Storm Hunter Wx Reviews

Storm Hunter Wx Reviews

Published by on 2023-11-08

🏷️ About: John McLaughlin's Storm Hunter Weather Developed in partnership with former KCCI-TV (Des Moines, IA) meteorologist John McLaughlin to provide a simplified display of advanced radar data and Safety Net alerting to multiple locations with user-definable thresholds. McLaughlin pioneered the use of Doppler radar for severe storm tracking on Iowa television, working with Bob Baron of Baron Weather to develop and install the nation.


       


Overall Customer Experience 😎


🤬 Negative experience
44.3%

😎 Positive experience
39.7%

🫥 Neutral
16.0%

~ from Justuseapp.com NLP analysis of 78 combined software reviews.



Summary of Customer Reviews (Takeaways): 💎

- Provides more information than standard weather apps

- Allows users to view storm details such as height, speed, and hail

- Sends tornado alerts prior to emergency alerts from NWS

- Shows mesocyclone data which is useful for spotting storms

- Developed by a well-known meteorologist

- Has many features for advanced weather enthusiasts

- Radar updates quickly and storm tracks can be adjusted by locale size

- Easy to customize what information to see and get alerts for



Read 22 Customer Service Reviews 😠💢

4.1 out of 5
Poor For Most Everyone

EVERYTHING ON HERE IS STUFF YOU GET FROM A BASIC WEATHER APP, StormHunterWx IS NOTHING SPECIAL, DONT BELIEVE THE HYPE AND DONT DOWLOAD.
So, If youre like me, and like to study wind shear/velocity, reflectivity maps, etc to see what storm may become tornadic, StormHunterWx isnt for you, UNLESS, youre in ONE OF ONLY 4 CITIES StormHunterWx actually has velocity maps for.

Paste

Why does it paste from clipboard whenever I open StormHunterWx ? That’s not okay.

3day forecast needs work

‘Today’ forecast header: Mostly cloudy.
First line of forecast description: Partly cloudy skies.
Not really confident of any accuracy, when something as simple as this is incorrect.....

Please Update

StormHunterWx needs to be updated to reflect the new iPhone screens.

Where is the BTI on iOS?!?! :(

Have StormHunterWx on my Samsung Chromebook and love it! So I thought it would great for my new iPad too! While, yes it’s still a fantastic app, I was a little disappointed that the iOS version doesn’t have the Baron Tornado Index(BTI) on the storm tracks! I would love for that to make its way to the iOS version! Make it happen! Pretty please!?

Apple

Active Self Protection

Great app

A good wx app & it even has free lightning data! There are a lot of different options to look at. StormHunterWx had been causing me problems earlier, but after I updated the software on my iPhone I haven't noticed any issues & seems to be working great again.

Great App for Iowans

Could use a little more polish, but StormHunterWx is very useful. Many other popular radar/weather apps seem to have very delayed push notifications. I get Storm Hunter WX notifications very quickly, for each of the locations I've set up.

LOVE THIS APP!!! But...

StormHunterWx is AMAZING! It is by far my favorite weather app. I will give 5 stars when iPhone X optimization is added!

Good to have with me

I think this is a superb app. Works both stateside and while off shores.

Found a tornado

StormHunterWx is awesome. The feature that shows mesocyclone data is so useful. Last June, I spotted a supercell on the map that was just 10 miles north of my house. Drove up the road and StormHunterWx showed s tornado vortex signature and sure enough 5 minutes later it dropped a beautiful low precip EF3 that sat on the ground for an hour. No injuries too! I was there before the storm was even tornado warned thanks to StormHunterWx . Also, tornado-genesis is amazing.

Great app for weather

Great app!!! Highly recommend

My go-to weather app

This is a great free app and provides way more info than the weather channel one that’s standard on iPhones. I love how you can click on the storm and view the height, speed, hail, etc. I live SW of Marshalltown and StormHunterWx sent me tornado alerts prior to the emergency alert from the NWS.

Edited to add my biggest complaint, which may not be a big deal for some: the forecasts are very liberal with the rain forecasting. My other apps will say a slight chance and StormHunterWx will say like 80% all day, and it doesn’t rain. I just check my other apps to compare.

I hope in the future John makes some tutorials or maybe a paid version for those wanting to get into hobby meteorology, for lack of a better term. Most weather companies/apps explain things in a very watered down way, so I would definitely be interested in something like that!

Love the new update.

I love StormHunterWx. Update is awesome! Only thing I wish it had it where I can set up Widgets. Other then that, love StormHunterWx!

Awesome app!

One of the best weather apps I’ve ever used! So many features it’s easy to customize what you want to see and get alerts for. So helpful!

Great App for Iowans!

The radar updates much quicker than others that use the NEXRAD sites. When using the storm tracks you can adjust by locale size which is a cool feature.

Fantastic weather app

It was developed by John McLaughlin, one of the best meteorologists in the country, so you know this is going to be a superior app. There are tons of features for advanced weather enthusiasts, yet they went out of the way to make it very user friendly for novices. Highly recommended!

Play feature

Only problem with this whole app is that when you zoom in or out or slide to another area the radar pauses and you have to press play each time you do something. Other then that best Weather app on the market

GREAT APP and loaded with features

John and his partners have put together an incredible app that not only tells the temp and shows you a radar but it also does so much more. And no more guessing on how things work because John has put together some wonderful training videos that are concise as well as instructional. A+++++

Warns faster than other apps

I downloaded this about a month ago. We have some bad weather tonight. All apps said non tornadic except this one warned me otherwise. I thought it was a bum app until my other apps warned me about the tornado about 10mins later. So StormHunterWx was actually warning me before anyone else even knew.

Great App for Iowans

Could use a little more polish, but StormHunterWx is very useful. Many other popular radar/weather apps seem to have very delayed push notifications. I get Storm Hunter WX notifications very quickly, for each of the locations I've set up.

Good to have with me

I think this is a superb app. Works both stateside and while off shores.



Is Storm Hunter Wx Safe? 🙏

Yes. Storm Hunter Wx is very safe to use. This is based on our NLP (Natural language processing) analysis of over 78 User Reviews sourced from the Appstore and the appstore cumulative rating of 4.1/5 . Justuseapp Safety Score for Storm Hunter Wx Is 47.3/100.

Safety Analysis

64.5% of users say app is Safe 👍
64.5%

21.1% of users say app is Risky 🚨
21.1%

14.5% of users have Some Concerns ⚠️
14.5%


Is Storm Hunter Wx Legit? 💯

Yes. Storm Hunter Wx is a totally legit app. This conclusion was arrived at by running over 78 Storm Hunter Wx User Reviews through our NLP machine learning process to determine if users believe the app is legitimate or not. Based on this, Justuseapp Legitimacy Score for Storm Hunter Wx Is 66.4/100..

🔏 Privacy & Data Safety

Storm Hunter Wx collected the following data from you:

  • Data Used to Track You:
    • Identifiers
  • Data Linked to You:
    • User Content
    • Usage Data
    • Diagnostics
  • Data Not Linked to You:
    • Location
    • Contact Info
    • Identifiers
    • Usage Data
    • Diagnostics

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Features

McLaughlin pioneered the use of Doppler radar for severe storm tracking on Iowa television, working with Bob Baron of Baron Weather to develop and install the nation's first High Definition Doppler radar (VHDD) in 1995.Storm Hunter allows you the option to select notification as storms begin to produce lighting, hail, or rotation so you can be alerted even before official warnings are issued.

The Storm Hunter app is linked to the Iowa Storm Chasing Network for live streaming of severe weather events from the Storm Hunter Ford Escape chase vehicle and live radar analysis for significant tornado days.

Storm Hunter Weather is sponsored by the McLaughlin Family companies in Iowa, Including New Way Ford, New Way Auto Group, McLaughlin Imprint and Apparel and Hurricane Motorsports.

Meteorologist John McLaughlin says "The Storm Hunter app is a way for me to continue to share my passion for weather, even after my 31 year career on Iowa television ended due to a medical condition.

Storm Hunter's Future Scan product extrapolates storm cells from their current radar locations out to one hour including predicted decay or growth.

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