Apropos of nothing, the best "weather alert" radio out there is an Amazon echo device, you get timely and accurate weather alerts via Alexa.
The NOAA weather alert system leaves a lot to be desired, I've had one of my scanners in weather alert mode and SAME codes for my county programmed and gotten an alert and thought "gee, would have been useful to get that alert, you know, before the storm passed through, not 20 minutes after it actually did.