I live smack in the middle of tornado alley. For the past week we have gone under severe thunderstorm watches and warnings as well as tornado watches. I belong to a weather blog as well as being a stormchaser. I bought a Midland hoping to be able to warn my daughter of danger when I was at work. Since buying it four months ago ( I know it is programmed correctly) it has correctly gone off once out of about 12 alert times.According to my weather friends theirs sit silent as well. There are 15 of us on my weather blog who have Midlands and no ones has gone off, including today for the tornado watch over Kansas City. We can't all be programming incorrectly. Luckily, we have other venues for weather tracking so I try to have someone call my daughter to alert her as we can not trust the Midlands at all. Biggest waste of money ever!