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SERVICE CHANGE NOTICE 25-73
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HEADQUARTERS SILVER SPRING MD
1250 PM EDT THU SEP 18 2025
TO: SUBSCRIBERS:
-NOAA WEATHER WIRE SERVICE
-EMERGENCY MANAGERS WEATHER INFORMATION NETWORK
-NOAAPORT
OTHER NWS PARTNERS, USERS AND EMPLOYEES
FROM: GEORGE JUNGBLUTH, DIRECTOR
NWS OFFICE OF DISSEMINATION
SUBJECT: DECOMMISSIONING OF THE ALERTS WEBPAGE
EFFECTIVE DECEMBER 2, 2025
EFFECTIVE ON OR ABOUT DECEMBER 2, 2025, THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE (NWS) WILL DECOMMISSION THE ALERTS WEBPAGE CURRENTLY
ACCESSIBLE AT THE FOLLOWING URLS:
HTTPS://ALERTS.WEATHER.GOV
HTTPS://ALERTS-V2.WEATHER.GOV/
THE DECOMMISSIONING OF THE ALERTS WEBPAGE IS PART OF A LARGER
EFFORT BY THE NWS TO TRANSFORM ITS DISSEMINATION SERVICES,
INCLUDING UPDATING AND CONSOLIDATING DISPARATE DISSEMINATION
APPLICATIONS INTO MORE MODERN, SCALABLE AND USEFUL SERVICES.
THE ALERTS WEBPAGE DUPLICATES SOME OF THE FUNCTIONALITY ALREADY
OPERATING AS PART OF THE NWS API HTTPS://API.WEATHER.GOV AND THE
HTTPS://WEATHER.GOV WEBSITES. THE NWS WILL CONTINUE TO PROVIDE
ALL OF THE DATA AVAILABLE ON THE ALERTS WEBPAGE VIA EXISTING
ALTERNATIVE OPERATIONAL SYSTEMS.
ALTERNATIVES FOR THE ALERTS WEBPAGE:
1) RETRIEVE ALERTS THROUGH THE API ALERTS ENDPOINT
HTTPS://API.WEATHER.GOV/ALERTS IN GEOJSON, JSON-LD, ATOM, OR CAP
XML. USERS THAT REQUIRE HUMAN-READABLE PLAIN TEXT FORMAT WILL
NEED TO CONVERT FROM ONE OF THE AVAILABLE FORMATS. THIS OPTION
IS PRIMARILY MEANT FOR MACHINE-TO-MACHINE COMMUNICATION. THE
NWS WILL MAKE SAMPLE CONVERSION CODE AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST. API
DOCUMENTATION CAN BE FOUND AT THE FOLLOWING URL:
HTTPS://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/DOCUMENTATION/SERVICES-WEB-API
2) VIEW HUMAN-READABLE ALERTS ON THE HTTPS://WEATHER.GOV WEBSITE
BY ENTERING A ZIP CODE LOCATION OR BY CLICKING ON AREAS OF THE
MAP WHERE THERE ARE ACTIVE HAZARDS. THIS OPTION IS PRIMARILY
FOR WEB BROWSER USERS WHO WANT TO VIEW ALERT DETAILS FOR A
SPECIFIC AREA.
3) VIEW HUMAN-READABLE ALERTS ON THE HTTPS://RADAR.WEATHER.GOV
WEBSITE.
NWS WEBSITE USER EXPERIENCE CHANGES:
AS A RESULT OF THE ALERTS WEBPAGE DECOMMISSIONING, CHANGES ARE
REQUIRED ON OTHER NWS WEBSITES THAT WILL HAVE A SLIGHT IMPACT ON
THE USER EXPERIENCE. THESE CHANGES AND USER EXPERIENCE IMPACTS
ARE DESCRIBED IN THE DOCUMENT LINKED BELOW.
USER EXPERIENCE CHANGES DUE TO ALERTS WEBPAGE DECOMMISSIONING
HTTPS://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/MEDIA/NOTIFICATION/REF/UX_CHANGES_ALERTS
_WEBPAGE_DECOMMISSIONING.PDF
PLEASE DIRECT QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS TO:
NWS WEB FEEDBACK
NWS.WEBFEEDBACK@NOAA.GOV
NATIONAL SERVICE CHANGE NOTICES ARE ONLINE AT:
HTTPS://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/NOTIFICATION/
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