The NBC DFW app delivers Dallas-Fort Worth weather, North Texas news, and breaking news alerts in one local news app. Get real-time DFW weather updates, live weather radar, and a free 24/7 live news stream for Dallas, Fort Worth, and North Texas.
Stay connected with Dallas-Fort Worth local news from NBC5 DFW, covering Dallas, Fort Worth, Arlington, Plano, Irving, Frisco, Denton, McKinney, and communities across North Texas. Get accurate DFW weather forecasts from the NBC5 Weather Experts, plus live radar and severe weather alerts to help you stay safe.
Dallas-Fort Worth & North Texas Weather
+ Customizable DFW weather home screen with dynamic weather modules
+ Advanced location hub to track multiple North Texas weather locations
+ Live S-Band weather radar for Dallas-Fort Worth and North Texas
+ Exclusive weather coverage from Texas Thunder Truck and Texas StormRanger X-Band radar
+ 10-day DFW weather forecast from the NBC5 Weather Experts
+ Hourly Dallas-Fort Worth weather forecasts with interactive graphs
+ Detailed North Texas weather maps, radar, and live conditions
+ Local weather data including UV index, air quality, and severe weather updates
+ Real-time weather alerts for Dallas, Fort Worth, and nearby North Texas areas
+ Hurricane updates, storm tracking, and severe weather coverage
+ School closings and delays across the DFW area
+ Weather videos from NBC5 DFW meteorologists
Weather Widget & Experience
+ Add the DFW weather widget to your Home Screen
+ Real-time weather conditions synced to your location
+ Tap widgets for full Dallas-Fort Worth weather forecasts and radar
+ Customizable weather modules and improved navigation
DFW News Alerts
+ Personalized alerts for DFW breaking news, Dallas news, Fort Worth news, national news, and world news
+ Daily top stories covering North Texas news, politics, weather, and consumer alerts
+ Live news feed with the latest Dallas-Fort Worth news articles and videos
+ Alerts center for the most important breaking news in North Texas
+ Trending section featuring popular DFW news and local topics
+ Video Shorts section on the home screen featuring quick local news videos from NBC5 DFW journalists
NBC DFW News 24/7 Streaming Channel
+ Free 24/7 live NBC DFW news streaming channel
+ Watch live NBC5 DFW newscasts anytime
+ Live coverage of breaking news in Dallas, Fort Worth, and North Texas
+ Local weather, special coverage, and community video content
+ On-demand video hub with the latest North Texas news videos
Create an NBC DFW Account
+ Save and bookmark DFW news articles and videos
+ Sync preferences and newsletter subscriptions across NBC platforms
NBC5 DFW I-Team Investigations & More
+ Investigative Dallas-Fort Worth news reports from award-winning NBC5 journalists
+ NBC5 Responds reports that help recover money for North Texas viewers
+ Submit your local news and weather photos
+ Local and regional sports news
+ Business news, finance updates, and stock market news from CNBC
+ Entertainment and celebrity news from E!
+ Lifestyle stories from TODAY and NBC programming
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I wrote this months ago and thought I had posted it then, but found I had not. My opinion of this app has not changed. It is great, easy to use, and still has excellent videos, alerts, remote footage, etc. I am sorry I failed to post this at that time: After living in Arlington for 10 years, we moved back to Wichita Falls. As we still have family in the DFW area, when severe weather broke out right above our grand-daughter’s apartment, I went right to live feed of the area on the local NBC app. Felt much better after watching the live feed for awhile and put the app on my phone. Thanks to this great, clear app, we have peace of mind as we check it quite often, especially when something’s amiss in her area. Up til now, we’ve never had any issues when using this app and commend them for the live feed, esp the good quality of the video within minutes of the severe tornado in the past year that caused quite a lot of destruction. Their chopper’s fly-overs while checking the destruction in the days following was always very clear and commend their chopper pilot for the steady flying.
This app is almost perfect but not quite
I love the idea behind this app but the execution is just not there. You can’t do anything without the live stream of NBC freaking out! I wanted to adjust my screens light so I pulled down the utilities menu on my phone. When I slid up it sent me straight back to the home page of the app. I went back to watch the stream and it came up with a service error, which always happens. I refresh it and it normally will work but it’s more than just trying to adjust something and the app reopening. I like to rotate and expand my videos but it is so fidgety!! There is no place to rotate the screen or zoom in/ out, therefore you can’t see the titles on news broadcasts, almost all of the time. It is so frustrating that I can’t manually press a rotation button. I’m left with it broadcasted tiny on the upper part of my screen because even when it does rotate to be bigger it almost always will go back to its small size on the upper half of my phone, even when in a horizontal position. Oh and when it falls flat on a surface it does the same thing. As I have said previously, the idea is great but the little errors get super frustrating and the videos don’t load 80% of the time... I’ll still keep this app but with a little frustration. It could all be due to maybe a new update needed or something.
Staff and news coverage
Dr. R Edwards
This is the only news channel we watch every a.m every evening we have watched it for years. I like everyone on the news. After a.m news we never miss the today show either. Some anchors left some retired and some passed still miss them. Really miss Cathy Gifford. The staff keeps the news interesting and informs you of many things. Love how the today show always brings new things like training the puppy until it leaves for a forever home. Will continue with channel 5 when you have the best why change?Thank you to all staff for all you do to keep the news interesting and us well informed.I also have the app on my phone and if I am away from home I go the app I love itOnly thing I would like changed is to be able to make comments but, for whatever reason it always says this site is not available.
Failing to Load, devs trying to kill an app?? 🤔
Cirikkati
The last 2-3 updates have completely made the app unusable. For pretext I set up my app to load in the weather section with what used to be a “live radar,” the NBC 5 radar. Since NBC DFW owns and operates their own radar it means that they are able to directly publish new radar data every minute. This is what brought me to the app, as nbc’s data will be the most updated and reliable source. About one or two updates ago some change made the radar almost unusable and seemed to inhibit the app refreshing and loading new data. The most recent update has actually made the app unusable, nothing is loading in! I constantly get a “URLSessionTask failed with error: The request timed out.” on my screen before the app can even load in one piece of data. I’ve forced the app closed multiple times to reopen it to no avail and have uninstalled twice now as well. NBC 5 your app just kept getting worse over time and you finally have tried to kill it. Hopefully your dev team can get stuff back on track.P.s. like lots of other comments, GET RID OF THE ADS DURING BREAKING NEWS OR WEATHER EVENTS. K thx byeee.
Developer Response
Thank you for your feedback! We’re sorry you’ve experienced issues with our app and radar. We just released a new version, which includes fixes for the problems you’ve flagged. We hope you will update the app and continue to use it. Thanks again!😊
Weather Widgets have arrived
- Add Small or Medium widgets to get current conditions right on your Home Screen.
- Widgets always match the location you chose in the app—update it in-app and your widget stays in sync.
- Tap any widget to dive into the full forecast.
- Video Shorts are now available on both the Video page and the homepage for quick, easy viewing.
Plus: a refreshed Weather experience with customizable modules, clearer type + icons, a better location hub, streamlined radar layers, and updated alert settings
Please rate our app in the App Store and send your feedback to KXASdigitalfeedback@nbcuni.com.
Version 8.8
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Information
Seller
NBCUniversal Media, LLC
Size
224.2 MB
Category
News
Compatibility
Requires iOS 16.6 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 16.6 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 16.6 or later.
Apple Vision Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
Apple TV Requires tvOS 16.0 or later.
Location
This app may use your location even when it isn’t open, which can decrease device battery life.
Infrequent Profanity or Crude Humor Mature or Suggestive Themes Alcohol, Tobacco, Drug Use or References Sexual Content or Nudity Guns or Other Weapons
Contains Advertising User-Generated Content Health or Wellness Topics