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Severe Storms in the Upper Midwest and Northern Plains Saturday; Increasing Heat Across the South

Scattered severe thunderstorms capable of producing damaging winds, large to very large hail and a couple of tornadoes will be possible Saturday afternoon in the Upper Midwest and Great Plains. Stronger storms may produce heavy to excessive rainfall. Simmering heat will impact areas from the Southwest to the Gulf Coast and Southeast this weekend. Heat indices may exceed 100 degrees. Read More >

National Weather Service Dissemination

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NWWS OI Request

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The NWS enterprise NOAA Weather Wire Service (NWWS) is a combined Internet (Open Interface) and satellite (SBN/NOAAPORT Channel 201) dissemination platform for critical weather information, alerts and warnings to the public in text format.

NWS recommends using both the Internet and satellite interfaces to provide the highest product availability to the user.

The NWWS Open Interface (NWWS-OI) requires an NWS issued User_ID and password.  The satellite service (NWWS-PID201) does not.  PID201 can be received via a 1.8m satellite dish (2m+ is recommended to reduce side-band interference).

NWWS-OI requires an XMPP reader or commercial software to access the message text.  Information on configurations and software requirements is available on the NWWS webpage.

NWWS is one method used by television and radio broadcasters to activate the local Emergency Alert System (EAS)
 

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NWWS OI Request

 

For NWWS-Open Interface message detail (other than just header information), 

XMPP reader software (commercial or user developed) is required. 

 
To request a user_id and password for NWWS Open Interface access, please provide the following:
 


















 

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Multiple Accounts

 

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Remember:   If multiple accounts are run from the same computer system
the system will shut down.
 

NOTE: NWS processing of your request may take as long as 10-days or more depending on weather conditions (critical weather days) and NWS priority requirements.