When you download the free AccuWeather app, you gain access to immediate weather notifications such as watches and warnings for flooding, thunderstorms, tornadoes and dangerous heat waves.
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00:00We've been highlighting for days here at AccuWeather and on the AccuWeather Network ahead of other known sources about the risk for severe thunderstorms, including tornadoes across parts of the central and eastern part of the United States over the coming days.
00:17The AccuWeather free app is a great resource to help you be best prepared and to stay safer and I'm going to show you some of the key features to help you best navigate severe weather events in the free AccuWeather app and when you go to the free AccuWeather app, your main dashboard, any government issued watches, warnings and advisories are going to show up right on the top.
00:37You can see in this case a heat advisory and when you tap on that you can actually see the details, when it starts, when it ends and another tap will get you the full text of the warning as well as a map of the impacted areas.
00:49This is very helpful when you're navigating various severe weather events.
00:52The other thing you want to do is always turn on push notifications and what I mean by that is AccuWeather will send you severe weather warnings that are issued for your community on average faster than any other source.
01:03In order to do that you just tap at any location, you type in any location around the country or your GPS coordinates will automatically find your present location and you tap where the favorite is located, right over here.
01:16Notice how tap on favorite and it's going to ask you do you want to receive notifications, receive notifications and set that up and then you can also go back into your setup which is over in the upper left hand corner of the screen down to settings and manage notifications which is right in through here.
01:32And when you do that, make sure that government alerts are turned on and notice you can select that for your current location and any other location that you care about where your friends or family live, where your kids live, where your grandparents live.
01:44Many people have multiple locations so they can stay best informed.
01:48AccuWeather has been proven to be the most accurate source of weather forecasts and warnings.
01:52Better protect your family and keep them safer.
01:55Download the AccuWeather app today.