Emergency: Severe Weather App Reviews

by CascadeHikingGuy

We had a 4.7 Earthquake wake us up at 2:51 am in WA this morning. It was strong enough to wake to shake the house big time. With a strong aftershock. About 10 minutes later we got the Alert from Emergency. The primary use case of Emergency is to warn of an this app so we can take action before it hits us and it failed. I realize it probably didn’t receive its data in time due to other 3 rd party systems. But the bottlenecks need to be identified and fixed. That’s what the apps main value is and is advertised as.

by MAIRijuana

Looking for an app that can tell me realtime if anything is happening in the Azores Islands as I have a good deal of family there, as well as my fathers childhood home right on the coast of Sao Lourenço ... my fear has always been with hurricanes & tropical storms, tsunami, & volcanic activity ; & so I was referred to Emergency. Imagine my confusion, being told there was no results to my search while trying to add "Azores Islands" as a location to monitor ... they seem to include Madeira on the map, but no Azores... & everytime I tried to add a city in Portugal or Madeira (Lisbon, for example) it would give me Lisbon New York USA & all related search terms IN THE US -- & wouldn't allow me to monitor any part or portion of Portugal!!! What the heck?!! Emergency is pointless. I know all too much what's happening in the US, it's being shoved in my face from every direction; what I was looking for was information on THE WORLDS HAPPENINGS we don't hear about normally. Plz resolve this silly flaw

by Ubanium_Rosarium

Emergency changed from English to Spanish and there is no setting option to change it back and the link for App Support goes to a website that does nothing but list their other apps!

If there is an this app I don’t want to try and read the alert in a language I have a very small vocabulary in. Guess I should be glad they didn’t change it to one of the other predominant second languages in my state such as Russian, Chinese, or Vietnamese!

I will be letting Apple know that the required App Support link is worthless as the developer is not providing any avenue to support.

by Gummy Bear 1999

Okay, it’s a good weather app or whatever, it warns me of stuff I guess.

The notifications, oh my god, I literally just deleted Emergency because it threw like a dozen notifications at me in seconds causing my phone to almost buzz its way off the stand. I’m sick of it, please for the love of god why? I don’t understand it’s just so many notifications with the exact same message, idk if I did something wrong but I don’t even care anymore, I’m only making this one star so maybe someone can see it and be warned, but I’m just done!!!! It’s just so many notifications and it’s been happening so much good golly ;w;

by Anon4404

Emergency used to be great. Now, I’ve lost all my monitoring locations. No matter how many times I reenter them, they’re gone. Somehow, I am getting alerts, but I’m getting too many. I monitor a 5 mile radius and get 6-8 alerts for every event. So annoying. I will click on an alert to see it’s a warning area out of my monitored location. I back out of it to try and see which alert applies to me and they’re all gone. Emergency has become completely unreliable. If they won’t find updating it, it shouldn’t be on Emergency store so people can use reliable this app management methods.

by Miz Luv

This most recent update (3.11.0) wiped out all of my settings. I’m monitoring seven locations, all with different regional concerns and radii. Setting up these locations was already unnecessarily tedious and time-consuming, especially as they need to be carefully refined over time to minimize the many irrelevant alerts. And now they’re all gone. Poof. Same thing with the other two Red Cross apps I use. All personal monitoring settings completely wiped out. I am beyond dissatisfied. Useless.

by Jkv5

Over all this works fine but I don’t need a alert to tell me the alert as expired or a alert that tells me the storm that caused the alert has moved on or a alert that tell me a severe rain storm is going to cause flash flood.
Within 30 min I received 7 alerts about the status of the same storm cell. So frequent I disabled the alerts ....... so a program to alert that the alerts are disabled ...... see the problem?

by Pezworld

Yes, I realize it doesn’t rain very often in Southern California. It’s been raining. Why so many alerts? Every time the national weather service changes a few words on the area weather reports, I get an alert. The last straw was last night at 2:30 AM, when I was sound asleep, and when I have do not disturb for most of my apps. This thing made a loud noise that woke us both up. Just because they might’ve changed a word on the weather report. You need to tweak your app.

by MANGA ROCK WEBSITE GO

---Same Day
1.]I wanted Tornado alerts not Hurricane alerts. Please make the notifications setting less clutter looking.

2.]For the badges and all that’s great. But when I want to learn more about it you guys just make me retake the quiz again. I think once we earn it we should be allowed access to the connections we need in case of that this app, more information on how to deal with it, and the option to retake the quiz (and possibly the correct answers, if we already of the badge).

3.]For people with shaky hands or big fingers, please allow a dropdown or a type in function for the radius adjustment.

4.]If we download another app for emergencies. Because I saw you guys have a separate one of tornadoes but no tornado alert notification in this general app. Could you allow us to share information with it? So we don’t have to re-add everything again. Just an account and a free (no account) import and export option.

5.]Allow a change in measurements (metric & imperial) and temperature (Celsius & Fahrenheit). With the ability to monitor the miles and kilometers too.

I will continue to update this.

by Blah1468643780

I like Emergency , and it provides useful information while I am using it. What I don’t like, however, is receiving 15 notifications a day. Yes, I’m well aware we’re having a heatwave. One alert would have done, not (quite literally) 15. I’ve had to turn notifications off entirely because they became so frequent and intrusive. This makes Emergency less helpful, because now I won’t be able to receive the rare, useful notification.

by Skyflyin

The is a good app and I appreciate the timely warnings about severe weather and tornado watches and warnings. However, the inability to pinpoint the center of your warning area is frustrating. For example, I am about 30 miles from the center of the closest metro area. Now I get warnings from 60 miles away on the other side of town if I make my notification ring 30 miles wide. Hopefully they can fix that soon.

by Random_65143

If this this app Alert app is supposed to be all-purpose, the Wildfire functionality needs to be beefed up. Unfortunately the Red Cross “Wildfire” app no longer works under the new IOS, and, this all-purpose this app app doesn’t handle fires adequately.

Think about the Napa area fires this last October-what the functionality Emergency could have had that would have made things better for people who, it turned out, had little or no warning to evacuate from the fast-moving fires.

by I8lutfisk

Good for various alerts like fires, snow, rain, earthquakes, hurricanes, etc., but needs work.
It prompts you for people you care about in a particular town that you specify. But if you exit Emergency then those contacts are lost. Same with the “I’m safe” feature - great idea but in an this app I want the contacts loaded and ready so I can just send loved ones the message that I’m alright. Those contacts aren’t saved either. Otherwise good app.

by D. Hill

This application is a simple yet effective way to stay on top of potential hazardous situations that may affect you or your loved ones. Emergency makes it easy to set locations and the radius in which you would like to monitor around these set pinpoints. Emergency also provides useful information regarding emergencies in how to handle them including finding shelters and making an this app family plan.

by Ninobrown02

Should include active shooter or terrorist type events. Was in Vegas this weekend when the mass shooting happened. So should be able to report information on events like that. Provide information such as collection points, relocation points, family check-in capability....

by Kris0360

Where I live was hit by a devastating tornado last year and almost nobody in town received any weather alerts or if they did it was to late for them to take cover. There were many homes and lives lost that night. Since then we have all been searching for better apps to gives us alerts. I mean counting this one, I have 11 weather apps on my phone. That’s how traumatizing the events of last year were for myself and so many others. Out of all of my apps this is the ONLY ONE that sends me alerts consistently and early enough to prepare. If I do receive notifications from any of my other apps it is always well after I’ve already heard from this one. I have used our towns Facebook page to recommend this weather app to everyone so we can stay safe! ❤️

by Teeteeegee

Emergency makes us feel safe and has quizzes to train your brain and prepare you the event of an this app. Emergency also guides you to learning first aide. Emergency has a siren to warn your family of severe weather. After a severe storm there is an “I’m Safe” signal that your location is clear of storms. Congrats on a great app .

by TAKTALK

I strongly recommend using Emergency. We get alerts for all kinds of hazardous conditions, like wildfire or ice storms that allow us to prepare and evacuate if needed. When traveling, Emergency has alerted us to tornadoes and hailstorms so we could find shelter rather than drive into danger.

by Doc ICT

Emergency will monitor your moving location for emergencies that you have set up. You can also monitor the location of your family and friends or just select general locations. Emergency provides alerts for everything from tornado to air quality.
Red Cross has also added a robust this app training and quizzes to Emergency. Stay safe in grey skies and increase your preparedness in blue skies.

by Justsomeguy

Love Emergency! It gives me iPhone home screen banner alerts whenever any of my family members’ or friends’ areas are under weather threats. I love that! But the banners do not include the name of the monitored location. You have to click on the banner and launch Emergency just to find out which of your monitored locations the flood/storm/etc banner alert pertains to - a curious oversight. Nevertheless, i highly recommend Emergency.

by Mick Gator Fan

MAP is poor:
-When you select Map view, it shows you a very small area, and if you want to see the whole US, you have to fight with the map to get it to enlarge.
-It no longer responds when you try to change from a weather condition - I got no response to Wind Speed, Rain, Clouds, Radar, or anything else.

ALERTS have problems.
- When I use “current location”, I get alerts for events, including tornados, that are 70 miles away. Not very useful, so I removed the “current location” setting.
- My iPhone started shrieking about a tornado warning while I was driving - but the alert arrived 30 minutes after the alert was issued. It’s not easy to turn it off while driving, so I turned “Sounds” off because the alert often arrives too late to be useful anyway.

by J223b123

We live in a very rural area and Emergency work well for what we needed.. keeps up to date on weather changes and our family locations and more .. good app .. easy on the battery too..

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Emergency will monitor your moving location for emergencies that you have set up. You can also monitor the location of your family and friends or just select general locations. Emergency provides alerts for everything from tornado to air quality.
Red Cross has also added a robust this app training and quizzes to Emergency. Stay safe in grey skies and increase your preparedness in blue skies.

by Vv224

Emergency has notified me of weather changes 6-10 hours before local news. Living in an area where hail, windstorms and flooding occur, this is incredibly helpful. It gives you an opportunity to do things ahead of time.

by RN45ure

To live in a rural area but still have a tornado warning siren sound from Emergency on my phone when the National weather service issues a tornado warning in my area is priceless and potentially lifesaving.
Thank you!

by RustyLady

I’ve had Emergency for at least a year and I’m highly satisfied with the alerts I get from each area of the USA. I have family in several states and I’m able to know what’s happening at each area.

by RsTile

This is a great app. It keeps me informed abt oncoming and current severe weather situations, and allows me to keep in touch with my family and friends. I love that it shows a weather radar and also if needed lists shelters I can go to in an this app.