KCTV5 First Warn 5 Weather

Gray Television, Inc.

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About this app

The KCTV5 First Warn 5 Weather includes:

• Access to station content specifically for our mobile users
• 250 meter radar, the highest resolution available
• High resolution satellite cloud imagery
• Future radar to see where severe weather is headed
• Current weather updated multiple times per hour
• Ability to add and save your favorite locations
• Daily and Hourly forecasts updated hourly from our computer models
• A fully integrated GPS for current location awareness
• Opt-in push alerts to keep you safe in severe weather
• Severe weather alerts from the National Weather Service

Ratings and reviews

Good for a general idea of what's going on with the weather right at that instant (though it's not even accurate for that a lot of the time). OK for giving a heads up to severe weather watches, but the lag time in alerting to warnings leaves a lot to be desired. I highly suggest in severe weather instances, do NOT use this app as your sole means of getting alerts! You can't rely on the radar either. It's not necessarily accurate and often will be quite a bit behind what's actually happening.

I've been using this app platform for years, it is hit or miss on notifications. My husband and I both downloaded it, enabled notifications, didn't change anything. His got the Tornado Warning, my did not. Mine got the Flood warning, his did not. Overlays and information on the radar us helpful but only certain Alerts remain pinned to the home page. So the alerts and notifications need some work the inherent radar and forecast options work well.

The app is good, pretty helpful. Fairly common for videos to be a little glitchy and also really common for me to get 3-5 notifications for the same alert/video even if I have already watched it which is really annoying and makes me want to turn off notifications as a whole and that basically defeats the entire purpose of me having this app installed. For example I recently watched the weather alert from SIX HOURS AGO and have since received 3 different notifications to watch it again. Why?