It seems that consumer grade SAME weather radios haven't advanced much in the past few years. They still have crappy displays and poor reception on FM and AM stations.
I'd like to find one with good reception on all bands as well as a decent size display that can easily be read from an angle.
I picked up one of these some years ago and the model is still manufactured: »midlandusa.com/weather-r ··· /wr-300/ The menu/setup procedure is not the most intuitive but I just keep the user manual handy for when I need to make any programming changes. I like it. J
It has an external antenna jack (RCA Phone Jack) and I just fabricated a 1/4 wave long wire antenna and it works fine. You'd want to get an external antenna that you can run a coax cable to. Certainly an option. I think ANY weather radio would suffer from the same signal issues inside a thick concrete building.