Easily add official National Weather Service alerts to your website.

John Russell

The National Weather Service Alerts plugin allows you to easily display weather alerts on your website. The 
alerts are pulled directly from the National Weather Service (http://alerts.weather.gov) based on the location 
that you specify and are then parsed, sorted, and output to your website. The alerts are then automatically updated using 
AJAX, based on the severity of the alerts for the specified location. The location can be set by using zipcode, 
city and state, or state and county. There is also the option to choose the scope of what alerts to include, 
such as alerts only for your county, alerts only for your state, or alerts for the entire United States.
If applicable, a Google Map will be included with polygon overlays to show the affected regions of certain alert 
types, such as tornado warnings or flash flood warnings.
Currently the National Weather Service Alerts plugin only works for areas within United States. However, the 
plugin expects Atom feeds that use the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) format so in theory any CAP feed could be 
used.
Features
<ul>
<li>Shortcode</li>
<li>Widget</li>
<li>NWS Alerts settings page for adding the Alerts Bar</li>
<li>Clean html5 markup</li>
<li>CSS classes that make it easy to override default styles</li>
<li>Developer API (filters)</li>
</ul>
Weather Alerts
<ul>
<li>Tornado Warning</li>
<li>Severe Thunderstorm Warning</li>
<li>Flash Flood Warning</li>
<li>Flood Warning</li>
<li>Blizzard Warning</li>
<li>Winter Storm Warning</li>
<li>Freeze Warning</li>
<li>Dust Storm Warning</li>
<li>High Wind Warning</li>
</ul>
*The default weather alert types can be modified using the ‘nws_alerts_allowed_alert_types’ 
and ‘nws_alerts_sort_alert_types’ filter hooks.

National Weather Service Alerts

There's so much potential with this plugin, I'd love to see it worked on further. Specifically:
* Remove all the hard-coded outputs and allow users to use CSS to control their own output. Perhaps even the ability to edit a template of some sort.
* Document the shortcode and add all the variables that are found in the widget.
* Allow the shortcode to access multiple regions instead of just one at a time.

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