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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.\n\nStorm-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.\n\n\nWhat people are saying:\n• Storm Shield \"alerted our family of the Broken Arrow, OK tornado, faster than the TV and tornado sirens.\" - Robyn\n\n• \"I was in Oklahoma City during the tornado... we were right in its path. Your app literally was a life saver.\" - dcalk12\n\n\nBenefits:\n• Get voice alerts just like a NOAA weather radio via push notification anywhere in the United States.\n• With Apple Watch, get a tap on your wrist when alerts are issued for your locations.\n• Add Storm Shield's widget to your Today screen to get quick access to active alerts for the first location in your app.\n• Touch Storm Shield's app icon on your 3D-Touch enabled iPhone for widget access.\n• Hi-Def radar map is your home screen so you can quickly see what's going on at your locations.\n• Fully supports Dark Mode in iOS 13.\n• Long-tap on the map to get current conditions, hourly and daily forecasts.\n• Save additional locations to ensure family members stay safe.\n\nView NOAA severe weather alerts on the map to see where dangerous weather is happening:\n• Tap alerts to view info\n• Flood watches & warnings\n• Tornadoes & Thunderstorms\n• Hurricane & Tropical Storm forecast tracks\n• Winter storms\n• Marine & Coastal alerts\n• Radar & Clouds\n• Wind Speed\n• Snow Fall\n• Water Temperatures\n• Road Weather\n• Premium Weather (purchase required)\n• Lightning Alerts and notifications (purchase required)\n\n\nEnhance your app with auto-renewing monthly subscriptions:\n\n• Buy 'Premium Weather' to unlock these features and see predicted imagery for these map layers:\n\n1) Future Radar\n2) Future Clouds\n3) Future Clouds & Radar together\n4) Future Surface Temperature Land\n5) Future Surface Temperature Water\n6) Future Surface Temperature Land & Water together\n7) Future Wind Speeds Map\n8) Storm Tracks: See how fast storms are moving & where they're headed.\n\n\n• Buy 'Lightning' to unlock these 2 features:\n\n1) Lightning strike push notifications up to 10 miles away.\n2) See lightning on the map within 100 miles of a selected location.\n\nNote:\n• Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase.\n• Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period.\n• Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal.\n• Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase.\n• No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during active subscription period.\n• Privacy Policy: https://www.stormshieldapp.com/privacy_stormshield_wxs.html\n• Terms of Use: https://www.stormshieldapp.com/terms_stormshield_wxs.html\n• Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable.\n\nStorm Shield is made possible by The E.W. 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