# Emergency: Severe Weather App

> Alerts, Maps, Radar & Shelters

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id954783878](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id954783878)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id954783878`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** American Red Cross
- **Category:** Weather
- **Rating:** 4.80 / 5 (7,651 ratings)
- **Version:** 5.4.0
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-27
- **First published:** 2015-04-14
- **Size:** 149 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-18
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/emergency-severe-weather-app/id954783878)
- **Website:** [http://www.redcross.org/apps](http://www.redcross.org/apps)
- **Privacy policy:** [http://www.redcross.org/privacy-policy](http://www.redcross.org/privacy-policy)

## Description

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.

## Rankings

- #20,394 — Overall

## Review summary

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.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id954783878)