[villages07]

Bargee...thanks for the followup. I'm just trying to understand how all this works and figure out if something didn't work right last Thursday.

I have an Oregon Scientific weather radio, so, our programming options may be different. It is SAME enabled. Here's a helpful link from the Natl Weather Service on what counties are serviced by what transmitters:

http://www.weather.gov/nwr/CntyCov/nwrFL.htm

Based on this listing, it looks to me like you are not tuned in to the Sumterville transmitter (it is on 162.500 which is channel 5 on my radio). My radio will only let me tune in to one frequency but I can enter up to 6 county codes for that transmitter. Sumterville tower covers Lake, Marion, and Sumter and provides good signal coverage for the Villages.

It looks like you got your Marion County warning from the Ocala transmitter.

So, back to my original concern.... the NWS issues a tornado watch for Marion county. This goes out to all its stations. Those stations that broadcast to/for Marion county should have sent out an alert for receivers programmed for Marion SAME code. You got an alert from the Ocala transmitter. I did not get one from the Sumterville transmitter. The warnings are for the entire county, not just a portion of it.

So, was there a problem with the Sumterville transmitter? I haven't heard back from the NWS on the voice message I left. I also called WVLG on Friday and talked to Karl the weather guy. He said he'd look into it.

Not panicking, not hiding under the covers...just trying to understand.