Emergency: Severe Weather App

American Red Cross

About this app

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. Emergency is the free weather app that helps you prepare for tornadoes, hurricanes, wildfires, 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.

Tropical storm or hurricane, Emergency provides you with severe weather updates and notifications to keep you and your loved ones safe. Receive earthquake alerts, flood warnings, and 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 tornadoes, storms, wildfires, and more. Monitor severe weather with hurricane tracker warnings and 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 WEATHER ALERTS
· NOAA weather alerts signal severe weather
· Get notified about hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes and more
· Storm warnings and severe weather alerts can be customized to your needs

NATURAL HAZARD MONITORING
· Stay safe during natural hazards impacting your location
· Tornadoes, earthquakes, wildfires, floods, 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
· Our hurricane tracker lets you monitor storm severity so you can stay safe

MORE THAN JUST A WEATHER TRACKER
· Find open Red Cross shelters with our interactive weather 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 severe weather safety features and monitoring when you need it.

Ratings and reviews

I've received MANY warnings about heavy snow *above 3,500 feet* in the mountains. I live at around 200 feet; it's currently rainy and 50 degrees. Zero snow. And then there's the flood alerts 50..100 miles away, other side of a mountain range. The alerts 'cry wolf' and are useless-to-me spam; by the time a relevant-to-me alert happens, my alerts will long since be off. Needs filter options in 100' to 500' increments; you set the max. altitude you care about. Ditto areas.

I really wish there was a way to give zero stars because this app needs it. I don't receive many notifications for locations that are set, and the ones that I do get come after the event that it's warning me about. Also, every time I try to open the map, the app crashes. I used to love this app before they changed it. They need to go back to the original app. It worked a whole heck of a lot better. Do better!

The app isn't reliable! I am in the middle of a severe thunderstorm right now and I haven't received any notification about the storm. I received notifications from other sources about the current weather that's happening. Why I'm not able to receive notifications from this app is very concerning, being this is the main weather app that I normally rely on.

What's new

In this release, we made changes to the extreme cold alerts to align with the National Weather Service.