Emergency: Severe Weather App 4+

Alerts, Maps, Radar & Shelters

American Red Cross

    • Free

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Description

Monitor severe weather and protect yourself and your loved ones with alerts, weather maps, and live updates.

Get the ultimate all-hazard app for weather safety with Emergency by the American Red Cross.
The best time to get ready is before a disaster happens. That's why Emergency features step-by-step guides to help you prepare for wildfires, earthquakes, severe weather, and much more. With a dynamic to-do list, you'll know what actions to take to get ready. And if a disaster impacts your location, you can easily find open Red Cross shelters with our interactive map.
Monitor severe weather and protect yourself and your loved ones with notifications, weather maps, and live updates. Receive NOAA weather alerts when you need them most. Emergency enables you to select which alerts are your highest priority and should override Do Not Disturb. Stay safe with the help of Emergency.
Emergency provides alerts for storms, wildfire weather, earthquakes, floods, and more. Get over 40 customizable NOAA weather alerts on your device. Choose how you would like to receive each alert for your home location, live location, and eight additional locations.

Enjoy a local weather app that's accessible and made for everyone. Emergency is free and available in both English and Spanish.

EMERGENCY FEATURES

EMERGENCY ALERTS
· NOAA weather alerts signal severe weather
· Get tornado warnings, storm alerts, flood alerts and more
· Customize alerts and notifications to your needs

NATURAL HAZARD MONITORING
· Stay safe during severe weather and natural hazards impacting your location
· Earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, and more – Emergency has you covered
· Monitor severe weather seamlessly and stay up to date with real-time alerts

LIVE STORM TRACKING
· Emergency tracks storms and severe weather at every moment
· Doppler radar keeps you up to date on storm and weather changes

MORE THAN JUST A WEATHER TRACKER
· Find open Red Cross shelters with our interactive map
· Step-by-step guides help you prepare
· See a wildfire risk map for your area and create a personalized wildfire plan
· Our free weather app works with your phone's accessibility features for a customized experience
· Emergency is available in both English and Spanish

Get the ultimate all-hazard app for you and your family. Download Emergency today for top weather safety features and severe weather monitoring when you need it.

What’s New

Version 4.9

This release includes new tornado features to help you prepare. You can now
• See your state’s tornado risk
• Create a personalized tornado plan
• Practice tornado skills with games

Ratings and Reviews

3.1 out of 5
862 Ratings

862 Ratings

FAD Mom ,

Alerts needs some work

I like the app, but the alert sounds are driving me crazy. I think there may be some bugs in the system. The alert sound is VERY loud, even when I have my phone on low volume or on silent. I’ve been getting multiple alerts over and over for the last 24 hours for the same snowstorm. Last night, I went on and turned sound alerts turned off except for critical alerts and today I am again (with my phone on silent) getting extremely loud alerts. They are now labeled ‘critical’ but there is no difference between the alerts I was getting yesterday. Even changing snowfall from 4-7 inches to 6-9 inches (or vice versa) shouldn’t warrant a new critical alert.

I want to turn the alerts completely off, but am then afraid that I will miss a new, critical, alert such as a tornado warning when the season comes.

Critical should be immediate and life threatening. Period.

Amber611 ,

Great but needs work on the locations/radius!

Great app, and I love the fact that I can monitor multiple things in just one app, but it needs some work! I wish the locations and radius were better, like in the Tornado app!! This app includes the entire county for a location, not just specific zip codes which I think is better!! Especially when dealing with tropical systems like hurricanes, as my inland area often has different advisories/watches/warnings than my county’s coastal areas (speaking from nearly 40yrs of living in South FL!)!!! Plus it doesn’t even include smaller towns, and you can’t even edit your radius!!!! I monitor all of my family’s locations (and I have a lot!), and some friends too. Well for instance one family member lives in the Upper FL Keys, and you don’t even have their island when I tried to add it! In the tornado app you do have their island, but this app doesn’t AND includes the Entire FL Keys when adding an Upper Key you do have!🤦🏻‍♀️ Which when dealing with tropical systems like I mentioned earlier is NOT good, especially as The Lower, Middle & Upper Key’s are often spilt into different watches/warnings!! So I would appreciate fixing that please, especially before hurricane season!!! Other than that great job!!!!👍

Monsta_0 ,

Spams your phone constantly over nothing

I installed this because the far-superior Tornado app is being discontinued. This worthless piece of junk immediately started blowing up my phone every day, sometimes twice a day, with screeching emergency notifications complete with siren because of a “heat event” (temperatures over 99) that is being forecast for more than a week from now.

Noisy, intrusive notifications EVERY DAY, not because of an approaching tornado, not because of an imminent severe thunderstorm, but just because the weather is going to be a little hotter than usual more than a week from now. The app treats every little thing like a screaming emergency — after all this crying wolf, it is useless for a real emergency. And turning off notifications defeats the entire point of having the app.

Typical that the excellent Tornado app is thrown in the garbage so it can be replaced with a useless showpiece like this one that was put together with absolutely no idea of actual utility or of genuinely making people safer. But hey, someone’s crony got a fat contract out of it and who cares about those rubes in flyover country anyway, right?

App Privacy

The developer, American Red Cross, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

Data Linked to You

The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:

  • Location
  • User Content
  • Identifiers

Data Not Linked to You

The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:

  • Usage Data
  • Diagnostics

Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More

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