Emergency: Severe Weather App

4.4
2.3K reviews
1L+
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Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

Get the ultimate all-hazard app for weather safety with the American Red Cross Emergency app. The Emergency app can help you and your loved ones before, during, and after a disaster.

• Before: The best time to get ready is before a disaster happens. That's why the app features step-by-step guides to help you prepare for tornadoes, hurricanes, wildfires, earthquakes, severe weather, and much more.
• During: Monitor severe weather and protect yourself and your loved ones with notifications, weather maps, and live updates. Get over 50 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.
• After: If a disaster impacts your location, you can easily find open Red Cross shelters and services available near you.

The Emergency app is accessible for everyone. It is free and available in both English and Spanish.

EMERGENCY APP FEATURES:

WEATHER ALERTS
• NOAA weather alerts signal severe weather
• Get tornado warnings, hurricane alerts, 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
• Hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, and more – the Emergency app has you covered
• Monitor severe weather seamlessly and stay up to date with real-time alerts

LIVE STORM TRACKING
• The Emergency app 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 and services available near you with our interactive map
• Step-by-step guides help you prepare
• Create personalized plans for wildfires, tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, and earthquakes
• Our free weather app works with your phone's accessibility features for a customized experience
• The Emergency app is available in both English and Spanish
Get the ultimate all-hazard app for you and your family. Download the Emergency app today for top weather safety features and severe weather monitoring when you need it.
Updated on
13 Jun 2025

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
No data shared with third parties
Learn more about how developers declare sharing
This app may collect these data types
Location, Personal info and 4 others
Data is encrypted in transit
Data can’t be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.4
2.25K reviews
L Arnold
8 June 2025
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.
7 people found this review helpful
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Rick Carter
15 December 2024
App ignores turning off "Notify With Sound" for individual alerts. I have two locations set, one where I live and one where we have a cabin. I generally don't need the Emergency alert sound for any but the most critical alerts at the cabin. So I turned off "Notify with sound" for some advisory alerts there... and they still come in with the Emergency app sound. I want to know if we have a Winter Weather Advisory here urgently; for the cabin, it's nice to just notice it at some point.
21 people found this review helpful
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Bonnie Pabst
11 June 2025
Never goes off. it is set to follow me, we had a tornado within a couple miles of us, sirens were going off but not out apps. we haven't gotten a warning for nothing since the app change from the red cross app. contacted support both times but nothing but excuses or nothing was happening in my area, I would say a tornado 2 miles away in the same city and county would justify a warning. Useless app!
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What's new

In this release, we improved the way we display Red Cross shelters and identify whether shelters are pet friendly.