Storm team 12 Reviews

by Swaltner

Stormteam12 was great until someone decided it was wise to send out daily alerts about nothing ("be sure to check you lottery numbers", "it's going to get hotter 3 days from today", "hey look at me"). I complained to their feedback on the 2nd instance, uninstalled it after about a week of daily nuisance alerts. Chatted with some friends at a local Apple user group today, 5 of 7 of us had each come to the same decision to uninstall this annoying app.

by JodyNeff

Since the update a little over a week ago, Stormteam12 is extremely difficult to use. The map moves too fast, and the resolution seems worse. There is a glitch as well that occurs after receiving an alert. For instance, if I get an alert that there is lightning nearby, and I click on the alert, it takes me to a static zoomed in map. But then when you return to the radar map, you cannot get any the watch or warning boxes (that normally disappear while the map is in motion) to go away. These boxes cover the radar image. Restarting does nothing. Frustrating. I’ll switch to something else.

by Flurr Ball

Despite the most recent update, Stormteam12 is a major data hog and battery drain. Something was using major amounts of data and I was able to confirm that Stormteam12 was the culprit by resetting the usage statistics and rechecking less than a week later to find that it used 1.7 gigs. The total of all my other apps was less than .25 gB in that 6 day period. Before this I tried scaling back Stormteam12 ’s location access but that made no noticeable difference (“only while using app” instead of “always”). Besides the data, there were days when it was responsible for more than 60% of my battery drain.

by Isitreallybetter

Don’t like the radar. The previous version had color variations that would let you see the intensity of approaching hail. This one is green, yellow, and red. I would also like to have all of the semi transparent watches and warnings be an option instead of default. Every time I open the map, I have to go through and shut off the watches and warnings to get a clear view of the map and the things I want to see like earthquakes and storm tracks, I have to put on manually. Somebody please enlighten me on how this one is better. Wish I had a choice, I’d go back.

by HiccupNAstrid

I used this all the time before the update. Now it takes forever to open. Normally I get tired of waiting or I have to go to work before I can check the weather. This is not useful. I have only been able to use it a couple times since the update. I had to load KAKE FirstAlert because I need to know the weather. Please fix it. I have an iPhone SE updated with the latest iOS and a 100 MBPS WiFi network. It should not be this slow. It was very pretty the couple times it opened. However, if it generally doesn’t open, what does that matter?

by Ksleatherboy

I’m about fed up with Stormteam12 . It is so unreliable. Just last night I checked it and said storms at 5 a.m, checked at 2 a.m. and no chance of rain. Then at 5 a.m. storms came through. Sometimes you can look at the daily and it says one thing but if you look at the hourly it contradicts what the daily said. I can be looking at it on my phone and my partner in the same room will look at it at the same time and it says something different. I just can’t rely on it to plan a day. Very disappointing and frustrating.

by Dodgevixen

If you don't get rid of these stupid notifications that pop up once a day then I will be forced to uninstall. It used to be when I heard your notifications I would instantly grab my phone and look because you always told me about severe weather and such. Why would I want to know that the forecast is changing soon. Or about a hurricane that isn't even affecting me yet. Get rid of these stupid notifications please.

by Barnsh

Sadly, this version has lots to be desired.

The map cannot be expanded and uses only half the screen. In the Locations the selected city is bright yellow with white lettering so cannot be read. The dark blue/black background on other screens has blue lettering that is nearly same value so very difficult to read. It was not intuitive how to delete a city. Finally discovered it in Settings. And in daily mode there is a band of advertising among the days. Wishing for previous version.

The only plus is it is certainly very colorful.

by TheFirstJust4Kicks

Stormteam12 does a fine job of delivering local weather information. However, a key reason I used it was so I could get severe weather notifications. It used to limit itself to that. Then lately, it started sending out notifications for things like "clear and breezy". Annoying, but it delivered some info. NOW it is sending SPAM. Messages like, "Want to know when it will rain next? Check Stormteam12 ". Infuriating. Useless. If this doesn't stop in the next week, I'm moving away from Stormteam12.

by Dpjohnston

Stormteam12 itself is a great way to check local weather and check the 24/7 weather stream when there is severe weather in the area.

Lately they have been sending out pointless notifications. Before I would get notifications severe weather in my area. Now I am getting notifications that the end of summer isn't here yet, there is a heat wave coming or that Labor Day is going to be between 80-90 degrees.

If they don't stop soon I'll be looking for another app for local weather alerts.

by BrettApple

As in the title. When viewing anything in Stormteam12 a full screen advertisement pops up, after dismissing the ad it will come back within seconds making Stormteam12 unusable. Along with this simply going to view a video forecast makes a video ad come up every single time. I get banner ads sure but this isn’t acceptable by any means. There’s plenty of alternative weather apps out there, only reason to use this was for local forecasts with our own meteorologists and to support the local station. But that’s getting much harder to do now.

by Jargon452234

Used to be really good about notifying for severe weather. Lately been notifying me every time the sun rose in the morning. On my way back to Wichita from KC last week, I counted 8 notifications about lightning, each about 5 minutes apart. Tried to turn them off, but kept coming.

Decided to kill Stormteam12 and uninstall it from my phone. Unless it stops, will use a different app.

by Val-Mal

I used to love Stormteam12, but now I get notifications for Kansas weather and I live in Connecticut.

I have the location set up properly and still every day get alerts for Kansas weather. This has been going on over a week. When are they going to fix this?

by Shk_ibr

The real utility for Stormteam12 would be if you could set it for tornado warnings only. I don’t care if there’sna severe thunderstorm with 80 mile an hour winds and large hail at 1 AM because I’m already safely sucked into my house. What I care about is a tornado where I should seek basement shelter, but your app lacks a setting for that. If I’m awake I don’t need an app to tell me what other alerts are out there. You need more specific setting alerts. If I set a severe weather alert and you wake me to tell me the wind is blowing hard in Kansas I’d be angrier than the storm.

by Hwheaser

Storm Team 12 is my go to weather app. for local weather and weather around the country I am interested in. Very user friendly for me.

by Osborn30

Always reliable, accurate weather information.

by Grandpa-d

I’m surprised at the low rating for Stormteam12. I love it!! I had five weather apps when I did my review and found this one to be the best. Yes, I get alerts for other parts of the KWCH viewing area but that doesn’t bother me.

Hint: if you don’t want notifications, turn them off.

by RSW147526

We now live in Shell Knob, MO but I still use your weather app. I find that you come closer to accurately predicting our weather than the the TV stations in Springfield do. We live right on Tablerock so there is a bit of lake adjustment but your overall forecasts are good.

by Grandma Hugs

Check your weather first thing in the morning! I check it many times a day!

by Tlhipp

For western Kansas (Oakley) you seem to be most accurate for our area. I check the site many times. Sometimes radar and map aren’t as accurate but close. Number one in my book. Thank you!!!

by Jj5365

The title says it all. Since the recent redesign of Stormteam12 , it is almost useless. Why use Stormteam12 when other weather apps open in a fraction of the time? I need accurate weather information quickly and Stormteam12 no longer does it.

The original design was way better. Why load the 12.2 feed if you don’t want to see it? Why load the stupid blog posts? Why load the closings area when there are none? Etcetera. Stupid is as stupid does!

Nasty and not user friendly. Pretty much like this weather team who interrupts network programming to ramble on about stuff happening a hundred miles away when they have 12.2 and 12.5 broadcasting weather ALL THE TIME!!! Just put a crawl on the bottom of 12.1 and 12.4 saying there’s a potentially dangerous storm and refer people to 12.2 and 12.5 to get the details!!!!! Why have a 24/7 weather channel (simulcast on two sub channels) if you don’t use it to solve this ongoing and easily resolved issue?

by AVMan2

Don’t care if lightning was 4.2 miles from my location. When there’s a thunderstorm with lightning it goes off all the time and it gets annoying. Only wanted notifications of storms approaching. Just shut off notifications so I guess I won’t get those now but am sick of all the notifications that mean nothing. Maybe you should send out lightning notifications when it hits my location.

by Goondog

I downloaded Stormteam12 because I am a fan of the news station and the weather team. Unfortunately, Stormteam12 is nowhere near the quality. It takes excruciatingly long periods of time for the video blogs to load. Quite often I find myself closing Stormteam12 to use a different one that works better.

As a result, I am deleting Stormteam12.

by Khart25

With the latest update, Stormteam12 now takes way too long to load. They tried to put a lot of information on the homepage, but the downside is it takes longer than a minute to load. I can pull up two or three other weather apps in the amount of time it takes this one to display.