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.

This app used to work great but I noticed recently with the extreme heat as of late that I should have gotten notifications for the associated heat advisory like I always used to. The alerts show inside the app & all notifications are turned on, battery optimization is turned off (ie set to unrestricted). I checked everything. Still no notifications. If I can't receive notifications from this, then there's no point in having it. 2 different phones have the same result. Please fix & I'll update.

Ovwrall I like the app. However, the emergency alerts go off constantly with no way, that I can find, to adjust the frequency of the alerts. I don't want to turn them off entirely, I just don't need an alert EVERY time the duration of a storm/heat advisory/whatever changes slightly. I don't need 10+ alerts in one day for the same event.

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.