CASA Alerts
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1.44for iPhone, iPad and more
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About CASA Alerts
CASA Alerts is a multi-purpose mobile app developed by the CASA Engineering Research Center (http://www.casa.umass.edu/main/research/urbantestbed/research/), led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst, aimed at improving user-centric, context-aware severe weather forecasts and warnings using CASA’s City Warn™ platform. The CASA Alerts Mobile app delivers weather information and/or surveys to users on mobile phones to improve our understanding of the best ways to deliver weather information for thunderstorms, tornados, hail, high winds and floods.
App functionality and user experience varies depending on the user.
· CASA WX users: CASA collaborates with the North Central Texas Council of Governments and the National Weather Service to bring detailed, rapidly updating radar data to North Central Texas through the CASA WX program. Cities and towns that support CASA WX receive severe weather warnings issued by the National Weather Service, hyper-local alerts derived from CASA radar data, Understory sensors, and local storm spotter reports, based on user preferences for alerting, and locations of interest. We periodically request feedback from users in the form of mobile phone surveys.
· Other users: These participants receive surveys that explore individual’s perceptions of severe weather risks. Different users may receive different types of weather information, and some may not receive any weather information at all so we can learn about what people currently use for severe weather information.
About us:
CASA’s work has been supported through various National Science Foundation grants such as Hazards SEES (#1331572), Building innovation Capacity (#1632193), FIA-NP, FIA (#1345300, #1040781) programs. Academic participants include University of Massachusetts, Colorado State University and the University of Delaware.
If you have questions about the CASA Alerts app, please contact: support@casaalert.org
Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.
App functionality and user experience varies depending on the user.
· CASA WX users: CASA collaborates with the North Central Texas Council of Governments and the National Weather Service to bring detailed, rapidly updating radar data to North Central Texas through the CASA WX program. Cities and towns that support CASA WX receive severe weather warnings issued by the National Weather Service, hyper-local alerts derived from CASA radar data, Understory sensors, and local storm spotter reports, based on user preferences for alerting, and locations of interest. We periodically request feedback from users in the form of mobile phone surveys.
· Other users: These participants receive surveys that explore individual’s perceptions of severe weather risks. Different users may receive different types of weather information, and some may not receive any weather information at all so we can learn about what people currently use for severe weather information.
About us:
CASA’s work has been supported through various National Science Foundation grants such as Hazards SEES (#1331572), Building innovation Capacity (#1632193), FIA-NP, FIA (#1345300, #1040781) programs. Academic participants include University of Massachusetts, Colorado State University and the University of Delaware.
If you have questions about the CASA Alerts app, please contact: support@casaalert.org
Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.
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What's New in the Latest Version 1.44
Last updated on Dec 6, 2021
Old Versions
- Optimisations for generating alerts
- Bug fixes
- Bug fixes
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Version History
1.44
Dec 6, 2021
- Optimisations for generating alerts
- Bug fixes
- Bug fixes
1.43
Apr 29, 2021
* Receive Emergency Manager alerts
* iOS 14 compatibility
* bug fixes
* iOS 14 compatibility
* bug fixes
1.42.1
Dec 10, 2019
Image archive loading improvements
1.42
Oct 13, 2019
Added iOS 13 support incl. dark mode.
iOS 11 is now required.
iOS 11 is now required.
1.41.5
Jul 31, 2019
Updates to permission handling
1.41.4
Jun 20, 2019
- Adjustments to improve battery usage
- Improvements to first launch experience
- Improvements to first launch experience
1.41.3
Jun 5, 2019
Includes bug fixes and more changes to make app to server communications more efficient.
1.41.2
May 12, 2019
More critical bug fixes
1.41.1
May 5, 2019
Critical bug fixes
1.41
Apr 30, 2019
- Fixed survey view to be more responsive
- Fixes to zip code/access code entry
- Updated tutorial/help screen
- Fixes to zip code/access code entry
- Updated tutorial/help screen
1.40
Mar 12, 2019
Critical bug fix
1.39
Feb 27, 2019
- Bug fixes
- iOS 10 is now required
- Support for new devices
- iOS 10 is now required
- Support for new devices
1.38
Nov 4, 2018
Bug fixes
1.37
Oct 12, 2018
- Fixed an issue with maps not updating for EMs
- Added freezing rain
- Icon sizes fixed for smaller iPhones
- Other miscellaneous improvements
- Added freezing rain
- Icon sizes fixed for smaller iPhones
- Other miscellaneous improvements
1.36
Aug 11, 2018
- internal changes
- bugfixes
- bugfixes
1.35
Jun 19, 2018
- bug fixes
- interface tweaks
- interface tweaks
1.34
Mar 19, 2018
- bug fixes
- new survey features
- new survey features
1.33
Oct 16, 2017
Better iOS 11 compatibility
1.32
Oct 3, 2017
Added hail alerts from Understory sensors
Fixed issues with experiment codes
Fixed issues with experiment codes
1.31
Jun 2, 2017
o Added an additional study
o Updates to consent forms
o Updates to survey information handling
o Updates to consent forms
o Updates to survey information handling
1.3
May 8, 2017
- Improved interface for gathering user preferences for severe weather alerting.
- CASA Alerts is now available to residents of North Central Texas jurisdictions participating in CASA WX program
- 'Survey only' mode introduced in support of CASA research studies. Research participants may not have access to severe weather alerts.
- CASA Alerts is now available to residents of North Central Texas jurisdictions participating in CASA WX program
- 'Survey only' mode introduced in support of CASA research studies. Research participants may not have access to severe weather alerts.
1.21
Jan 30, 2017
- Fixed an issue with custom locations sometimes not saving.
1.20
Jan 18, 2017
- bug fixes
1.10
Jan 6, 2017
- iOS 9 is now required
- added Understory sensors
- 5-15 DBZ added on the map legend
- fixed login issues
- added Understory sensors
- 5-15 DBZ added on the map legend
- fixed login issues
1.09
Nov 4, 2016
- bug fixes for the login process
CASA Alerts FAQ
Click here to learn how to download CASA Alerts in restricted country or region.
Check the following list to see the minimum requirements of CASA Alerts.
iPhone
Requires iOS 12.3 or later.
iPad
Requires iPadOS 12.3 or later.
iPod touch
Requires iOS 12.3 or later.
CASA Alerts supports English
