Emergency: Severe Weather App
Description
American Red Cross Emergency App Prepare to protect yourself and your loved ones with expert tips, real-time alerts and easy-to-use tools. Extreme weather and disasters are happening more often. The Emergency app helps you stay safe before, during and after a disaster. With the Emergency app, you can: • Get prepared with short guides, interactive games and personalized checklists • Receive official National Weather Service (NOAA) alerts right on your phone • Use real-time weather maps and hurricane tracking • Find help after a disaster by locating Red Cross shelters and services The Emergency app is free, available in English and Spanish and works with your phone’s built-in accessibility features. Key Features Real-Time Severe Weather Alerts • Get official NOAA alerts when severe weather threatens your area • Receive notifications for tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, severe thunderstorms and more • Customize alerts by location and hazard type Extreme Weather and Hazard Monitoring • Track major weather events in your area • Monitor hurricanes, floods, tornadoes and other hazards • Get real-time updates to help you stay informed and safe Live Alerts and Storm Tracking • Follow storm paths as weather changes • View live weather maps, including Doppler radar More Than a Weather App • Find open Red Cross shelters and disaster services sites with an interactive map • Prepare with step-by-step guides and personalized checklists • Designed with accessibility in mind, and is compatible with your phone’s built-in assistive technologies • Free and available in English and Spanish Get the all-hazards app you can trust. Download the Red Cross Emergency app today.
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.
Details
- Developer
- American Red Cross
- Main Category
- Weather
- Version
- 5.2.1
- Version Release
- 2026-05-05
- Initial Release
- 2015-04-14
- Size
- 158 MB
- Age Rating
- 9+
- Price
- Free
- Languages
- EN
- Bundle ID
- org.redcross.hazards
- Version Rating
- ★ 4.84 (7,089)
- First Seen
- 2026-05-28
Metadata updated 2026-07-19
Rank History
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Competitive Benchmark — Weather Top 10
What it takes to beat this app — comparison with the category's top apps. The orange row is the current app.
| # | App | Price | Rating | Ratings | Langs | Last Update |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | EPA AIRNow | Free | ★ 3.14 | 553 | 1 | 2026-06-22 |
| 2 | IQAir AirVisual | Air Quality | Free | ★ 4.81 | 42,853 | 20 | 2026-04-10 |
| 3 | The Weather Channel - Radar | Free | ★ 4.76 | 5,928,035 | 33 | 2026-07-08 |
| 4 | RainDrop - Rain Totals & Radar | Free | ★ 4.71 | 20,394 | 1 | 2026-07-15 |
| 5 | AccuWeather: Weather Forecast | Free | ★ 4.59 | 1,496,259 | 55 | 2026-07-09 |
| 6 | NOAA Weather Radar Live Map | Free | ★ 4.56 | 11,427 | 12 | 2026-07-13 |
| 7 | WeatherBug: Weather Forecast | Free | ★ 4.78 | 2,168,387 | 6 | 2026-07-18 |
| 8 | MyRadar Accurate Weather Radar | Free | ★ 4.85 | 1,074,921 | 9 | 2026-07-14 |
| 9 | My Lightning Tracker & Alerts | Free | ★ 4.76 | 63,956 | 12 | 2026-07-02 |
| 10 | Clime: NOAA Weather Radar Live | Free | ★ 4.47 | 1,046,375 | 18 | 2026-06-15 |
| 57 | Emergency: Severe Weather App | Free | ★ 4.84 | 7,089 | 1 | 2026-05-05 |
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User Reviews
I love this app because I can be prepared for severe weather and take cover.
such a good app helps you with weather conditions and what you know customize your location and tell you exactly what to do during that alert. It is a great app. I recommend getting it to my personal. It also gives you alert on how to prepare for each storm really good
It helps me know if a disaster is coming it gives me alerts like how national weather service gives us alerts on iphone iPad and computer
You’re waking me up at night for an air quality alert? Fire, tornado, flood, yes. Please wake me so I can save my life or home. But please give me the option to turn off sounds for non life threatening events without turning the sound off for everything.
The issue with long duration emergencies is that there is no way to acknowledge and stop the notifications for these. For example, we are under an extreme heat warning and it keeps sending me alerts every few minutes, sometimes for days. It’s become “cry wolf” and I am just ignoring all notifications from this app and ready to turn them ALL off because it’s unnecessary to keep notifying me. I wish I could tick a box about these and they would stop sending notifications, but it’s all or nothing.
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.
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!
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 !
When the alarm in the app went off on 6/11/26 in NWI, there was time to seek shelter. I never heard my city tornado alarms. This app can save lives!
Alert went off for a tornado watch, never updated when it was upgraded to a tornado warning. One of the most important alerts you should get
Love the alerts which are loud enough to wake me up. Love being able to see family’s locations in other cities in real time.
I wish I could zoom in close
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