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

It's nice to know about alerts in your area, but they can be excessive. I have recieved 10 notifications for the same thunder storm with potential flooding shotgun the last 4 hours when 2 would have been sufficient. I had to turn the wind advisory and red flag warnings off completely. Seemed like nonstop notifications. Update: I can't turn off the thunderstorm notifications. I've tried dozens of times. I'm deleting the app.

Whoever decided to change the app needs to be trained or fired. There is no longer a tornado siren to alert for tornadoes. IF it goes off at all, for ANY alert, it's delayed and sounds like a text alert. That won't get my attention if I'm sleeping. I'm lucky enough to get alerts from local TV stations, but others may not be that fortunate. My settings for alert types and locations are fine. My location has had a severe Tstorm watch since 12:36, and it's currently 12:47 and no notification yet.

A good app overall. I thank the Red Cross, it's important. I took off one star just because it's so difficult to get all the notifications set up, there's so many of them. I have 2 locations I watch. Each location has over 50 sliders with 2 or three sliders within each of those. There needs to be a simplification of the notifications system.

What's new

With this release, we made it easier to connect with disaster services offered by the American Red Cross. If a disaster has impacted your location or one of your monitored locations, and the Red Cross has opened service sites within a 50-mile radius, the Emergency app will notify you with a banner. Tap the banner to understand the services offered, location, and hours of operation. You can get directions to these sites and share them with friends and family.