BOSTON — As soon as the National Weather Service issued a tornado warning Monday morning, it triggered a very loud emergency alert on every cell phone in the affected area.
MEMA Director Kurt Schwartz lives in concord himself and explained how the alert works.
“If you live in the impacted or warning area you get the alert. If you don’t, you didn’t hear it. But for those of us who live here, my cell phone went off. My wife’s went off we were awoken with 15 minutes advance notice,” he said.
The FOX25 weather app will also alert you to severe weather alerts for your specific location.
If you want to check to make sure emergency alerts are activated on your cell phone here's what you do.
For iPhone:
- Go to settings
- Click notifications
- Scroll to the bottom
- Make sure Emergency Alerts are turned on.
For Android:
- Go to settings
- Select messages
- Click on Emergency Alerts
- Select extreme and severe alerts
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