Emergency: Severe Weather App

Name: Emergency: Severe Weather App
Rating: 4.8 (7007 reviews)
Author: American Red Cross

By: American Red Cross

Alerts, Maps, Radar & Shelters

Features & Capabilities

American Red Cross Emergency App delivers official NOAA alerts, real-time weather maps, Doppler radar tracking, and shelter locations to help you stay safe before, during, and after disasters.

It includes interactive prep guides, personalized checklists, and accessibility features, with bilingual support (English and Spanish). Best of all, the app is free to download.

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By:

American Red Cross

Rating:

4.80

(7,007) 67 new ratings

Version:

5.2.1 Last updated: 2026-05-05

Version code:

885132462

Creation date:

2015-04-14

Compatible devices:

Size:

157.51MB

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-07-10

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 21,670 ▲ 230

Other platforms

Emergency: Severe Weather App (v5.2.1)

553,645 4.51

(2,886)

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Developed by:

American Red Cross

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/emergency-severe-weather-app/id954783878

Website:

http://www.redcross.org/apps

User Reviews

Users praise the app for timely, life-saving alerts and silent-mode override, plus ease of use and broad weather coverage. However, multiple reviews cite reliability problems (missed alerts), excessive or duplicate notifications, loss of radius customization, and occasional failures of audible critical alerts. Addressing notification reliability, reducing duplicates, restoring radius controls, and ensuring audible warnings would make the app more consistently dependable for tornado and winter-weather warnings.

Pros

Alerts override silent/Do Not Disturb mode to deliver warnings.
Provides timely, life-saving severe weather alerts that help families stay safe.
User-friendly and easy to use interface.
Useful for a range of weather contexts, including tornadoes and winter storms.

Cons

Push notifications are unreliable or delayed, with users reporting not receiving alerts during severe weather.
Alerts can be overly frequent, duplicated, or loud, leading to annoyance or alert fatigue.
Radius-based warning customization was removed or reduced in updates, reducing the app's targeting accuracy.
Occasionally, critical alerts do not sound or break through other audio settings, undermining their effectiveness.

Recent reviews

This all is honestly worth it cause it shows where is affected. Even though it scares the life out of me when the alarm goes off, it’s useful AF, 5 stars.

by TG*****, 2026-06-27

I set this up to notify me of tornado warnings. Well, we had a tornado warning and it did nothing. Thanks for risking my life! Do better!

by Po*****, 2026-06-18

I just installed this and set everything up to alert me of a tornado warning and tens minutes later they issued a tornado warning and not one single alert from this app ! Glad my wives phone alerted us with her weather app this app failed miserably! Don’t rely on this with your life it will fail you !