Severe Weather Alerts Overview
Severe Weather Alerts provides customers with advanced warning of impending severe weather in their area.
Alarm.com tracks severe weather warnings issued by the National Weather Service and provides real-time alerts to customers when a severe weather warning is issued near their home or business. The alerts are integrated with Alarm.com's proven technology platform and are delivered directly to the customer's security control panel, giving them additional time to seek protection from dangerous weather conditions.
Feature summary
- Receive visual and audible notification of National Weather Service Severe Weather alerts in the customer's area through Alarm.com-enabled security control panel
- Alerts for tornadoes, tsunamis, or fires
- Available in the United States and Canada
- Alerts can be silenced or paused using the Alarm.com customer website or Alarm.com app.
Panel compatibility
The following panels are compatible with Severe Weather Alerts:
| 2GIG EDGE | Panel firmware version 1.1+ |
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| 2GIG GoControl | Panel firmware version 1.6+ |
| 2GIG GC2e | All versions |
| 2GIG GC3/GC3e | All versions |
| 2GIG GC Touch | All versions |
| DSC Impassa | All versions |
| DSC PowerSeries Neo/Pro | All versions |
| Interlogix Simon XT |
Panel firmware version 1.3+ Note: Severe Weather Alerts display on the panel but not on the Simon XT Wireless Talking Touch Screen (2WTTS).
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| Interlogix Simon XTi/XTi-5/XTi-5i | All versions |
| Qolsys IQ panels (IQ Panel/DSC Touch, IQ Panel 2, IQ Hub, IQ Panel 4, IQ4 Hub, IQ Pro, IQ Panel 5, IQ5 Hub) | All versions |
Service package and account requirements
- United States or Canada-based System Location address on customer account
- Active Alarm.com Interactive service package
- Severe Weather Alerts add-on enabled
How Severe Weather Alerts work
- An alert is issued for a county by the National Weather Service.
- The information is relayed by Alarm.com via the security control panel to customers in the zip codes of the designated county.
- A series of loud beeps sound, and a warning message appears on the panel.
- Alerts continue to sound and display until they are deactivated by the customer or discontinued by the weather service.
By giving people more time to react, this will hopefully help reduce the number of casualties resulting from these events in the future.
To view information from The National Weather Service about severe weather for specific zip codes, visit http://www.weather.gov/ and type in the zip code.
To clear a Severe Weather Alert from the panel:
See the panel-specific article for Clear a severe weather alert from the panel.