Features & Capabilities

First Alert Weather is a Chrome extension that delivers real-time local weather with high‑resolution 250m radar, future radar, satellite imagery, and frequent updates. It includes GPS-based location awareness and hourly forecasts from trusted computer models.

Users can save favorites, access station content for mobile users, and receive National Weather Service severe weather alerts with optional push notifications to stay safe in severe conditions.

User Growth & Download Statistics

By:
Gray Television Group, Inc.
Rating:
4.70
(19,167)
41 new ratings
Version:
6.2.512 Last updated: 2026-05-29
Version code:
886257285
Creation date:
2011-02-10
Compatible devices:
Size:
257.14MB
URLs:
Website ,Privacy policy
Full description:
See detailed description
Source:
Apple Apps Store
Data ingested on:
2026-06-04
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Developed by:
Gray Television Group, Inc.
Apple Apps Store
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/first-alert-weather/id418407216
Website:
https://www.wlbt.com/apps/

User Reviews

The app is valued for accurate, easy-to-navigate weather information, hourly updates, travel planning benefits, and in-app video coverage. However, frequent crashes, heavy ads, unreliable radar/forecasts, slow live video, and location/alert mismatches are common complaints. Overall, it’s highly useful content-wise but reliability and UX issues significantly detract from the experience.
Pros
  • Accurate and dependable weather information with an easy-to-navigate interface
  • Timely hourly updates and alerts that help with planning and travel
  • In-app weather videos/coverage from the news team
  • Useful for daily planning and scheduling around weather
  • Generally reliable performance and broad weather coverage
Cons
  • Frequent crashes, especially when tapping Daily or Hourly, with no easy crash reporting
  • Heavy and annoying ads that disrupt viewing and delay updates
  • Poor live video experience: redirects to a website and loads slowly
  • Radar/forecast data often appears inaccurate or inconsistent with other sources
  • Location/alert issues: alerts from the wrong state or content not relevant to the user
Recent reviews
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!
by Wo*****, 2026-01-30

Love the App
by OS*****, 2025-09-17

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.
by Dm*****, 2025-09-03
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