Storm Shield
In 2 lists, ranked #58 at best: below the top 40, which get a tier.
What is Storm Shield?
Storm Shield is a weather app that sends voice and push alerts for tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, thunderstorms, winter storms and other life-threatening events. Its storm-based alerts target your exact location within a county rather than the whole county. The app also shows a radar map, NOAA alerts, and optional paid subscriptions and purchases for extra map layers and lightning alerts.
Pricing. Storm Shield is free to download on the App Store.
Good for
- Households wanting alerts for family members in several locations
- Users in areas prone to tornadoes, hurricanes or flooding
- Apple Watch users who want alerts on their wrist
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Description
Named by Time.com's @Techland as one of the best weather apps for your iPhone and Apple Watch. 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. What people are saying: • Storm Shield "alerted our family of the Broken Arrow, OK tornado, faster than the TV and tornado sirens." - Robyn • "I was in Oklahoma City during the tornado... we were right in its path. Your app literally was a life saver." - dcalk12 Benefits: • Get voice alerts just like a NOAA weather radio via push notification anywhere in the United States. • With Apple Watch, get a tap on your wrist when alerts are issued for your locations. • Add Storm Shield's widget to your Today screen to get quick access to active alerts for the first location in your app. • Touch Storm Shield's app icon on you
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Where it is listed
- Best Weather Alert Appslisted, beyond the tiered top, score 68
- Best Weather Appslisted, beyond the tiered top, score 55
Questions about Storm Shield
Does it send alerts for my exact location?
It uses storm-based alerts to warn you based on your exact location within a county, which it says helps reduce false alarms compared with county-based alerts.
Do I need to pay to use it?
The app is listed as free. Premium Weather is a paid auto-renewing monthly subscription, and Lightning is a separate purchase, both unlocking extra features.
Where does the alert data come from and where does it work?
The listing says it shows NOAA severe weather alerts on the map and that voice alerts work anywhere in the United States. It does not state other countries.
All the facts
- Price
- Free download
- App Store rating
- 4.8 out of 5
- Number of ratings
- 113,514
- Current version
- (486 days ago)
- App Store data read
- App Store category
- Weather
- Good for
- Households wanting alerts for family members in several locations, Users in areas prone to tornadoes, hurricanes or flooding, Apple Watch users who want alerts on their wrist
- Requires
- iOS 15.0 or later
- Size
- 92 MB
- Age rating
- 4+
- Languages
- 2
- Maker
- unclaimed
- As data
- JSON · why it ranks here