Boone County provides a telephone based warning system for severe weather. CodeRED Weather Warning will alert Boone County residents, who have signed up for this free service, within seconds of any National Weather Service warning for tornado, severe thunderstorm or flash flood warnings. Due to the fact that the system is fully automated (based on information received from the National Weather Service) residents will receive a recorded message alerting them.

What CodeRED Weather Warning does: CodeRED Weather Warning is a severe weather early warning service that will call your phone and deliver a prerecorded alert message after a warning is issued for your area by the National Weather Service.

How CodeRED Weather Warning works: CodeRED Weather Warning utilizes state of the art satellite equipment to capture severe weather warnings within seconds after they are issued by local National Weather Service Office. CodeRED Weather Warning determines the nature of the warning* and the exact area(s) affected. If the National Weather Service has identified a severe weather* the CodeRED Weather Warning system creates a calling database of all CodeRED Weather Warning subscribers in the potential path of the storm.

*Severe warnings acted on by CodeRED Weather Warning include Tornado, Severe Thunderstorm, and Flash Flood warnings.

Signup to receive CodeRed Weather Warnings through our Community Enrollment Page - link to https://public.coderedweb.com/CNE/BF21624CDC82

Your caller-id will display 800-566-9780 for these calls we suggest saving Code Red Weather Warning with this number as a contact in your phone.