Stormline watches your address, not your location. You are at work and outside the warning area, so your phone says nothing while your house is inside it. Put the address in, put the right numbers on it, and you are the one who calls home. Two numbers per address, included.
Fair question, and mostly the honest answer is: your phone does part of this. Here is the part it does not.
| Free phone alerts | Stormline | |
|---|---|---|
| Where it warns | Wherever your phone is | The exact address you chose, whether you are there or not |
| How precise | Broad area, often a whole county | Inside the warning polygon or not. If your address is out, you stay quiet |
| Wakes you up | A notification you may have silenced | An actual phone call for tornado warnings |
| Works on Mom's flip phone | No | Yes. Texts reach any phone that gets texts, and the tornado call reaches a landline too |
| Tells you it is over | Rarely | An all-clear text when the warning expires |
Keep your free alerts. They are good. Stormline is for the address you cannot stand next to.
Will this tell me a tornado is coming before the Weather Service knows?
No, and be suspicious of anyone who says otherwise. Stormline relays the official National Weather Service warning the moment it is issued for your address. What you are buying is that it reaches the right phone at the right address, out loud, at 2 AM.
How many messages will I get?
Only when a warning actually includes your address. In most of Indiana that is a handful of times a year. Some years, once. It is quiet on purpose.
Can texts fail?
Yes. Cell coverage, a phone that is off, carrier filtering. We say so plainly in our terms. Never treat any single service as your only source, including this one.
Can I put someone else's phone on it?
Yes, and people do. Just tell them it is coming so the first call is not a mystery. Two numbers are included with every address.
What if I move or change numbers?
Email hello@weathervalet.ai and we take care of it. If you added the morning summary, the link in your messages also lets you change its send time yourself.