Emergency: Severe Weather App

American Red Cross

About this app

The Partnership for Inclusive Disaster Strategies members, we have partnered with the American Red Cross to help you prepare.

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.

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.