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Major Winter Storm Ongoing in the Upper Midwest; Severe Weather Tonight from the Mid-South to the Ohio Valley

A major winter storm will continue to bring blizzard conditions, heavy snowfall, icing, and strong winds through Monday across the Upper Midwest and Upper Great Lakes. A line of storms will be capable of producing widespread damaging winds, tornadoes, and some large hail from the Mid-South to the Ohio Valley and the Southeast through tonight, moving into the Mid-Atlantic Monday. 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