Tornado by American Red Cross
By American Red Cross
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Description
**One of CNN's 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
What's New in Version 3.2.1
• Performance & stability improvements
• Adds ability to set monitored location radius to 250 miles
• Fixes bug where some users could not set radius
• Bottom bar is now hidden when viewing alert details
• Various minor bug fixes and improvements
Customer Reviews
This app + ARC Hurricane: Worth Having
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 you're 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.
Best Alerts!
The best and loudest alerts of all 7 of my weather apps! Great info as well. Only issue is some of the alert text is very difficult to read. The contrast is too low. Style should be put aside for an app like this. It should be easy for everyone to read. Set alerts to your liking! Some reviewers don't know how it's done. It's easy to set up. Still deserves 6 stars!
★★★★★★
Not too helpful
While the app is great for those who are indoors it goes off way too often. Last night I got no less than 4 watches in 1 minute. Other times I've gotten 6 tornado warnings with a blaring alarm from 1-3am. It seems every time the NWS issues an update you send out the warning or watch again instead of just sending it to those who the change effects.
It is becoming the boy who cried wolf. Ineffective because 90% of the time it is a reissue that doesn't impact me.
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- Free
- Category: Weather
- Updated: Jun 13, 2016
- Version: 3.2.1
- Size: 66.9 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: American Red Cross
- Copyright © 2013-2014 The American National Red Cross
Compatibility: Requires iOS 8.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.