Sioux City, IA isn't very usefull in Des Moines...
Can you program it to ignore Amber alerts too ? Getting woken up at 2 am for an Amber alert for Sioux City, IA isn't very usefull in Des Moines...
I think so. Just check to make sure it's a programmable SAME radio rather than just a SAME radio. There are dozens of EAS codes but I think the Tornado ones are they only ones that you can't turn off. A Google search before buying any particular model would be best. The Amber Alert EAS code is CAE, I think anyways.
I'm not going to complain for them issuing updates periodically, that doesn't bother me. When the stations decide to completely cut to weather broadcasting for large chunks of time(couple weeks back for a nice 48 min chunk).....that pisses me off.
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