Get the ultimate all-hazard app for weather safety with the American Red Cross Emergency app. Access short guides to help you prepare, receive NOAA extreme weather alerts, view live weather maps, and find open Red Cross shelters and services near you.
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 a tornado, hurricane, wildfire, earthquake, flood, severe thunderstorm, and more.
• During: Monitor severe weather and protect yourself and your loved ones with notifications, weather maps, and live updates with local radar. Get over 50 customizable NOAA weather alerts on your device 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 to everyone. It is free and available in both English and Spanish.
Emergency app features:
Real-Time Severe Weather Alerts
• Get official NOAA alerts when severe weather threatens your area
• Live notifications for tornadoes, hurricanes, severe thunderstorms, floods, and more
• Customize alerts by location and hazard type to meet your needs
Extreme Weather & Hazard Monitoring
• Track major weather events in your area
• Monitor hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, and more
• Receive real-time updates to help you stay informed and safe
Live Alerts & Storm Tracking
• Follow storm paths and stay ahead of severe weather
• Doppler radar keeps you updated on storm and weather changes
Beyond 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 a wildfire, tornado, hurricane, flood, and earthquake
• Designed with accessibility in mind and compatible with your phone’s built-in assistive technologies
• The Emergency app is free and available in English and Spanish
Get the ultimate all-hazard app for you and your loved ones. Download the Emergency app today.
I love the newest features of having emergency plans and checklists within the app itself! Personally I have been using this app for the past couple of years to receive alerts, for my area as well as for friends and family, and then be able to forward those alerts to them. I love how how you can also have your preparedness plans and checklists on the app itself! Also love the learning modules! Highly recommend as I’m extremely happy with the app’s performance and especially with the newest features!
Absolute trash
Bpace2222222
This is making me incredibly frustrated. This is two times within a week that i have been in a tornado warning location with not a single warning from this app… on anyone’s phone! The tornado warning a week ago actually produced a tornado on the ground and without someone watching the news randomly at my daughters dance class no one would have known! Tonight thank God my husband was watching the news and there was a tornado warning for our location 30 minutes before your measly little warning came out. If i hadn’t of already been awake i would not have even heard that little notification. It sounded the exact same as the notification for a thunderstorm warning! What happened to the blaring siren y’all used to put out with the guy saying “tornado warning” with it?! Fix your issues… if you’re supposed to be an emergency notification app maybe it would be important to announce those emergencies properly.
Great App
ChristyHolli
I absolutely love this app. We’ve had a bit of weird weather lately that requires seeking shelter, and while I hate the feeling I get from the loud alarm sound from a tornado warning on here, it is 100% appreciated because it could wake me from a dead sleep in time to get kids and pets to safety. The radius recommendations are perfect. The thought process behind the features on this app are comforting and appropriate. I recommend this app for all my family and friends.
Alerts don’t Alert
TranquilityValley
In previous iterations on this app, my wife and I have appreciated and come to rely on it for notifications of impending severe weather. However, it would seems that alerts for major incidences no longer sound an alarm, which is a vital function of one is sleeping. I would question my phone set up, but both of our phones are set to sound, and neither did. Additionally, when checking the app, it would state that we had no alerts for our area. But closing the app and restarting it would cause it to then pick up the alerts that had been in place for some time. Bottom line- it isn’t reliable.
We’re always making changes and improvements to the American Red Cross Emergency app. In this release, we have done some general maintenance and bug fixes.
Version 5.0.1
The developer, American Red Cross, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
Location
User Content
Identifiers
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
Usage Data
Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
The developer indicated that this app supports the following accessibility features. Learn More