First Alert Weather

What reviewers actually said

Built only from these 120 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.

1. [R2] 5/5 · US This is great: Ok so WLBT is awesome ok who cares what the other people rate it there probably not from the south . This app is amazing it gives you videos but no it’s not long at all . The people are just impatient. I was in the march 24 2023 rolling fork tornado and the chief meteorologist Dave Roberts he saved my moms and me life!
2. [R5] 5/5 · US Weather peace of mind!: You are the best. I have only one other app. You are most dependable & accurate. Thank you
3. [R14] 5/5 · US Love this app: Love this app! Thank you for accuracy.
4. [R18] 5/5 · US 5 out of 5: The app is so accurate and I love that it like never glitches like most weather apps. And that they have videos from the news weather report.
5. [R44] 5/5 · US I: Love the app. Simple and easy. Radar is very good. I truly trust KFDX weather.
6. [R48] 5/5 · US First alert: Very accurate. Use the radar everyday
7. [R86] 5/5 · US Excellent: I can zoom in or out on radar image and see the whole area. It’s convenient
8. [R4] 1/5 · US Crashes constantly!: The app crashes constantly. Specifically when tapping on Daily or Hourly. It will crash several times in a row before it finally loads the data. There is no way to report it when it crashes either. It’s not a user issue- cache cleared, happens during good data or WiFi connection, etc. It’s been going on for quite some time.
9. [R98] 2/5 · US Very disappointed: This app is pretty much useless. Don’t think your going to use this app for weather information when your tv goes out. It crashes half the time and the other half you get a message saying this application isn’t available in your area. Even though it used to work in my area.
10. [R146] 3/5 · US Crashes: Had worked fine but now ceases on startup. The wlbt to go is doing it too. 3GS 4.3.1
11. [R50] 1/5 · US Slow: Even with perfect cell reception it takes forever for the app to load up. Once loaded app does really well with weather info and layout.
12. [R81] 3/5 · US Quality/Performance is starting to suffer: App used to perform much better; in your attempt to improve and and capabilities your performance is starting to suffer; don't try to excuse this as a network congestion/bandwidth issue; your app is getting bloatwd and performance is suffering; you can't do or be everything to everyone; please focus on providing a high-performing experience with hourly, d
13. [R96] 2/5 · US This app WAS okay but.....: The radar was nice with the full screen option. Now it freezes up constantly as does the whole app. I have uninstalled it a couple of times then reinstalled it and it is still SLOW and freezes up. I might try it again in a few months. In this day and age there has to be a better option. Now the app looses the location which makes me have to restart my phone only to have
14. [R99] 1/5 · US as slow as it gets: the app is updated but it is very slow and when the weather gets bad it never seems to work especially when i want to zoom in or out my area
15. [R9] 3/5 · US Weather app: The app has a few issues. First, it plays commercials before showing the 60-second preview of upcoming coverage, which isn’t helpful when a storm is approaching, and quick updates are needed. Second, when the news team is live, clicking to watch within the app redirects to the WLBT 3 website, where the live stream takes too long to load, again, not ideal during severe weather. Could li
16. [R11] 1/5 · US Too much ads.: Barely can see anything with ads everywhere. Feels like a 90s website.
17. [R19] 2/5 · US Coveage is okay, but the ads are absolutely mind numbing: I’m in the app trying to watch the coverage videos and I get met with a 30 second long ad. Although it’s understandable, you cannot click or close out for a second without it glitching the entire app.
18. [R29] 1/5 · US Don’t have time to watch it anymore! It’s useless: I used to rely heavily on this application for a quick 60 seconds overview of the weather forecast, but recently they’ve added commercials that are LONGER than the 60 seconds weather forecast. I simply don’t have time to sit thru the commercials to get to a 60 seconds weather summary. The application is of no use to me anymore. Last Saturday, a ho
19. [R7] 3/5 · US Wrong area: My app is set to Atlanta, but keep getting weather reports from Mississippi.
20. [R8] 1/5 · US Weather alerts: Hate yours as you give me alerts for states I do not live in. If it continues I am deleting the app
21. [R34] 1/5 · US Weather predictions and warnings: I wish you would not send out weather warnings for places not even near my location
22. [R35] 1/5 · US Too many notifications not for my area: See above
23. [R10] 1/5 · US ALWAYS WRONG!: The radar map and hourly forecasts are ALWAYS WRONG! You’d think in the year 2025 with the technology we have today that weather forecasts would at least be somewhat accurate. Wrong. A forecast of a 90-100% rain day may not see any rain at all while 30-40% may rain significantly all day. A forecast of light thunderstorms may be tornadoes. This morning for instance the hourly and
24. [R12] 2/5 · US Snow forecast lacking: I see % chance of snow, but no estimate as to the amount of snow we should expect to get during any given snow hour.
25. [R17] 1/5 · US Radar overlay: Hard to see the rain with the overlays. I have to go to other apps to see where rain or fronts are. Do not waste your time with this app.
26. [R21] 4/5 · US My go to weather app: Love the app abs wlbt but here lately the hourly forecast isn’t matching what the radar shows.
27. [R1] 1/5 · US Not a Fan of Update: I don’t like how the forecast page defaults by having today automatically expanded. Don’t like how the radar loop doesn’t pause at the end. I hate how there is no option in the app to leave suggestions.
28. [R100] 1/5 · US New update is terrible.: I’m having to delete what use to be my favorite weather app because of the new update.
29. [R103] 2/5 · US Hard to read and ver disappointed.: I use this app several times a day, more if weather is bad. The hourly and daily forecast now being black and white plus the layout makes it too difficult to read. I hate the radar image also. I used to be able to see the county outlines but can’t now. I guess this was an update but please either change this back or redesign. May have to start using the “weat
30. [R105] 2/5 · US New Update is Horrible: Severe Thunderstorm warning and watch overlays in the radar are no longer the traditional yellow color. They are red and look like Tornado warnings. Also warning/watch overlays are not nearly as transparent as in the previous version which makes it much harder to actually see the weather. I used this app mostly for the radar but will no longer use it with this new update
31. [R56] 1/5 · US No support to contact, not saving settings: I’m having to change the location back constantly to my location, and the app is no longer saving my settings. The support link in the App Store for the page is a 404 as well
32. [R93] 1/5 · US Unavailable in my location: Was working fine this morning, now says unavailable at my location. Works fine on another device in the same room. Tried uninstalling and reinstalling.
33. [R94] 2/5 · US Keeps saying unavailable in my area: I live in Yazoo county and it keeps saying not available in my area
34. [R95] 1/5 · US Terrible: Was using this app until it keeps saying not available for my location. Uninstalled and reinstalled... same thing. So.... deleted and finding another app for my local weather.
35. [R40] 1/5 · US Contacting app developers: Hi, I was unable to find a way to “contact developer “ and I have a question: do you have widgets for this app for iPhone users? Thanks in advance!
36. [R39] 5/5 · US Ben Crowley/ Ozark: Dependent on you guys. Matter of fact, we trust you with our lives and property.
37. [R82] 5/5 · US Thank God For This App: April 12, 2020 (The Easter Tornadoes) We received our alert in time to wake up our daughter, looker up some windows, and run to the opposite end of our Mobile Home..... In a matter of seconds our home was totally destroyed..... I thank God for this app because the end of the house that my daughter was sleeping on got ripped to shreds! If we hadn’t gotten the alert we wouldn
38. [R30] 1/5 · US Never correct with forecast !!!!: This is the worst weather app EVER . It very rarely is correct. They put whatever and then it constantly changes. I guess we all should have been weather reporters , you can just say whatever you want and rarely be right , still have a job and still get paid. Would not recommend this app to anyone unless it’s for a joke
39. [R113] 1/5 · US Ugh: It doesn’t matter if I’m on WiFi or on my regular data this app takes so long to load it’s ridiculous, everything else I run is fine it’s only this one that is slow!!
40. [R79] 1/5 · US Many Ads: This may be a good weather app but it has so many larger ads that I can’t tell. This app is not about providing weather. It’s about selling ads and they sell many. They never mention the ads while pushing it on TV. There are many apps to get local weather without all the ads.
41. [R49] 1/5 · US Don’t need to know about those states: I have my app in my town in Oklahoma and that works just fine but all of the videos that keep popping up are about Mississippi and Louisiana. Why would I be interested in those two states on a minute by minute status? It’s ridiculous.