Emergency: Severe Weather App

I live in an area that was having some unusual tornado activity in the summer of 2025, and one time a tornado touched down near where I live, and I got a tornado warning on my phone, and I live on the second floor of an apartment building, so it’s extremely important that we get alerts fast. Luckily, this amazing app gave us a warning ~10 minutes before it got close, so we could get to shelter. The tornado ended up passing right next to us, and we were 100% in the bear’s cage. If you don’t know what that is then look it up. If we weren’t so lucky, the alert being later and the tornado hitting us, it would’ve been much worse. This app saves lives and it is essential for anyone living where the app is compatible.

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.

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!