AccuWeather's Alerts API provides severe weather warnings from around the world. Alerts are available in more than 200 languages and dialects.

AccuWeather Alerts

AccuWeather Alerts™ is a premium service developed by AccuWeather that combines the best of our award-winning severe storm warning service at scale across the continental United States. Get severe weather alerts to help make the best decisions for greater personal safety, convenience, and comfort.

Note: AccuWeather Alerts are only available for the 48 contiguous states of the USA.

With AccuWeather Alerts Severe Weather Notifications, receive up-to-the-minute alerts that read "Severe Weather Potential," "Severe Weather Threat," and "Dangerous Weather Imminent!" through our API. These alerts provide details on upcoming and developing severe weather events, including tornadoes, high winds, flash flooding, hurricanes, tropical storms, blizzards, snow, and ice.

AccuWeather Alerts replaces and extends the usefulness of official government weather watches and warnings, describing potential threats for better decision making.

Potential—days ahead

Advanced preparation with early, detailed information.

Threat—current day

Prepare to act with specific, localized details.

Imminent—just prior to and during the event

Take action and stay safe with clear, up-to-the-minute updates.

Government-issued alerts

AccuWeather's government-issued alerts provides severe weather warnings from official government meteorological agencies and leading global weather alert providers worldwide.

• Alert searches require a location key. Please use the Locations API to obtain the location key for your desired location.
• The alert's full text is not returned by default. Include "details=true" in the query string to return the full text.
• If multiple alerts are active for the same location, the alerts will be returned in order of priority within the API response, with the highest priority alert being returned at the top of the response.