We have a weather radio that we turn on if it starts looking bad, but whats the point if we already know its looking bad. Plus, it starts to sound alarm every time a new warning is issued, so that means its going off every 2 minutes, annoying, we turn it off and turn on the local TV channel that has Doppler radar if we need to know if somethings headed our way. If we are away from home, well, we use the old fashioned way.