WRAL WeatherCall Frequently Asked Questions

WRAL WeatherCall is a personalized severe weather warning service from WRAL-TV. When you sign up, you give us the address of your home, business, or child's school. Whenever severe weather threatens that address, you will get a call from Mike Maze, telling you about the threat and what you need to do about it.

When you register, you provide us with a physical address for which you would like severe weather alerts. When a severe thunderstorm or tornado warning is issued and includes your specific address, we will telephone up to three telephone numbers you provide, alert you to the threatening weather, and tell you what you need to do.

WRAL WeatherCall will cost $8 per year for one address and up to three phone numbers. For example, if you have your home address registered and you want to receive alert phone calls on your home phone and two cell phones, the cost will be $8 per year. (Please note that your usual telephone usage charges will apply.)

If you want to sign up a second address or more than three phone numbers, that will be counted as a second subscription costing an additional $8 per year.

WRAL negotiated the fee with our vendor as low as possible. At $0.67 per month or $8 per year, we believe WRAL WeatherCall’s price is reasonable for address based severe weather telephone warnings. In comparison, The Weather Channel's Notify service is $6.99 per month, more than $80 per year.

You may register any three telephone numbers you wish, including “land lines”, cell phones, and voice-over-IP telephone numbers. Keep in mind that getting your alerts depends on your telephone. In other words, if your cell phone battery is dead or if the Internet connection upon which your voice-over-IP telephone service depends goes out, you will not receive your alerts. This is why you are able to register up to three telephone numbers, and we recommend at least one of those numbers be your primary “land line” telephone, if you have one. (Please note that your usual telephone usage charges will apply.)

WRAL WeatherCall alerts will come from 1-866-479-9906. If you have a mobile phone, you might add that number to your address book as "WRAL WeatherCall".

You will get alerts, but those alerts will be based on the physical address you used when you registered, not the location of your GPS-enabled cell phone.