AccuWeather's Jon Porter shows how you can track storms and receive real-time alerts and notifications of severe weather threatening your area when you download the free AccuWeather app.
00:00We'll have a risk for severe thunderstorms and also widely separated tornadoes across parts of the central and eastern United States over the next several days.
00:12Great time to download the free AccuWeather app and use that to be best prepared for severe weather threats in your community.
00:18We're going to take a look at that in today's AccuWeather app feature.
00:21And one of the things I want to highlight is, of course, there's a ton of useful weather information in the AccuWeather app.
00:27But when you go down to the daily forecasts, you have your day by day forecast out to 45 days in the free AccuWeather app.
00:34Now to 90 days for great advance planning in the AccuWeather Premium Plus subscription, which you can activate in the AccuWeather app.
00:42And notice we're going to go over to Fort Wayne, Indiana today on Wednesday.
00:45We'll tap on Wednesday and look at the description here from AccuWeather expert meteorologists.
00:49We have the best descriptions so that you can be best informed and make the best weather impacted decisions.
00:55Talking about thunderstorms in the afternoon, storms can bring flooding downpours, hail, damaging wind gusts and an isolated tornado.
01:02So a dangerous risk in the Fort Wayne area and other parts of the Midwest here on Wednesday.
01:08That shifts toward the East Coast on Thursday.
01:10I want to show you another great tool.
01:11If you tap in the upper left hand corner here on the AccuWeather app, go down to settings and then under manage notifications right here.
01:20This is a great place to check and make sure that you have several key things turned on.
01:24First, government alerts.
01:26You want to make sure you have those turned on.
01:27AccuWeather delivers government warnings faster on average than any other source.
01:31It can save your life to get an AccuWeather alert from the AccuWeather app to help you to know to take action in a severe weather situation.
01:38Make sure those are on for your current location and any other location that you care about.
01:42AccuWeather has been proven to be the most accurate source of weather forecasts and warnings.
