WRAL Weather app: How to use it and its most useful features

THEY SAY THIS TWEAK A STATE

AUDIT OF AGENCIES IS DUE TO BE

RELEASED SOMETIME THIS SUMMER.

RIGHT TO YOU KNOW HOW YOU'RE

GOING TO RECEIVE IMPORTANT

WEATHER ALERTS OVERNIGHT

TONIGHT. THE ANSWER IS NO.

THE NEWLY REDESIGNED WRAL

WEATHER APP COULD BE ONE

SOLUTION. WRAL'S BRIAN SHRADER

IS JOINING US NOW IN THE

NEWSROOM WITH A LOOK AT HOW TO

USE THIS APP AND ITS MOST

HELPFUL FEATURES. THERE ARE

MANY, BRIAN. ABSOLUTELY.

YOU KNOW, THIS IS THE MAIN PAGE

HAS BEEN REDESIGNED EASIER TO

USE. I THINK IN THIS SITUATION

THE RADAR IS GOING TO BE

ABSOLUTELY CRUCIAL TO WATCH

TONIGHT. THIS IS LIVE DUAL

DOPPLER 5,000 RADAR. AND IT'S

PRETTY EASY TO PUT ALL OF THE

LATEST WEATHER ALERTS ON THEIR

THIS SHOWS YOU WHERE THAT FLOOD

WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF

OUR WESTERN VIEWING AREA.

THE PINK HERE, THAT'S A SEVERE

THUNDERSTORM WATCH ALL OF THOSE

LITTLE PULSATING DOTS THERE.

THAT'S LIVE LIGHTNING DATA.

AND THEN YOU HAVE ALL OF THESE

BURGUNDY BOXES. THOSE ARE FLASH

FLOOD WARNINGS. SO THIS IS A

GREAT WAY TO TRACK STORMS WHEN

THEY COME THROUGH. BUT AS WE'RE

TALKING ABOUT STORMS COMING

THROUGH OVERNIGHT.

>> THAT'S A PARTICULARLY

DANGEROUS AND YOU NEED TO HAVE

A WAY TO GET ALERTS THAT WILL

WAKE YOU UP IN THE MIDDLE OF

THE NIGHT TO THE MOST IMPORTANT

THING THAT YOU CAN DO WHEN YOU

DOWNLOAD THAT NEW WRAL WEATHER

APP IS GO DOWN HERE TO MORE

AND THEN SELECT CUSTOMIZED

ALERTS AND TURN ON YOUR CURRENT

LOCATION. THAT ENSURES THAT YOU

WILL GET THOSE ALERTS SENT

DIRECTLY TO YOUR PHONE FROM

THE WRAL WEATHER APP. THIS IS