Blizzard Conditions Are Forecast Across Parts of the Northern Plains and Upper Great Lakes

In the north-central U.S., a strong storm will continue to bring heavy snow and gusty to high winds over parts of the northern Plains and Upper Midwest tonight before moving across the Great Lakes with heavy lake effect snow Wednesday into Thanksgiving Day. 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.

Format https://docs.oasis-open.org/emergency/cap/v1.2/CAP-v1.2.html

NWS Source https://api.weather.gov/ (NWWS FAQ #5 for NWS Message IDs)

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

Blizzard Conditions Are Forecast Across Parts of the Northern Plains and Upper Great Lakes

NWS Formats