Storm Shield

The E.W. Scripps Company

In-app purchases

About this app

Severe weather alerts for your exact location. Storm Shield gives you storm-based alerts for tornado, hurricane, flood, thunderstorm, winter storms and other life-threatening weather events via voice and push notification.

Storm-based alerts help reduce false alarms by alerting you to severe weather based on your exact location within a county. County-based alerts can result in false alarms, warning you when your location in the county is not within the threatened area.

These features come with your app download:

Benefits:
• Get voice alerts just like a NOAA weather radio via push notification anywhere in the United States.
• Hi-Def radar map is your home screen so you can quickly see what's going on at your locations.
• View current conditions, hourly and daily forecasts.
• Save additional locations to ensure family members stay safe.

View NOAA severe weather alerts on the map to see where dangerous weather is happening:
• Tap alerts to view info
• Show multiple severe weather layers on the map at the same time
• Flood watches & warnings
• Tornadoes & Thunderstorms
• Hurricane & Tropical Storm forecast tracks
• Winter storms
• Marine & Coastal alerts
• Radar & Clouds
• Wind Speed
• Snow Fall
• Road Weather


Enhance your app with auto-renewing subscriptions:

• Buy Premium Weather ($0.99 per month) to unlock these 3 features:
1) Future Radar - See forecasted radar imagery.
2) Future Temperature Map - See forecasted temperature map.
3) Storm Tracks - See how fast storms are moving and where in the next few minutes.

• Buy Lightning ($0.99 per month) to unlock these 2 features:

1) Get push notifications for lightning strikes near your locations.
2) See lightning on the map within 100 miles of a selected location.

Note:
• Payment will be charged to your Google Play Account at confirmation of your purchase.
• Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off before the end of the current period.
• Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the Google Play Store menu and selecting 'Subscriptions' after purchase.
• After a free trial ends (if offered), your subscription will automatically convert to a paid subscription. You may cancel your subscription before your free trial is up to avoid being charged.
• Privacy Policy: https://www.stormshieldapp.com/privacy_stormshield_wxs.html
• Terms of Use: https://www.stormshieldapp.com/terms_stormshield_wxs.html

Storm Shield is made possible by The E.W. Scripps Company.

View help and tips at support.stormshieldapp.com.

Ratings and reviews

Current temperature, accurate radar, and push notifications is all you get (for more conditions tap on the location icon, but still no AQI). I have done a count of how many different alerts and it's 166 with 10 non-weather (for example 911 outage, network message, and child abduction) but still very important alerts. So a great push notification and radar companion to go alongside any other weather app or apps you may or may not choose. The lettering on the map is also unreadable.

This used to be one of the best radar apps but has since been surpassed by many other superior options. The company appears to have abandoned this one with no recent updates. It's still decent if you just want to have a quick glance at the radar but there are issues. For example the radar does not automatically update, you have to completely close the app and reopen it to get the most recent radar data. You cant read details from the NWS warnings unless they are for your location.

Its good but needs a few more features. First, there should be an option to disable saved location markers on the map since it takes up all of the radar. The reason why I have 100+ saved locations since I am a weather forecaster. Second, the precipitation radar only covers North America, Europe, and Asia rather than the whole globe. Thirdly, when opening the current forecast for the city it only gives you a small menu rather than a big menu. UV, Air Quality, Covid, and storm reports are missing.

What's new

• Due to required code library changes by Google and the Android operating system, some older Android devices may not be able to install this version 4.8.1 app update.
• Under-the-hood maintenance items are included in this release.