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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