NWS Weather Alerts Widget

3.9
104 reviews
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Everyone
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About this app

This is an Android home screen widget to display current weather alerts from the US National Weather Service.

You can choose a county or state within the US (or the entire US) and it will display a list of all of the current weather alerts for that area on the widget. If there's more than fits, the list scrolls, and you can tap on an alert to open the full text of the alert. There is an accompanying app which can be used to configure what area you want and shows the raw feed data if you're really curious (though that part was mostly there for debugging, and might go away one of these days now that it all works). It does not currently do audible alerts (or any alerts), but that's probably coming soon.

I created this because I wanted a tablet on the wall in my kitchen to display weather alerts on the screen, and for all the plethora of weather apps out there, I couldn't find one that showed anything more than a (!) icon on their widgets for alerts, and you had to click through to find out what they were. Some of them would put the alerts into the notification bar, but that wasn't much better. So this one displays a list of the current alerts right on the widget, and that is the only purpose of the widget.

This application is open source. To report bugs, request new features, or If you'd like to help make it better, please visit the project page on GitHub at https://justdave.github.io/nwsweatheralertswidget/

This widget is not endorsed by or affiliated with the National Weather Service (NWS). Use of the NWS logo indicates that unaltered data/product has been obtained from NWS.

The full changelog can be found at https://github.com/justdave/nwsweatheralertswidget/releases
Updated on
Dec 22, 2020

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Ratings and reviews

3.8
76 reviews
A Google user
March 10, 2019
i like the concept, i wanted a widget that would actively show warnings. but, it doesn't work that well. i will get a warning on another system, and then i could wait up to an hour before this thing shows that warning. if i do have something, such as an advisory, and it turns into a warning, it won't update itself. sometimes i have to go into the program to see if the warning is even there, and right now it is, but the widget still shows the expired warning. it doesn't prioritize the importance of the warning either. it does it by date order. so if you have the 3x1 widget, it shows the last message and not the main one. so like it could say - there is a slippery ice advisory, but hide the warning of a blizzard on the way. more so, it takes a lot of space on the desktop. there is no reason to take up that much space, the text at the top can be smaller. they can fit more warnings if the tabs were half the height. -- i'm bumping this to a 4 since the creator did write back, and it might be an issue with my phone. since it does work at least some of the time. i still think it should be a bit smaller looking.
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Justdave
March 9, 2019
The lack of updating probably has to do with Marshmallow and newer killing background tasks. If you exempt it from battery monitoring it should work. I've been working on a version that does it the new way so it'll avoid that but I haven't gotten it working yet.
S B
May 27, 2022
Almost great app (very close). I am hoping for the update sometime soon. This does pretty much what I want. The background updates are still flaky for me. Multiple location would be nice. Storing the alerts locally would be nice for seeing last warnings without current network service. Thanks for the quick update due to the NWS change (faster than USPS package delivery).
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Moto Ol
February 26, 2021
Settings consist only of manually setting your location. It did find the alerts in my area but I have no idea if or how it will notify me of future alerts. Uninstalled. Update: My bad for not seeing the part of the description about no notifications. Would be a 5star app if it did. A very simple/lightweight free notifier is needed. Thanks to the developer for their contribution!
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Justdave
February 26, 2021
Thanks for the honest review! It doesn't do notifications yet, that's still on the wish list. The main purpose is for the home screen widget.

What's new

* Built against target API 30 (minimum API 14 still)
* Fix "waiting for feed download" after Dec 11, 2020 NWS requirements changes
* several crash fixes
* adaptive icon

Version 2.0 coming soon!