Severe weather can happen anytime, in any part of our community. Severe weather can include hazardous conditions produced by thunderstorms, including damaging winds, tornadoes, large hail, flooding, flash flooding, and winter storms associated with freezing rain, sleet, snow and strong winds.
Understand the types of hazardous weather that affects you and your family in Polk County and take action to develop an emergency plan and most importantly practice your plan.
As part of your planning for weather emergencies Polk County EMA suggests you consider signing up for FREE weather warnings via CodeRED. This service is provided to all citizens and industry in Polk County. Signing up is quick, easy and best of all FREE! There are two options and they are;
Remember, the address you use must be in Polk County, and you will only get warnings when your address is in the warning area. All warnings will come directly to your device from the National Weather Service.
For more information on CodeRED click
here.
