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With a severe weather outbreak sweeping across the central U.S., it's important to stay alert and stay informed if your area is threatened. Here's how the free AccuWeather app can help you prepare.
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00:04Severe weather outbreak across parts of the central United States on Friday into Friday night.
00:09Many tools in the free AccuWeather app to help you to stay safer and be best informed.
00:14That's what we do here at AccuWeather.
00:16And when you download the free AccuWeather app, which you can do by opening up your smartphone's camera
00:21and scanning the QR code on the screen, this is the day-by-day forecast section.
00:25We're going to go over to Madison, Wisconsin today.
00:27But, of course, you can go anywhere around the country, around the world,
00:30by just typing it in on the top here in the AccuWeather app.
00:33And see that little plus up on the upper right-hand corner?
00:36When you tap on that, that gets listed in your favorite, so you can come back to that city at
00:40any time.
00:41We tap on each of the days for more detail, and that brings up a wide variety of information.
00:45Look at this wording from AccuWeather severe weather experts today.
00:49Significant risk of damaging winds, destructive hail, tornadoes, and flooding downpours.
00:54A serious weather situation in the Madison, Wisconsin area.
00:57And other parts of the central U.S.
00:59Another thing to do, and this is a tip anywhere around the country so you can be best prepared for
01:04severe weather,
01:04is go in the upper right-hand corner of the free AccuWeather app, and go into settings.
01:09And down to manage notifications.
01:11And this is really important because this is where you can turn on potentially life-saving severe weather alerts
01:16that AccuWeather delivers to you for free as a push notification.
01:20We deliver those on average faster than any other known source.
01:23Look, you can turn on government alerts.
01:26You want to have those on for your current location and any other locations that you care about.
01:30Also, lightning alerts.
01:31AccuWeather will send you a push notification when lightning is occurring nearby.
01:36And you also have the opportunity to upgrade in the AccuWeather app to the Premium Plus service,
01:41which is an extra layer of protection that complements and extends the benefit of government weather warnings
01:46when AccuWeather meteorologists can provide an extra advance notice, and that happens often.
01:51Download the free AccuWeather app today.
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