Stuff We Want: Midland WR120B NOAA Weather Radio, the Roommate Who Yells "Tornado Warning"

Searches for "tornado warning" are climbing this morning, with people looking up warnings in Georgia and checking the weather near them. If a warning covers you right now, skip this post and follow your local officials. If not, it's a good moment to set up the thing that wakes you up next time.

Our pick is the Midland WR120B, a NOAA emergency weather radio. It's not a radio you listen to for fun. It's the one that stays quiet on the shelf and then sounds off when the National Weather Service issues a warning.

The clever part is S.A.M.E. (Specific Area Message Encoding). You enter the code for your county, so it goes off when your area is threatened instead of every county in the broadcast range. Midland says you can program up to 25 counties, which covers home, work, and the in-laws two counties over.

Midland lists it as covering over 60 kinds of weather hazards and emergencies, with color-coded indicators that show the type of warning and how serious it is. It also has an override that switches over automatically to warn you, so you don't have to remember to turn it on.

It also has a continuous backlight option for the LCD, so you can read it at 3 AM without hunting for your glasses. The listing shows both corded and battery power.

The best part is that your phone can be on silent, face down, at 4% battery, and this thing still does its job.

Who it's for: anyone in tornado, hurricane, or flash-flood country, heavy sleepers, and the friend whose phone is always on Do Not Disturb.

Skip it if you want a hand-crank radio with a flashlight for a go-bag, or you already have a weather radio programmed for your county.

The verdict: hand-picked for storm season. Plug it in, set your county, and let it be the one that stays awake.

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