Emergency: Severe Weather App

American Red Cross

About this app

American Red Cross Emergency App

Prepare to protect yourself and your loved ones with expert tips, real-time alerts and easy-to-use tools.

Extreme weather and disasters are happening more often. The Emergency app helps you stay safe before, during and after a disaster.

With the Emergency app, you can:
• Get prepared with short guides, interactive games and personalized checklists
• Receive official National Weather Service (NOAA) alerts right on your phone
• Use real-time weather maps and hurricane tracking
• Find help after a disaster by locating Red Cross shelters and services

The Emergency app is free, available in English and Spanish and works with your phone’s built-in accessibility features.

Key Features

Real-Time Severe Weather Alerts
• Get official NOAA alerts when severe weather threatens your area
• Receive notifications for tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, severe thunderstorms and more
• Customize alerts by location and hazard type

Extreme Weather and Hazard Monitoring
• Track major weather events in your area
• Monitor hurricanes, floods, tornadoes and other hazards
• Get real-time updates to help you stay informed and safe

Live Alerts and Storm Tracking
• Follow storm paths as weather changes
• View live weather maps, including Doppler radar

More Than a Weather App
• Find open Red Cross shelters and disaster services sites with an interactive map
• Prepare with step-by-step guides and personalized checklists
• Designed with accessibility in mind, and is compatible with your phone’s built-in assistive technologies
• Free and available in English and Spanish

Get the all-hazards app you can trust. Download the Red Cross Emergency app today.

Ratings and reviews

I love this app. I travel for work and not familiar with all areas. However, you use to be able to set a radius or specific miles away from your location. Now Im getting tornado warnings that are not near me in the middle of the night while sleeping for areas I have locations set in. These warnings are for places over an hour away. Please brimg back the ability to set ranges. I have also went in a turned off/modified alerts and it doesnt save my preferences. This needs to be fixed also.

No longer supports adding locations outside the US. This defeats the WHOLE PURPOSE of the app for me personally. International locations do show up in the list of options, but you can't actually add them. Says something like "no monitored zones for this location." I don't understand how all of the sudden this feature is no longer available. What a shame.

I wish the app had a way to configure sound and turn off non-critical sound alerts during certain hours, like the hours when I'm sleeping. It woke me up to tell it will be snowing heavily at 7,000 feet, which I'm well below. I don't need to be woken up for that. But I want the app on in the event a critical, life-threating emergency occurs in the middle of the night such as needing to evacuate or prepare immediately, etc., etc.

What’s new

We’re always making changes and improvements to the Emergency app. In this release, we have done some general maintenance and bug fixes.