A car or truck is no place to be in a tornado, severe thunderstorm or flash flood. MyWarn gives you and your family peace of mind when you are mobile by instantly notifying you when the National Weather Service issues a specific severe weather alert for your precise location.
When severe weather threatens, your immediate action can mean the difference between life and death. Buy yourself and your family the gift of time by getting precise alerts delivered to your smartphone within seconds of them being issued by National Weather Service meteorologists, wherever you are, no matter the time of day. See the alert graphically displayed on your phone. Then be alerted when the threat has ended as well.
MyWARN goes with you wherever you travel in the U.S. It utilizes the official risks, watches and warnings issued by the National Weather Service for all 50 states and seven U.S. territories. MyWARN uses the location technology of your smartphone to know where you are so that you immediately are alerted to the alerts you specify. The alerts are transmitted within seconds from the forecaster’s terminal to your device!
Seconds count when tornadoes, severe thunderstorms and flash floods threaten. You need information, and you need a plan. MyWARN alerts within seconds you when you are inside a severe weather threat area. It then provides concise simple safety tips based on your current situation. You select a situation and the app responds with specific actions. It could save your life.
Vacation time is upon but, but severe weather never takes a break. You need MyWARN to alert you wherever you travel in the 48 United States.
When you first install MyWARN, you might wonder why it doesn’t do anything. That’s because MyWARN doesn’t do anything, until severe weather threatens your precise location. It doesn’t go off for warnings on the other side of the county, or down the road, or even across the street if you aren’t in the warning. Please understand that before you buy this app. MyWARN eliminates unnecessary warnings.
NOAA Weatheradio is an important warning tool. However, since it is county based, you still receive many warnings that are not for your location even when you have it programmed correctly. MyWarn notifies you only for the alerts that affect your specific location.
Dr. Laura Myers is a disaster preparedness research professor at the University of Alabama. She has conducted extensive research into the response to tornado warnings. Dr. Myers ran the Town Hall meeting at the National Weather Association meeting in Birmingham in 2011. One of the most interesting findings from the data that she has gathered […]
From county based to polygon based, the way the National Weather Service issues severe weather warnings has changed. MyWARN uses this same polygon warning system to get the warning out, but just to the users that are within the polygon. Through this process, MyWARN is proving to be the premier severe weather notification app.
Flood deaths are once again on the rise across the United States. By far, most people die in vehicles. MyWARN alerts you when flood warnings are posted.
