RAMADDA's NWS Alert entry type allows you to specify any number of NWS areas or zones. The areas can be any number of state 2-character identifiers, one per line. Zones can be any number of NWS forecast zones, fire zones or county UGC codes. More documentation is available at weather.gov.

• The Forecast Fire Zones map can be viewed at https://ramadda.org/repository/a/nws_fire_weather_map.
• The Forecast Zones map can be viewed at https://ramadda.org/repository/a/nws_forecast_zones_map.
• The county UGC codes can be viewed at https://ramadda.org/repository/a/nws_ugccodes.

You can set the geolocation of the Alerts entry to a point that will be used to show alerts. When editing the entry simply set the latitude/longitude. The display of the alerts can be embedded in other pages with the nws_alerts wiki tag.

{{nws_alerts  entry="the alert entry"}}

The areas or zones can be overwritten with:

{{nws_alerts areas="CO,SD" zones="KSZ081,SDZ049"}}

There can be multiple zones/areas producing mulitple alerts. Some of the alerts coming from different zones/areas can be the same alert. To only show unique alerts do:

{{nws_alerts alertsUnique=true}}

Because the order the alerts are loaded is not deterministic when there are multiple zones/areas then the order they show up in the display can be any order, e.g., if you had a state (e.g., SD) and a county (e.g, SDC121) then if the state alerts load first the county alerts might be subsumed by the ones loaded by the state. To prioritize the loading you can set the following property for a zone/area, e.g. "SD":

{{nws_alerts loadFirst.SD=false}}

This will cause the other areas/zones to be loaded first (e.g, the counties) then the whole state will be loaded. Header labels can be specified with "alertLabel.<area or zone>", e.g.:

{{nws_alerts
alertLabel.SD="All South Dakota Alerts"
alertLabel.point="Boulder Area Alerts"
alertLabel="Label for all alerts"}}

You can specify that the toggle is not shown with:

{{nws_alerts 
showToggle.SD=false 
showToggle.point=false
showToggle=false
}}

You can specify that the toggle is open or closed with:

{{nws_alerts 
toggleOpen.SD=false 
toggleOpen.point=false
toggleOpen=false
}}

The NWS classifies alerts with the following phenomena types. You can specify a message that will be displayed in the header in two ways. First, there is a Header Messages property of the Alert entry where you can add, one per line, messages of the form:
<event>:<message>
Where event is either one of the IDs listed below or one of the Event Types. e.g.:

heat:Some message when heat
AQ:Some message for air quality

Also, when using a custom nws_alerts wiki tag you can specify the properties with, e.g.:

{{nws_alerts
headerMessage.heat="There are heat related alerts. Please see..."
headerMessage.AQ="Some Air quality message"
}}

Click on an event to copy.

ID	Event Type	Description
AQ		Air Quality
AV		Avalanche
BH		Beach Hazards
BZ		Blizzard
SP		Special Weather
DS		Dust Storm
DU		Blowing Dust
EC	cold	Extreme Cold
EH	heat	Excessive Heat
XH	heat	Extreme Heat
HT	heat	Heat
CF	flood	Coastal Flood
FA	flood	Areal Flood
FF	flood	Flash Flood
FL	flood	Flood
LS	flood	Lakeshore Flood
UW	flood	Urban and Small Stream Flood
FG		Dense Fog
FR		Frost
FW		Fire Weather
AF		Ashfall
FZ		Freeze
GL		Gale
HF	wind	Hurricane Force Wind
HU		Hurricane
HZ		Hard Freeze
IP		Sleet
IS		Ice Storm
LB		Lake Effect Snow and Blowing Snow
LE		Lake Effect Snow
LO		Low Water
MA		Marine
RB		Small Craft for Rough Bar
RD		Radiological Hazard
RF		Small Craft for Rough Waters
SC		Small Craft
SE		Hazardous Seas
SI	wind	Small Craft for Winds
SM		Dense Smoke
SN		Snow
SQ		Snow Squall
SR		Storm Surge
SS		Storm Surge
SU		Blowing Snow
SV		Severe Thunderstorm
SW		Small Craft for Hazardous Seas
TO		Tornado
TR		Tropical Storm
TS		Tsunami
TY		Typhoon
UP		Unknown Precipitation
VO		Volcano
WC		Wind Chill
WI	wind	Wind
HW	wind	High Wind
BW	wind	Brisk Wind
EW	wind	Extreme Wind
WS	cold	Winter Storm
WW	cold	Winter Weather
ZF		Freezing Fog
ZR		Freezing Rain