Below are various resources from across the Weather Enterprise including links to commercial, academic, and governmental products and services. These lists contain the providers/services that we know. If you are a provider of a weather, water, or climate alerting service and want your service added to the lists below, please contact us at: wrn.feedback@noaa.gov (this email address is not for subscribing to NWS alerts.)
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Company listings are in alphabetical order. Global/national-level products are followed by regional/local-scale products. |
| A3M Global Monitoring | general | $ | Global/national-scale | With Global Monitoring, alerts are location based and focused on hazards that could impair travel. Along with political unrest, security, and many other types of events, notifications are also sent for hurricanes, earthquakes, flooding, volcanic ash, and other meteorological phenomena. | ||
| Alabama SAF-T-Net | Mobile Alerts | general | FREE | Global/national-scale | Alabama residents can sign up for severe weather notifications in multiple formats. | Alabama |
| AlertFM | general | FREE / $ | Global/national-scale | Users can purchase FM receiver devices or receive alerts via text, email, or app. Their alert and messaging system allows emergency management officials to create and send alerts to recipients based on geographic or organizational groupings. Alerts can include NWS weather watches and warnings, evacuation instructions, homeland security notices, Amber Alerts, or school closings. | ||
| AnythingWeather Communications | severe, specific lightning and hail | $ | Global/national-scale | Subscribe to NWS watches and warnings, lightning strikes and mapping, hail reports, or variable weather conditions. | ||
| Asher Group | Hyper-Reach | general | $ | Global/national-scale | Hyper-Reach is an advanced SaaS emergency mass notification platform that is used to reach as many people as needed when emergencies strike with multiple ways to send alerts, targeted emergency notifications and automated emergency warnings. Hyper-Reach is integrated with the National Weather Service and FEMA Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS). | |
| AWARN | general | $ | Global/national scale | AWARN technology is open standards-based, terrestrial broadcasting of public alert and warnings. AWARN will have the capability to distribute rich media alerts simultaneously to an unlimited number of enabled fixed, mobile, and handheld devices, indoors or outdoors across an entire television broadcast coverage area. | ||
| Call Loop | general | FREE | Global/national-scale | Quickly send out voice and text messages to your business or large contact list for free. | ||
| DAPage, LLC | general | $ | Global/national-scale | Organizations can become a customer in order to use their Software as a Service product to alert their users and subscribers. | ||
| DialMyCalls.com | general | $ | Global/national-scale | Organizations can send thousands of alerts per second in order to quickly reach all recipients in the case of emergency or severe weather. | ||
| Early Alert | IAWS | general | $ | Global/national-scale | The Integrated Alert and Warning System allows your list of recipients to be alerted of selected events and hazards via many methods of transmission. | |
| FEMA | Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) | general | FREE | Global/national-scale | A majority of newer mobile devices will be able to receive these free emergency messages sent by authorized government authorities for situations such as extreme weather, AMBER, and presidential alerts. | |
| FirstCall Alerts App | general | $ | Global/national-scale | Emergency managers and directors can send alerts and updates to their personnel and staff via a wide variety of devices and methods. General emergency alerts can be sent as well as NWS alerts. Technology is also available to reach the hearing impaired. | ||
| HazardCall | HazardCall | general | $ | Global/national-scale | HazardCall is a service designed for communities that incorporates WeatherCall services with NWS Impact Based Warning tags for observed/confirmed tornado warnings and extreme thunderstorm warnings. | |
| iAlert.com | general | FREE / $ | Global/national-scale | Users can see weather data for free on their webpage, and sign up for free severe weather alerts for a single city. Other various forecast and alerting packages are available as well. | ||
| ifWeather.com | general | $ | Global/national-scale | Users specify a location, set of weather conditions, a time period to be notified, and the method by which they are alerted. | ||
| interactiveNWS | https://inws.ncep.noaa.gov/ | warnings | Available only to NWS core partners that meet the "Terms of Use" found on website | Global/national-scale | Receive email and/or text messages of NWS warnings and other products that the user pre-defines along with defining the geographic coverage. | |
| Iteris, Inc. | ClearPath Weather | winter | $ | Global/national-scale | ClearPath Weather is a winter road information service that supports decision makers in effectively managing winter weather road issues. Data and site-specific forecasts are available. Another service is customizable email or text message alerts for observed and forecasted weather and pavement conditions, as well as NWS watches, warnings, and advisories. | |
| Murray & Trettel | Storm Warnings | general | $ | Global/national-scale | Businesses or any weather-sensitive organization can receive severe weather notifications for a variety of events. Alerts are customizable based on specific needs, and a meteorologist is available by phone 24/7 for up-to-the-minute weather details. | Oklahoma |
| OnSolve | CodeRED | general | $ | Global/national-scale | OnSolve's CodeRED is a way by which government agencies can easily deliver geo-targeted, time-sensitive information and alerts to customers. Alerts include severe weather alerts from the NWS. CodeRED is fully integrated with the Integrated Public Alerts & Warning System (IPAWS) from FEMA. | |
| OnSolve | MIR3 | general | $ | Global/national-scale | OnSolve's MIR3 option is focused on business alerting and notification, serving many of the world's largest brands and companies. Federal agencies also use this solution to maintain business continuity during critical events and natural disasters. | |
| OnSolve | Send Word Now | general | $ | Global/national-scale | OnSolve's Send Word Now platform is another option for communication and collaboration for businesses and government agencies. Two-way communication is possible between the company and individuals receiving the alerts. | |
| OnSolve | One Call Now | general | $ | Global/national-scale | The One Call Now platform is an emergency alerting system specifically for very small businesses, educational institutions, and religious organizations. | |
| OnSolve | SmartNotice | general | $ | Global/national-scale | The SmartNotice platform is similar to OnSolve's other mass communication systems, but is ideal for small to medium businesses. | |
| PraxSoft | general | $ | Global/national-scale | PraxSoft offers three products that aid in alerting and communication. For weather, WeatherActive provides real-time data on local conditions, and built-in alarms will automatically alert users to potentially dangerous conditions. The system collects, integrates, analyzes, and displays meteorological sensor data and the information can improve decision making, inform the public, or draw traffic to a website. | New Hampshire | |
| Simple Weather Alert | general | $ | Global/national-scale | Simple Weather Alert is a fully automated service and is very customizable as to what your business or group needs. Some services include automatic alerts posted to your website or Twitter account. | ||
| Skyview Weather | general | $ | Global/national-scale | Skyview Weather offers alerts for lightning and severe weather. Also available are winter weather, fire weather, and flash flood support, snow reports, custom weather forecasts, special event coverage, and education and training. | ||
| SMS Tsunami Warning | earthquake, tsunami | FREE / $ | Global/national-scale | Users can sign up for a free email list that sends notifications when an earthquake could possibly cause a tsunami. There are package plan options to purchase SMS notifications for the same hazard. | ||
| Swift Weather | general | $ | Global/national-scale | Swift Weather offers users access to custom weather graphics and weather & GIS data. Another option is Weather Defender, a product that provides public safety agencies, utilities, contractors, and other organizations with weather data, tracking systems, and alerts to minimize risk and maximize preparedness. Citizens can also take part with the residential edition of Weather Defender. | ||
| ThunderEagle | general | $ | Global/national-scale | Thunder Eagle designs and manufactures NOAA weather alert radios and communication interface systems for the dissemination of severe weather information on multiple communications systems. They also create and host weather websites for businesses, schools, and governments throughout the United States. These sites are linked at http://alerteagle.alerteagle.com/. | ||
| UrgentWeatherAlerts | general | Free | Global/national-scale | Subscribers can choose the alerts types they wish to subscribe to via SMS.. | ||
| WeatherBuild | general | $ | Global/national scale | WeatherBuild® offers a suite of decision support solutions that empower contractors, owners and operators to improve situational awareness and make better-informed decisions about weather events, schedule impacts, safety risks and probable outcomes. | ||
| Weather Predator | Weather Alerts | general | FREE | Global/national-scale | Severe weather alerts by SMS or email for SW Indiana, W.Kentucky, S.Illinois, SE Missouri. Users can also register for free in order to submit storm reports for this region. | |
| Weather Underground | Mobile and Email Alerts | general | FREE | Global/national-scale | Weather Underground offers mobile and email alerts for severe weather. | |
| Weather USA | Subscriptions | general | FREE / $ | Global/national-scale | Users can subscribe to severe weather alerts via SMS, phone call, or email. Two packages are available depending on number of devices. Preferences are customizable. | |
| weatherUSA | Business Services | general | $ | Global/national-scale | Severe weather alerts are available to notify those associated with your business. Also available are decision support services, event forecasts, and Weather API. | |
| WeatherCall | general | $ | Global/national-scale | WeatherCall offers personal notification services for a fixed location, as well as web-based notifications that follow a smart phone's GPS services when requested by the user. A commercial version, called WeatherCall Enterprise, is also available for businesses in need of more sophisticated weather risk management needs. WeatherCall can also be implemented in schools. | ||
| weatherTAP | general | $ | Global/national-scale | weatherTAP is online, subscription based weather service. Products available through a subscription include current data, forecasts, model data, radar and satellite images, as well as information on lightning, aviation weather, severe threats, and global weather. Their corresponding RadarLab HD+ product offers severe weather text alerts and sound alarms in the case of severe weather threats. | ||
| weatherUSA | general | FREE / $ | Global/national-scale | Users can access current weather data and forecasts via their webpage and app. They also offer weather alerts by text and email, with the option to upgrade to a premium subscription to receive alerts by phone and for more devices. Also available are weather alerts for businesses and organizations. | ||
| WeatherWatch Service | 24 Hour Weather Alert | general | $ | Global/national-scale | Users can sign up for a variety of watches, warnings, and advisories, with price dependent on how many types of warnings they wish to receive. | |
| Wilkens Weather Technologies | general | $ | Global/national-scale | Wilkens Weather Technologies specializes in offshore and marine forecasting for the oil & gas and petrochemical industries. Alerts specific to squall lines and lightning are available, as well as historical analysis, on-site meteorological services, media production services, and more. | ||
| Alachua County SkyWarn | Alachua County EMWIN Project | general | Regional/Local-scale | Subscribe to a number of NWS product packages depending on the type of severe weather warnings desired. | Alachua County Area | |
| CT Weather | Paid Services | general | $ | Regional/Local-scale | CT Weather offers a number of fee-based subscription services to residents and companies of Connecticut. These include forensic reports, extensive and detailed storm forecasts, official snowfall total reports, degree day reports, 30-day forecasts, STORM FORCE notifications, NWS alerts, and radio station information. | Connecticut |
| CT Weather | E-Notifications | general | FREE | Regional/Local-scale | Free to residents of Connecticut, users can subscribe to free alerts for weather related cancellations, announcements, and other notifications. | Connecticut |
| ReadyNH.gov | general | FREE | Regional/Local-scale | New Hampshire residents can receive severe weather alerts via multiple methods of transmission. Other customizable alerts include emergency, community, and missing person notifications. | ||
| Oklahoma Weather Notification System | general | FREE | Regional/Local-scale | Oklahoma residents can subscribe to NWS alerts for up to five counties and customize which alerts they want to receive. |
