If you find yourself in fishy weather and aren't tracking the conditions around, you'll soon have a push notification sent to your phone.

The National Weather Service is introducing notifications for severe weather and according to Chris Miller at the National Weather Service in Lincoln, these will be similar to notifications you receive for things like amber alerts.

You already get these alerts for tornado warnings but Miller indicates now the alerts will be expanded to severe thunderstorm warnings with the potential to do a lot of damage.

Last August's derecho storm was the catalyst for this process getting to the finish line. Miller explains if they would have had this type of system in place last year they could have gotten information to the impacted areas in a much more effective way.

Miller indicates most phones are programmed with these notifications that are set to go off automatically so you do not need to do any sort of signing up for them.