By the end of this page you will have one saved place and a phone that is told when a warning covers it. It takes a few minutes and costs nothing.
These steps use the Android app. On an iPhone or iPad, follow Alerts on iPhone without the app instead, which does the same job from the Home Screen.
1. Install the app
On the phone, open the WxAlerts page on Google Play and install it. It needs Android 9 or later.
2. Sign in
Open WxAlerts and sign in, or create a free account when asked. If you create an account, confirm your email, then come back to the app and sign in.
Push is on every plan, and any WxAlerts app signed in to your account gets push for all your places.
3. Save a place
- Sign in on the Account page and open Places.
- Tap Add a place.
- Under Where?, search for a town, county or ZIP, and choose the match.
- In Call it, name the place, for example Home.
- Leave Alert levels as it is. Warnings are ticked, which is the right start: a warning means act now.
- Tap Save place.
4. Check the place
Open the place you just saved from Places. Its settings show which kinds of alert it sends, anything muted, and whether it is paused. Make sure it is not paused. Push covers every place you save, so there is nothing to attach.
What you have now
A saved place, and a rule on it that sends warnings to your phone as ordinary notifications. An alert covers your place when the polygon the National Weather Service drew contains it.
Where to go next
- Saved places and alert rules: add a second place, or reach another person.
- Rules and channels: what a rule can watch, and the other ways an alert can reach you.
- How an alert reaches you: the path a warning takes to your phone.