National Weather Alerts Reader
- Alain Savoie
- Jonathan Schmale
The National Weather Alert reader uses the US weather.gov api: NWS Alerts (general API: https://www.weather.gov/documentation/services-web-api#/ )
Install the reader as you normally would and connect to the Chameleon Database:
Report
Visit NWS Alerts to grab the URL for the state, county level, or geocode and place it in the Reports tab
Below an example of specifying a specific geocode location
Event Priority
Select which events you want to pull from the API and sort them in order of priority.
Ignore Events
You can ignore events from being pulled.
Custom Report
You can create a custom report that would be generated as a dynamic tag called custom report. An example of what this would like like using the Available tags below:
Substitution
You can substitute keywords generated by the reader.
Datafeed
You can set the Included weather type urgency and severity and On-Air condition