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Severe Thunderstorms for the Eastern Third of the Country; Ice Storm into Portions of Great Lakes and Northeast

Severe thunderstorms containing large hail, damaging winds, tornadoes and frequent lightning with heavy rainfall will spread from the Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee Valleys today then to the East Coast on Monday. Meanwhile, a significant ice storm continues across parts of the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes and Upstate New York and northern New England. For the Southwest, critical fire conditions. Read More >


WMO Standard Format

Default NWS text format in use for over 25-years. Used in SBN/NOAAPORT product streams (Channels 101-108 and 201), over EMWIN (GOES platforms), and on weather.gov.
https://www.weather.gov/tg/headef


XMPP Header wrapped WMO Standard Format

Latest format since July 2015 for text weather information, alerts and warnings via NWWS-Open Interface.  Here are some notes for developers; 

https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0131.html


Common Alert Protocol (CAP V1.2) Format
Alerts and warnings only format; available over SBN/NOAAPORT Channels 101-108 and on weather.gov.

WARNING: CAP v1.1 should not be used to activate local EAS equipment.


NWS also has the following XML feed formats for Alerts and Warnings;

        ATOM Feed
        https://alerts.weather.gov/

        RSS Feed
        https://www.weather.gov/rss