Faulty Push Notifications for Emergency Weather Apps

There are several weather related 3rd party apps being sold in the Apple App Store that offer to provide push notifications in the event of severe weather at the iPhone users location. However, I believe these apps are NOT pushing the warning out to users immediately when the National Weather Service issues the warning.
I suspect it is due to how the app developers are handling (and footing the cost) of pushing the data. Many times the warning notification comes AFTER a storm has passed.
This is extremely dangerous and it would be appreciated if Apple could investigate this problem, which could serve to help public safety.

This is a potential public saftey issue, in which I would hope Apple would consider. App developers will listen to Apple, not one lonely customer.
I am just glad that I know not to depend upon these apps. After trying several of the weather warning apps in the store, none pushed a warning until the storm was almost over. Where I live is tornados and hail are common, it would be nice to have reliable push warnings on a phone, especially during sleeping hours. I also don't think Devs should be making $ off of unreliable warnings.

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