Prepare for inclement weather
Know earlier, respond faster, and improve continuously to threats from inclement weather.
Stay ahead of severe weather with real-time alerts, rapid communication, and coordinated response.
Protect your people and maintain operations during severe weather events
Severe weather preparedness has never been more important, as the frequency and intensity of weather events is ever increasing. Corporate leaders and public safety officials require effective and reliable solutions to mitigate risk and protect their people during these events.
Our High Velocity Critical Event Management™ platform, Everbridge 360, provides organizations with best-in-class solutions like Mass Notification and Public Safety that help corporate leaders and emergency managers solve the challenges that arise from inclement weather.
Split-second preparation
- Prioritizing actions in seconds
- Immediately understanding context about the event
- Quickly identifying impacted people and available resources
Instantaneous communication
- Relaying urgent warnings and evacuation orders instantly
- Leveraging all available communication channels
- Reaching residents and employees in the shortest time possible to enhance preparedness and response
Effective response
- Mobilizing available response teams and resources
- Ensuring teams reach affected areas promptly
- Mitigating hazards and providing aid
Prepare, communicate, and respond to a weather event with Everbridge Mass Notification and Public Safety solutions
Benefits
- Proactive management: harness real-time intelligence to make swift, informed decisions.
- Timely intelligence: access crucial data to anticipate and mitigate risks to personnel and assets.
- Automated communications: streamline messaging to prevent chaos and ensure safety with minimal disruption.
- Coordinated responses: integrate resources and implement recovery plans effectively through a centralized collaboration platform.
Features
- Rapid information dissemination: ensure critical information reaches the right individuals swiftly and reliably, enhancing situational awareness.
- Geo-targeted alerts: deliver precise notifications based on location, allowing for targeted responses and localized action.
- Multi-lingual support: communicate effectively with diverse audiences by providing alerts and updates in multiple languages.
- Two-way communication: facilitate interactive dialogue to gather feedback and adjust strategies in real-time.
Everbridge helps Ameren manage weather disruptions with precision
Learn how Everbridge transformed Ameren’s response to severe weather. From creating ad hoc web pages with maps to sending location-specific updates, Everbridge enables Ameren to keep employees informed and safe during critical events.
Explore Everbridge in action
Experience Everbridge in action with a customized product tour tailored to your organization’s unique operational, resilience, and critical event management needs. Explore the solutions most relevant to your team and see how Everbridge helps you anticipate risks, respond faster, and maintain business continuity.
How it works
When teams operate from a centralized critical event management (CEM) platform, responses are rapid and coordinated.
Before an event, Everbridge alerts managers to a potential risk so they have time to assess, then identify and locate team members or assets in harm’s way.
From the same platform, managers can automate action plans and send communications, so teams have the information they need to act quickly.
Afterwards, analytics pinpoint how to improve processes during the next event.
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Solution
Everbridge empowers organizations to effectively navigate severe weather challenges with real-time intelligence, automated communications, and coordinated response capabilities. Our Mass Notification and Public Safety solutions, powered by Purpose-built AI, enhance preparedness and resilience by delivering urgent alerts and evacuation orders promptly to the right people, optimizing resource allocation, and protecting both individuals and assets. This strategic approach reduces disruptions and strengthens operational continuity, enabling businesses and public safety officials to maintain safety and security even during the most unpredictable weather events.
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Outcome
Invest in a solution that can prepare you for severe weather and help you respond during any kind of critical event. Our customers experience the following results:
- Hyper-relevant intelligence provides ample time for preparation, often over 24 hours.
- Opt-in alerting greatly expands the reach of communications, in one case from 6% to 75%.
- Two-way communications enables organizations to send alerts and receive responses from employees in just seconds.
Burns & McDonnell use Everbridge to stay safe during inclement weather
Burns & McDonnell uses Everbridge to navigate critical events by providing impact zone visibility, enabling efficient communication, and ensuring safety during weather-related emergencies.
Is your organization ready for the next critical event?
Access the Gartner® Market Guide for Emergency and Mass Notification Systems to learn how leading organizations are transforming emergency communication and resilience
Large-scale event preparedness guides for public & private sector
Major sporting events create dynamic conditions which drive real-time disruption across multiple sectors.
Explore two guides, one for public sector organizations and one for private sector leaders, to find out how to maintain continuity, protect people, and respond faster under pressure.
Success stories
St. Louis leads by example in strengthening tornado resilience
St. Louis Emergency Management Agency increased its reach for emergency mass notifications from 17,000 contacts to roughly 224,000 with Everbridge.
Manufacturer notifies employees in seconds
Mass Notification enables this manufacturer to communicate with employees at risk during critical weather events and security threats.
“We use Everbridge Mass Notification to provide alerts about extreme weather events. We’re located in the mid-Atlantic region, so hurricanes are common, but we also use it for ice storms, snow, tornadoes…”
Brevard County reaches more people with targeted emergency alerts
Expanded contact data helps Brevard County, Florida to deliver fast-changing emergency information to more residents and visitors.
“…we were able to exponentially increase our reach to notify residents of evacuations and provide them with a telephone number to call for information or assistance.”
Private sector resources
Earthquake preparedness checklist for businesses:
Proactive steps businesses can take to strengthen resilience against earthquakes.
Wildfire preparedness checklist for businesses:
Proactive steps businesses can take to strengthen resilience against wildfires and bushfires.
Flooding preparedness checklist for businesses:
Proactive steps businesses can take to strengthen resilience against flooding.
Winter storm preparedness checklist for businesses:
Proactive steps businesses can take to strengthen resilience against winter storms.
6 step hurricane preparedness checklist for businesses:
Proactive steps businesses can take to strengthen resilience against hurricanes.
Winter safety tips for employees in private and public sectors:
Valuable insights for private and public sectors and a comprehensive checklist to navigate challenges posed by severe winter weather.
Eye on the horizon: Navigating the 2024 hurricane season risk landscape
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Critical event kit for business continuity: Hurricanes
The Everbridge hurricane critical event kit for organizational resilience equips you with the essential knowledge and tools to fortify your organization’s readiness and response strategies in the face of hurricanes.
Wildfires can, and do, happen anywhere
Download our Infinite Blue Alert to learn how organizations can ensure they’re prepared for wildfires–no matter where they occur.
Public sector resources
8 step hurricane preparedness checklist for public safety:
Proactive steps emergency managers can take to protect their communities during hurricanes.
Tornado season system checklist:
Proactive steps emergency managers can take to protect their communities during tornadoes.
Winter storm system checklist for public safety:
How ready is your emergency notification system to effectively support communication during a winter storm?
Winter storm preparedness checklist for higher education:
Proactive steps institutions can take to strengthen resilience against winter storms.
Perspectives from the front lines:
Develop a wildfire plan with real-life insights from first responders.
Inclement weather response demands attention:
Despite technological advances, proactive steps remain to strengthen resilience and keep people safe.
Critical event kit for public safety – wildfires
A critical event kit underscoring the complexities of wildfires and offering tangible strategies and solutions to fortify your response against this ever-growing threat.
Critical event kit for public safety: Hurricanes
The Everbridge hurricane critical event kit for public safety empowers you with the essential knowledge and tools to fortify your community’s readiness and response strategies in the face of hurricanes.
Successfully notifying a large community with Everbridge and opt-in awareness
Lewisville authorities can rapidly alert targeted individuals via mobile app. They use customizable templates to increase effectiveness of mass notifications.
Inclement weather FAQs
What is an inclement weather communication system and who needs it?
An inclement weather communication system helps organizations quickly notify employees, customers, students, residents, or stakeholders about severe weather threats and operational impacts. These systems are used by enterprises, healthcare organizations, schools, government agencies, utilities, transportation providers, and any organization responsible for protecting people and maintaining operations during weather emergencies.
How does Everbridge 360 automate severe weather alerts and response workflows?
Everbridge 360 combines real-time weather intelligence, geospatial awareness, automated workflows, and critical communications to help organizations detect threats early and respond faster. The platform can automatically trigger alerts, escalations, incident workflows, and stakeholder communications based on weather events, impacted locations, severity thresholds, and operational rules.
Which channels does Everbridge support for weather alerts (SMS, voice, email, desktop, sirens, social)?
Everbridge supports multi-channel alerting across SMS, voice calls, mobile push notifications, email, desktop alerts, collaboration tools, digital signage, outdoor warning systems, sirens, and social media channels. This helps organizations reach people quickly through multiple communication paths to improve message delivery and response rates during severe weather events.
How do geo-targeted alerts work and how precise can they be?
Geo-targeted alerts use GIS mapping, device location data, addresses, facility boundaries, and threat proximity to notify only people in affected areas. Everbridge supports highly targeted notifications based on polygons, geofences, buildings, campuses, or operational regions, helping organizations reduce alert fatigue while delivering more relevant instructions during fast-moving weather event
How fast can Everbridge be implemented for severe weather use cases?
Implementation timelines vary based on organizational size, integrations, and deployment scope, but many organizations can quickly launch weather alerting and incident communication workflows using configurable templates, automated rules, and prebuilt integrations. Phased deployments often begin with emergency notifications before expanding into broader operational resilience and crisis management capabilities.
What integrations are available (GIS, HR systems, identity providers, ITSM, E911)?
Everbridge supports integrations across GIS platforms, HR systems, identity providers, ITSM environments, E911 systems, collaboration tools, access control platforms, and enterprise applications. These integrations help organizations automate notifications, synchronize personnel and location data, streamline workflows, and improve coordination during weather-related disruptions and emergency response operations.
How does Everbridge ensure reliability, security, and compliance for critical alerts?
Everbridge is designed to support high-volume, mission-critical communications with redundant infrastructure, scalable delivery capabilities, role-based access controls, encryption, and auditability features. Our platform helps organizations strengthen operational resilience while supporting security, governance, and compliance requirements associated with emergency communications and critical event management.
How do organizations measure ROI (reach rate, time-to-alert, incident resolution time, business continuity KPIs)?
Organizations typically measure ROI using metrics such as alert delivery rates, acknowledgment rates, time-to-alert, incident response times, downtime reduction, and operational continuity performance. Many organizations also track employee safety outcomes, escalation efficiency, exercise readiness, and recovery performance to evaluate how resilience investments improve preparedness and reduce disruption.
How is Everbridge priced for inclement weather use cases?
Everbridge pricing varies based on organizational size, number of users, communication volume, deployment scope, integrations, and selected capabilities. Weather-related deployments may include emergency notifications, incident management, threat intelligence, and operational resilience features. Organizations typically work with Everbridge to tailor a solution aligned to their risk environment, operational requirements, and scalability needs.
