Yeah definitely. Especially one with the NOAA weather alert stations like this one. You can just tune in to that and get regular updates about the weather situation.

If you happen to lose yours, like I did (It's in the basement somewhere, but I should probably just buy another one at this point), as long as your internet is still up and running you can stream from a laptop, which I've done a few times:

https://www.weatherusa.net/radio