Tornado: American Red Cross app for iPhone and iPad
**One of CNNs 7 apps to help survive a tornado**
Get your family and home ready for a tornado. The American Red Cross tornado app is the complete solution you need to understand and prepare for a tornado and all that comes with it. With interactive quizzes and simple step-by-step advice it’s never been easier to be ready!
Ahora disponible en español.
Features:
• Free and available in English and Spanish
• Audible siren when NOAA issues a Tornado warning for any of your monitored locations letting you know when it’s time to go to your safe room plus an all-clear alert when the warning expires (Note: Alerts sounds will NOT override if phone is on vibrate or in sleep mode)
• Customizable alerting and push notification options.
• Easy to view alert feed with the ability to remove alerts.
• Simple step-by-step instructions to help you know what-to-do even if the cell towers and TVs are down.
• Prioritized actions for before, during, and after requires no mobile connectivity
• Help distant friends and family in tornado alley with ability to receive tornado watch and warning alerts based on their location from NOAA
• Map with open Red Cross shelters and other weather-related layers.
• Be ready should a tornado hit by learning how to assemble an emergency kit for your family in the event of power outage or evacuation
• Reduce your household’s stress and anxiety should a tornado hit by learning to make and practice an emergency plan
• Interactive quizzes allow you to earn badges that you can share with your friends and show off your tornado knowledge
• Know the difference between a watch and a warning
• Learn how to deal with food and water impacted by floods and power outages
• Simply let friends/family know you’re safe with customizable “I’m Safe” notification sharable thru social media, text and email
• Let others know where you are with the Toolkit’s strobe light, flashlight and audible alert functions
Pros and cons of Tornado: American Red Cross app for iPhone and iPad
Tornado: American Red Cross app good for
On May 29 this app went off on my phone before any other sirens went off. It woke my wife and I up. Thanks for this app we were warned first. Great!
Although my county also has a weather event text message alert system that makes the ARC apps a little redundant, I like having these apps.
Their biggest downcheck is that they are dependent on having some kind of data access, either cell or wifi. Thus, if you have no data plan, and youre not presently camped out at home/Starbucks/Panera/etc, well then, you get to be surprised when the tornado blows you & Toto away to Kansas.
On the other hand, the apps provide some level of training & prep guidance.
Also the built-in on-demand sirens are good for waking the kids up.
This app is great for warning me of tornados and giving me the information to prep.
I would not have know about the Tornado Warning if it were not for this App. There is not a warning siren in this area.
I would not have know about the "for real" Tornado Warning if it had not been for this app. I did not have TV on and there is not a siren in this area and this app gave me the warning. Best app ever.
This app came in handy when we had a tornado hit just down the road from us. Im so glad I had it because we dont have a tornado siren anywhere around us. This is like having our own siren in my house.
Some bad moments
App is unreliable when you need it the most. It will send out warning signals, but then will not load the alert. Frustrating to be warned of a tornado and not be able to read the notifications that are posted. Needs an update to fix these issues desperately. It is storm season!!!!
This app is a worthless piece of crap. If I didnt have my text alerts from my local municipality I wouldnt have known about the last two tornadoes that touched down 1/4 a mile from my home. And I never ONCE got any kind of alert from this stupid app.
Love this app when it works. Unable to set up options, it keeps crashing. It needs to be reliable in order for it to be effective. Please fix it.
This apps needs a lot of work to make it good and a trustworthy source of information during a weather emergency. The app need better information and more of it to guide people on how to handle a serious situation. Locations you chose need to be specific to where you live an not within 25 miles of where you live. Warnings and watches need to be broadcast as soon as they come out from the National Weather Service, not 10-15 minutes after the fact. This app needs to give a comprehensive list of what to put in an emergency kit and not just these three quiz questions. Severe weather can get very serious in the right conditions, if the Red Cross really wants to help then create an app that reflects it.
No way to change location. Came up on me wrong for me. No way to move to side
I like this app but when I try and read the warning or watch statements it wont load, even with wifi or lte, other apps that need data load just fine but not tornado. Whats the point if I cant read the alerts??
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