A saved place is a location on your account. A rule decides which alerts covering it reach you, and on which channel. What a rule can watch and the channels it can use are listed in Rules and channels.
There is no radius to set. An alert covers a place when the polygon the National Weather Service drew contains it, which is the same test the live map uses and the same one the forecast office intended.
Add a place
- Sign in and open Places on your account page.
- Search for a city, county or ZIP. Places come from the site’s own gazetteer rather than typed coordinates, so the hit carries a real position and a name you will recognise a year from now.
- Choose what the place is worth telling you about. Warnings are ticked and the rest are not, which is the honest default: a warning means act now, and an advisory at 2 AM costs you your belief that a message from us matters.
- Attach the channels that should hear about it.
How many places you can save, and how many people each one can notify, is what a plan buys. See pricing.
Reach more than one person
A place can notify several people. Group somebody’s number and address under their name and they count once against your plan’s limit, rather than once per way of reaching them.
If it did not work
- Check that the place is saved and not paused.
- An alert reaches a place when the Weather Service’s warning area contains it. A county named in a warning is not always covered by it.
- If you are on a phone, see Alerts on iPhone without the app for the checks specific to it.