With the WNYT First Warning Weather App you will receive critical alerts via voice and push notification regarding life-threatening weather events. Your Apple device will “wake up” with alerts and also track your location to warn you wherever you go. You will also be able to preset and save an additional location to receive notifications regarding weather events, allowing you to stay informed even when you are not there.
Listen to local weather forecasts while you are on the move. Enjoy the power of a NOAA Weather Radio, with all the convenience and precision of a smart phone.
• More Precise Alerts: WNYT First Warning Weather App provides more accurate alerts than those offered by typical consumer alerting services. Most of these services will alert you to First Warning Weather if you are in a county only partially covered by a watch or warning, even if you are not actually directly within the watch/warning. WNYT First Warning Weather App ensures you receive an alert only if your device or saved locations fall inside a watch/warning box. That means you aren’t disturbed by alarms not relevant to your location. You also have complete control over what types of alerts you receive through your app. Pick just the type of alerts you want from a list. For example, select only tornado warnings or just winter weather warnings.
• Follow Me: Follow me is a critical feature if you are on the go. Imagine you are driving through an area of adverse weather. This app will alert you if you are in an area when a watch/warning is issued, without you having to do anything. You don’t have to stop and add a new location or query your device.
• Friends and Family: WNYT First Warning Weather App can also save a fixed location, in addition to your current position. This means you can make sure friends and family, at school, out of state, at a ballgame, etc., are safe.
• Battery Management: WNYT First Warning Weather App uses Location Services to strike a balance between location accuracy and battery usage. Background tracking will have some effect on overall battery life. You can control how much accuracy you want the application to use for your location and thus impact the battery management. You may turn off background tracking for battery conservation in the app settings. In this mode WNYT First Warning Weather App will only utilize the GPS when the app is open.
• Audio: WNYT First Warning Weather App provides audio alerts in the form of beeps followed by a brief description of the alert type. The audio could wake you in the middle of the night, or give you information you need when you can’t stop to look at the phone. Furthermore, you can listen to the alerts and forecasts for your area at any time.
• Video: In markets where local media partners participate, you can view streaming video of First Warning Weather coverage for up-to-the-minute information.