Severe Weather Alerts
Push notifications for every NWS warning — tornado, flood, severe thunderstorm, ice, winter. Filtered to your saved locations, delivered the second they're issued.
Tornado alerts →Every signal that matters — NWS warnings, river flood stages, live radar, and your own scanner feeds — on one screen. Stop juggling six apps when the sky turns.
Preview only — for reference, not actual current conditions.
A live ops console for your phone — every feed that matters on one screen, updating in real time.
When a storm rolls in, the last thing you need is to open one app for NWS warnings, another for the river gauge, and a browser tab for the radar — plus a separate site to find a working police or fire scanner stream. StormCast pulls every signal that actually matters — severe weather, flood stages, radar, fire weather, AQI — into one console, and lets you paste in your own scanner stream URLs so they live in the same player. Less tab-hopping. Faster decisions. One source of truth on the screen you already carry.
An honest comparison against the apps you might already have on your phone.
StormCast
StormCast is free and supported by minimal, non-intrusive ads. Core severe-weather and emergency alerts will always remain free. See our privacy policy for details.
Comparison reflects publicly available app features as of June 2026. Built-in weather varies by device manufacturer. StormCast is in active development — some features may behave differently in your environment.
Every sensor stream that matters, one app. Built for people who need to know about severe weather before it arrives — not after.
Push notifications for every NWS warning — tornado, flood, severe thunderstorm, ice, winter. Filtered to your saved locations, delivered the second they're issued.
Tornado alerts →Always-on temp and conditions in your notification bar, plus a Quick Settings tile one swipe away. Updates silently in the background — never interrupts you.
Monitor home, work, family. Get warnings for every saved area — not just where you are right now.
USGS river gauges with NWS flood stage thresholds — Action / Flood / Moderate / Major — pushed before water hits critical.
Flood alerts →Bring your own — Code Red, Rave RSS, any local emergency URL. Push fires the second something new posts.
Red Flag warnings, fire danger levels, AQI and UV index — one place. Know before you head outside.
Air quality alerts →Live NHC storm tracks, categories, and forecast cones during hurricane season. Stay ahead of every advisory.
Hurricane tracker →Interactive radar, lightning strikes, storm cell tracking. See exactly what's heading your way and when.
Paste your favorite police, fire, EMS, or weather scanner stream URLs and listen to all of them in one player. Works with any public audio stream URL.
Weather alerts fire with a distinctive two-chirp tone — not a generic ding. You'll know it's a real warning before you even look at your phone.
Trees down, power lines, flooded or icy roads, mudslides, hail, snow depth — dropped by StormCast users near you and confirmed or flagged by the community. Auto-expires so it stays current.
Neighborhood reports →Tonight's Northern Lights chances for your exact location, your sky conditions, NOAA storm watches, live aurora maps and a beginner's guide. Optional aurora alerts when a storm is strong enough to see from where you are.
Aurora alerts →A push when lightning strikes near you, so you can get off the field, out of the water or call the kids in before the storm arrives.
Lightning alerts →Notifications for USGS-reported earthquakes near you, with the magnitude, location and how far away it was. Bigger quakes alert from farther away.
Earthquake alerts →StormCast on your PC with the same dashboard, radar, river gauges and space weather page, plus desktop notifications. Starts with Windows and updates itself.
Download for Windows →A safety tool is only useful if you know what it is and what it isn't. Four things we want to be clear about.
When the cell network is down or the power's out, a battery-powered NOAA Weather Radio is still the most reliable line. StormCast complements that — it doesn't replace it.
Every alert, watch, and forecast comes straight from the National Weather Service and its partner agencies. We don't run our own models or claim to know anything the NWS doesn't.
No third-party tracking, no behavioral analytics, no marketing lists. Your email and saved locations exist only to deliver the alerts you signed up for. Any advertising shown will never use your personal data for targeting.
Push notifications depend on your phone, your carrier, OS battery settings, and Google's Firebase service. In a real emergency, never rely on any single source — not us, not anyone. Always have a backup.
StormCast does the monitoring so your phone doesn't have to. All data is checked and filtered on our servers — your device is only contacted when something relevant happens.
StormCast is available for free on Google Play. Download it now and get severe weather alerts, live radar, river flood monitoring, and more — right on your phone.
An iOS version is on the roadmap. Leave your email and we'll let you know the moment it's available.
Email only. No spam, no sharing — one message if iOS launches.