News 9 Weather 4+

This app has been great from the time I first downloaded in 2013. I didn’t care for the new layout but I figured I’d get used to it. I used it a great deal for the radar when I lived in Oklahoma for farming. Then when I moved, I kept it because of how accurate the radar was and the notifications. I have family scattered all over Oklahoma; I have relatives that are terrified of tornadoes so I keep tabs when weather events are happening in their area. Last night I received alerts of excessive heat, lightning, thunderstorms, and flooding for the Guthrie area. At no time did I receive alerts for high wind or the freaking tornado that bounced through there. I emailed the app to ask why the TORNADO notification didn’t come thru, explaining I’d received other notifications. I was told there were notifications and I needed to make sure the notifications option was turned on. I sent a screen shot of the notifications I’d received, asking if they could just have someone look into why some alerts were sent but not others and was told I should have had my news alerts on too.
Be aware this app just isn’t what it used to be and the support isn’t very helpful.

News 9 is the only news station I’ll watch in OKC but their weather app is not very user friendly. KFOR (who I don’t watch) has a very simple and clean weather app that sends out warnings when needed. I wouldn’t know if News 9’s app does because it’s too cluttered to keep on my phone. I strongly suggest making the home page of the app more simplistic with maybe the radar with a strip along the bottom showing the forecast and maybe a side with options to watch live, recent videos etc. The current layout involving scrolling and and opening different stuff up is just not user friendly in my opinion. Again, News 9 is the only news station I’ll watch but I wish they’d update their app.

This is the LEAST accurate weather app I have (but not for long, I’m uninstalling as soon as I write this!) I am sick of the weather alerts that say (like this most recent notification) “A winter storm warning has been issued for current location.” Whaaat? I pulled up “current watches and warnings” on the NWS site and there ARE NONE. Where does this app think I am?! This happens all the time and ironically, when something IS happening at my current location, I get nothing. I have checked and double checked (and then some) my settings, saved locations, etc and it never changes. Uninstalled and reinstalled. It’s frustrating and I’m done with it. And yes, I know, David Payne didn’t create the app but his face is on it and I wouldn’t want MY face attached to an app that is this horrible.