An alert only reaches you if WxAlerts knows where to watch. A saved place is a location on your account, such as your house, a job site or your parents’ address, and every alert rule hangs off one. There is no radius to set: an alert covers a place when the polygon the forecast office drew contains it.
This section covers adding places, what a rule can watch, the channels an alert can reach you on, and how an alert gets from the National Weather Service to you.