[American Constitutionalist]

" Worse than Katrina, in ONE small town, in 30 minutes, no way to warn the sleeping victims. "

That's what is scary about a tornado.... unless your watching a local news radar for the weather, you or your family could be asleep and one of them drops out of the sky, especially one that drops out of the sky at night.

[ConservativeMind]

This is what you need, then:

http://www.amazon.com/Sima-WX-200-Emergency-Alert-Radio/dp/B001JVPFV8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1306373248&sr=8-1

You can have it sound the alarm if a tornado warning is only valid for 1/9th of your county, and not be woke up for all the other areas in the county, nor the other counties around you. We have this and it is excellent. Get rechargeables and it will slowly keep them charged so it will always work when the power goes out.