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if you want an all-in-one app with a lot of weather data check out storm the high-rez radar gives you animations of past present and future storm activity the storm tracks feature is the highlight giving you details of storms coming your way if all you want is a simple no frills solution to know if bad weather is on the way download the NOAA weather alerts app the app lets you set custom alerts for weather conditions so first you'll set a radius of up to 100 miles then choose the alerts you care about there are plenty of options from tornadoes to snowstorms frost advisories and hundreds more some of us are really into radar maps if that's you my radar is a well designed app that lets you set customized animated radar maps you can keep it simple or you can overlay different maps for more detail about cloud cover and even track an airplane on its flight path in San Francisco I'm Sharon Profis cnet.com for CBS News