Storm Shield

UPDATE 5/29/18 - If you are experiencing issues with notifications, please provide more detail by filing a Support ticket from within your Storm Shield App, which provides us with additional diagnostic data, and we’ll be happy to look into it. UPDATE 3/25/18 - Version 4.4 released: UPDATE #1: New Weather Alerts improvements: Thanks to your feedback from the initial version 4 release, Storm Shield App now provides over 160 weather alert types (instead of 45) for which you can choose to receive a push notification. This is even more alert types than the original Storm Shield App version 3's push notifications (which had 110). To choose which alert types you want to enable or disable, on the Map screen tap Settings (the gear icon), then Manage Weather Alerts. As always, when you receive a push notification from Storm Shield App, you will hear an audio notification that says: "Beep! Beep! Beep! The National Weather Service has issued a 'Name of Alert'." UPDATE #2) New Lightning Alerts improvement: In Settings, you can now enable and disable Lightning push notifications with an on/off switch. Also, when you have Lightning Alerts enabled, a new slider lets you adjust the notification sensitivity between 1 and 10 miles. Adjust this by 1-mile increments to be notified of lightning strikes within X miles. We hope you enjoy these latest improvements!

To be clear, you are not being charged a monthly fee for features you had previously. In fact, NO features from the old version 3 app were moved to a monthly fee. In this version 4 release, two NEW features, Future Weather (which unlocks Future Radar, Storm Tracks, Future Temperature Map) and Lightning Strikes (which unlocks Lightning Notifications and Lightning strikes on the map), are NEW additions to the app, and are subscription-based and optional. These features did not exist in the old version 3 app. With your download of Storm Shield App version 4, the features that were in the previous version 3 app are still available at no additional charge. You can: get severe weather alerts, view alerts on the radar map, view details of active alerts, save multiple locations, view current conditions, view hourly and daily forecasts, view local TV station content (if a local media provider exists in your market). Also, there are several NEW features you get for FREE that were not available in the old version 3 app: view Clouds and Radar together on the map; Wind Speed; Snow Cover; Temperature Map; Water Temperature Map; Road Weather; Earthquakes; and the ability to view multiple severe weather layers on the map at the same time (which version 3 could not do). If you have other concerns or something isn't performing as you expect, please provide more detail by filing a Support ticket from within your Storm Shield App, which provides us with additional diagnostic data, and we’ll be happy to look into it.

The features that were in the previous version of the app are still here at no additional charge, which include severe weather alerting for your current and saved locations, ability to view current conditions, daily and hourly forecasts for each of your locations, and view radar and alert polygons on the map. In addition, there are several NEW features you get for FREE that were not available in the old app: view Clouds and Radar together on the map; Wind Speed; Snow Cover; Temperature Map; Water Temperature Map; Road Weather; Earthquakes; and the ability to view multiple severe weather layers on the map at the same time. Also, two NEW optional paid features, Future Weather (which unlocks Future Radar, Storm Tracks, Future Temperature Map) and Lightning Strikes (which unlocks Lightning Notifications and Lightning strikes on the map), are NEW additions to the app. These are subscription-based and optional. If you feel there is something missing that was in the previous version and is not free in this version, please let us know by filing a Support ticket from within your Storm Shield App and we’ll be happy to look into it.

Thank you for letting us know how you feel about the optional monthly subscriptions, and that you enjoy the app.

Thank you for providing your comments. We're sorry to hear that you're not pleased with the latest version of Storm Shield App. Based on your comment, it sounds as if you're upset with the differences between the old v3.x app versus the new v4.x app. We'd like to clarify the differences between the two app versions. You do not have to pay again to continue using the features in the version 4 app that you had in the old version 3 app. In the new version 4 app, just like you had in the old version 3 app, you can still: receive severe weather alerts for your locations; see past radar imagery; view alerts on the radar map; view details of active alerts; save multiple locations; view current conditions; view hourly and daily detailed forecasts; view local TV station content (if a local media provider exists in your market). There are several NEW features you get for FREE that were not available in the old version 3 app: view Clouds and Radar together on the map; view Wind Speed map layer; view Snow Cover map layer; view Temperature map layer; view Water Temperature map layer; view Road Weather map layer; view Earthquakes map later; view multiple severe weather layers on the map at the same time (which version 3 could not do); add more than 5 saved locations (which version 3 could not do). Lastly, in the version 4 release, two NEW features, which are new additions to the app that did not exist in the version 3 app, are paid features which are subscription-based, and optional. These include: Premium Weather (which unlocks Future Radar, Storm Tracks, Future Temperature Map); and Lightning Strikes (which unlocks Lightning Notifications and Lightning strikes on the map).