Could a simple weather radio have prevented these deaths?
Probably not. From this comment:
"They were under the tables and stuff and on their knees, but they had no chance."I infer that the fatalities were in the group already in shelter, not the group in the woods. Had they had extra warning - and I've seen no reports of that there was an earlier radio warning - they wouldn't have gone anywhere else. They heard a tornado siren after sheltering but before the tornado struck.
It doesn't minimize the importance of having a cheap weather alert radio at such a camp, but it appears in this case it was not a contributing factor: the tornado directly struck and took out the shelter.