KinwarnKinwarn for iPhone · coming soon
Tornado, storm and flash flood alerts for your home and the people you love.
Kinwarn watches the exact addresses of your family and alerts you when a National Weather Service warning covers them. Mom doesn’t need an app.
1. Add the homes
Yours, your parents’, your grandmother’s. A school or workplace too, with alerts only during the day.
2. Kinwarn watches
Every warning from the National Weather Service is checked against each exact address, day and night.
3. You know right away
“Take shelter · Tornado warning at Mom’s home until 3:45 AM.” With Pro, Kinwarn calls her too.
Free and Pro
| Free | Pro | |
|---|---|---|
| Places watched | 2 | 10 |
| Notifications | 25 alert types | 25 alert types |
| Radar, outlook, storm history, widgets, CarPlay | Yes | Yes |
| Phone calls for the most dangerous warnings | — | Up to 3 numbers, including yours |
| Email for those warnings | — | Yes |
| Lightning within 10 miles | — | Yes |
| Reminder the evening before a storm day | — | Yes |
| Price | Free | $5.99 a month or $39.99 a year, 7-day free trial on the yearly plan |
Pro includes up to 30 call alerts a month. One call alert is one warning at one place, however many numbers Kinwarn calls about it.
The 25 alert types
- Tornadoes, storms and flash floods: tornado warnings (including tornado emergencies), severe thunderstorm warnings, flash flood warnings (including flash flood emergencies), tornado watches and high wind warnings.
- Winter, heat and cold: winter storm, blizzard, ice storm, lake effect snow and snow squall warnings, plus extreme heat and extreme cold warnings.
- Emergencies: hurricane, storm surge, extreme wind and tsunami warnings, evacuation and shelter-in-place orders, and other emergency orders from local officials.
Every other National Weather Service alert is still on the map in the app, without a notification.
Before you rely on it
Kinwarn adds to official alerts, it does not replace them. Keep Wireless Emergency Alerts on, keep a weather radio if you can, and follow instructions from local officials. Alerts can be delayed by the network, your phone settings or the National Weather Service feed.
Coming soon to the App Store.
Kinwarn is for iPhone. Questions? Write to hello@kinwarn.com.
Questions people ask
Is Kinwarn free?
Yes. Alerts for 2 places, your home and one more, are free. Kinwarn Pro adds up to 10 places, phone calls for the most dangerous warnings, email, lightning alerts and storm-day reminders.
How much is Kinwarn Pro?
$5.99 a month or $39.99 a year. The yearly plan starts with a 7-day free trial. You can cancel any time in your iPhone settings.
Does Kinwarn work on Android?
Not yet. Kinwarn is an iPhone app. Family members you add do not need any app: Kinwarn Pro can call any phone number, including a landline.
Where do the warnings come from?
From the National Weather Service. Kinwarn listens to the warning feed the National Weather Service sends to partners around the clock and checks each warning against the addresses you saved.