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1hbyankee
I live in Arkansas ,and bought a house with an underground storm shelter.  I guess I need a radio to keep me up on tornadoes. Who has them? What do you guys recommend? Will they work once you go underground in the shelter?   Thanks
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  • Brookwood
    I have an old police scanner that I bought from Radio Shack many years ago.  All I use it for is the NOAH weather reports that come out of a nearby town.   It works either AC or DC.  Never tried it in a bunker but it does work in my basement.
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  • jimdeere
    When you hear a train but the nearest tracks are 30 miles away...RUN!
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  • NeoBlackdog
    Brookwood said:
    I have an old police scanner that I bought from Radio Shack many years ago.  All I use it for is the NOAH weather reports that come out of a nearby town.   It works either AC or DC.  Never tried it in a bunker but it does work in my basement.
    I use a handheld marine radio the same way.  Works great.
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  • select-fire
    Had a radio shack forever. It has been thru some tornadoes and still works fine..even in a basement
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  • Grasshopper
     Set you phone for weather alerts, the rest is unneeded.
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  • spasmcreeksrun
    handheld with  regulated rechargable w extra battery...... we  are in tornado country here and this place had survived undamaged for about 115 years ...watching some weather come has been spooky...tornado closest has been 3/4 mile , 2 times and  down burst wind has damaged trees by house and shed without hurting the buildings...see if we can make it till we check out naturally.... ???? have seen some places around hit that nothing was left...wiped clean....i have had one center pivot irrigation system ruined
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  • 1hbyankee
    us55840 said:
    Don't have one.  IMO they are a waste of money since the weather report is wrong most of the time anyway.
    You will be more accurate by getting outside and looking at the sky.
     :) 

    Can't see much in the middle of the night in the pouring rain, and I don't want to be out there looking at the sky, and get run over by that train making the ROARING noise :o
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  • Ditch-Runner
     we have two that are just am-fm radio with a large push bar / button that will take it to the weather channel   you have to tune in the best  signal  for your location once set it will go to that station 
     you can also set your phone  to down load the national weather warning it will come on when a storm is active . some will come on even if your phone is off from I have read 
    my oldest son is a HAM operator and keeps up updated 99% of the time any way 
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  • charliemeyer007
    +1 for a HAM radio.  You don't need a license to listen.  Any AM radio that is on will hear lightning.  I love the tracking barometer function in my Casio Pathfinder - it can be set to alarm with rapid pressure changes - storms never sneak up on me.
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  • beneteau
    I think Midland is the most popular.  Used one for several years.
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  • Brookwood
    This will be no help for sure but I remember back in the late 70's Radio Shack sold what they marketed as a "Weather Cube".  Just a very small box that took batteries and all it did was report the weather.  

    You could do an internet search now days and probably be able to find one being sold in places like flea bay. Back in the day they were very inexpensive and always in great supply around Christmas for stocking stuffers.
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  • NeoBlackdog
    Right here in our back yard is a pretty decent selection...
    https://www.gunbroker.com/All/search?Keywords=weather%20radio
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  • bambihunter
    Here in central Oklahoma we have some of the best weather coverage in the world and also the highest weather Doppler density anywhere. So, we always know when "the big one" is going to happen usually a day or two in advance. Then, they can give nearly block by block (in the city) location of a tornado. It doesn't hurt that the National Weather Center is based in Norman OK, just south of OKC)
    I had an old handheld Cobra CB radio with weather radio function that I kept handy. As cell phones became more and more common, I still kept grabbing it as well. My logic was that if the cell tower got hit, and we got trapped, we'd still be able to talk somehow. But it finally quit and I haven't replaced it. We live out in the country and I believe have only a single tower that we connect to at home. It has been down a time or two in the 8+ years we've lived there. When it is down, we have zero bars and can't connect. That is such a great feeling! LOL I am in I.T. so being connected 24/7/365 gets old in a hurry.
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  • 76k20
    I have at least 6 handheld Cobra 45WX/WXST CB radios that have the NOAA weather radio channels.  Radios were used when  I was coyote hunting with the local groups, but now they are mostly used when there is severe weather in the area.  Battery powered is a good thing in my area as storms often mean the power is out. 
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  • Smitty500mag
    My scanner will pick up the NOAA weather report but I'd have to leave it on all the time to get the emergency warnings. So I have another one that comes on automatically when there's a tornado alert. 
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