Simple Weather Alert
This app runs in the background and monitors the official National Weather Service (NWS) alerts for your area. New alerts will appear on the status bar, and by selecting it, you can read the details.
You can also choose how urgent of a notification to get, based on the NWS Severity. An Extreme alert coming through? Then you'd probably like vibrate, lights AND bell for that! But a simple Wind Warning? Probably not as much. You can choose the level of response in the preferences.
Simple Weather Alert allows you to monitor one location for NWS alerts. If you want to monitor more locations (including locations that move with you), then consider purchasing Pro Weather Alert.
Simple Weather Alert Features:+ Monitor NWS weather alerts for your area+ Choose how to be notified (lights, bell, vibrate)+ Modify notification based on NWS severity (go crazy for extreme alerts, such as Tornado Warning)+ Alerts keep updated automatically as long as you have connectivity+ Browse the alert list when there are multiple alerts, and read the details and instructions for the 2 MOST SEVERE alerts, as well as any EXTREME alerts.+ An app widget added to your home screen allows for easy on/off toggling of lights, vibrate and sound settings. The alerts will still be checked and put on your status bar though, so you can keep an eye on it during class or church, without it causing distraction.+ Key words and phrases list. Create a list of words or phrases, and when an alert is received that contains those words or phrases, it will be marked in the alerts list with an icon, and the phrases will be highlighted when you read the alert details.+ Email an alert to friends or send via text message (requires Contacts List permission), so they can be warned as well.+ Post an alert on Facebook or your Twitter feed, to get the word out fast.+ Input your location by city, county, zip code, or let the app find your phone location by GPS or network location providers.
You can view the app manual here:http://android.globalcanofworms.com/guides/swa_pwa/Simple_Pro_Weather_Alert_Manual.html
An explanation of permissions: The SMS and Contacts List permission are required so you can send an alert to someone via text message. The contacts list permission allows for easier selecting of the number.
IMPORTANT: While we take all possible precautions to make sure this app will get you critical alerts on time, the unforseen can still occur, as well as simple cell/network outages. Thus, we do not recommend that you ever rely on this app ALONE for tornado warnings. Please use this app along with other methods to ensure you are alerted in time.
NOTE: If you are certain the app is not sending you the alerts it should, please use Menu:Troubleshooting to send us debug info about it so we can work to resolve it quickly.
If you run into any other issues with this app or have questions, send us a note in the Menu:Troubleshooting screen. Also, visit the developers blog on our website for a list of current issues we are addressing.Thank you!
Category : Weather
Reviews (27)
ABANDONED BY DEVELOPERS. This used to be a five star app, but every so many hours I have to troubleshoot it and keep unchecking and rechecking the little box with the ignore network state in order for the alert service to go back up from being disabled. This makes me miss alerts which can be very frustrating please fix this application.
Not sure how it will work on my new phone but a few months ago this app helped me stay informed while we had flooding in Upper Michigan like how you can choose your alert ringtone and how often foe it to check and how you can choose the severity level for what's a emergency in your eyes .
Used to be great. Now I receive NOTHING at all. Recent tornado warning - NO Notification. Settings are correct.
Used to be great... but for months now says cannot connect. On to find a reliable app since this one no longer is.
LOVE this app but since getting galaxy S9 constantly says unable to connect to NWS. please help before tornado season starts!!!
is the developer still around. i paid for pro years ago hasnt worked in months curious how people still rate it 5 stars.
This app is bad. Tornado warning issued for area and the app said no watches or warnings.
Useful, accurate and timely notifications.
was a great app, now it is always unavailable. not letting me know when there is bad weather coming
Used to be good but stopped working properly. Appears to be an abandoned app.
works sonetimes. when it does its great
Worked for a few years, but a chemical explosion happened 2 miles from my house and I didn't get a peep from the app. I opened it to find out why to realize the app hasn't been connecting for 4 months. Kinda a big deal to miss a chemical exposure that close to home. It appears others have been having similar connectivity issues.
I used to love this app! It has become so unreliable and cannot connect. I have tried data, wifi, troubleshooting mode, reinstalling... Nothing works. Seems like multiple people are having the same problems. The last update was a year ago so it sounds like nobody is listening.
It's been a great app for a long time, but for the last few months all I see is "an error occurred updating the NEWS fed. Alerts may not be completely updated". If I could find a solution to this problem I'd give the app a great rating. It's definitely comforting to have when it's working. EDIT: Reinstalling fixed the issue. This is a great app.
I used to have this on my old Android and it was fantastic, but it won't work on my new phone. The troubleshooting didn't help and I just couldn't get it to connect to a server. Since I need this for tornado warnings I really need it to work. If it's no longer a working app it needs to be removed, it could be dangerous if someone relies on it and it fails.
The app has performed very well for me. It provides timely alerts. I would like to see a button to force instant polling rather than waiting for the next polling time. I often have data turned off and a "Poll Now" button would be very helpful when I turn on data. I would also like to see the polling time displayed as minutes and seconds rather than just seconds OR show the hour and minute of the next polling time.
This app gave me enough notice to make it home to my family and get them secured in the house , the tornado missed my sisters house by 50'. I was 15 minutes away at a friend's house at the time . So for this reason I give 5 stars . She lost two of her 3 barns and lots of trees down some neighbors lost brick homes. Hope this helps with your decision on this app.
As with other users, I had a great experience using this app. It does seem like there isn't any developer support because the connectivity is unreliable. However, it also appears Google updated the way Android reports network availability to apps. This app has some network sensing which no longer works and therefore believes it is always disconnected. In a highly connected cellular region there is always a connection, WiFi or otherwise. In Troubleshooting, enable Ignore Network Status. Once I did that, this valuable life saver came back to life for me.
On my galaxy note 5, the app misses all watches and warnings and just says it cannot access the NWS servers. I've got the troubleshooting mode on, but still it doesn't work. Used to work well on an older android phone.
I've had this for years and have had it on my past phones.. Although just recently I've had problems with the app, it only works when only data is on. I can't just use data only because that will use up all my data. I can't even get updates on Wi-Fi.
Stopped working. Says alert service disabled. Not a local issue - it does it no matter what zip you put In.
It seems that the severity level doesn't change. Although I have changed to a higher severity level the alarm still sounds for just about everything.
Tornados are rare in my area. We live in an area without sirens. Your app continued to warn me as a tornado went through were I live. Was small so not much damage. We were in the shelter anyway because of this app. Thanks
This use to be a very good app, but not any more. All it ever says is not connected. I have uninstalled and reinstalled several times. Still works only for a short time. I have uninstalled for the last time.
I just had a tornado warning at 2am, and the app never went off. I found out via emergency text, which I also never got because the phone was on silent. Very scary that this didnt work.
Used to work just fine, but now it just keeps saying "An error occurred contacting the NWS feed"
This app is a waste of time. I live in an 80+ year old house, and if the temperature drops below freezing, the pipes can freeze and burst, so I need an alert system I can rely on. It's easy to set this app up and add keywords, but it just doesn't function - even after I reset it according to the developer's suggestion. Such a shame - I thought this one had potential. I'm uninstalling it.