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NWS Weather Alerts MCP Server

com.olyport/nws-alerts
answering

NWS Weather Alerts is answering right now. Last checked 2 min ago. It exposes 3 tools.

Active weather alerts and warnings from the National Weather Service

Uptime history 40 hours of history
40 hours agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
92 of 92 checks
3
Tools
read from the server
530 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 2 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add nws-alerts --transport http https://mcp.olyport.com/nws-alerts/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "nws-alerts": {
      "url": "https://mcp.olyport.com/nws-alerts/mcp"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.nws-alerts]
url = "https://mcp.olyport.com/nws-alerts/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "nws-alerts": {
      "url": "https://mcp.olyport.com/nws-alerts/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "nws-alerts": {
      "url": "https://mcp.olyport.com/nws-alerts/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 3

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

alert
get_alert_detail
Get full details of a specific NWS weather alert by its ID. Returns the complete alert including description, instructions, and affected areas. Use alert IDs from get_alerts results. Args: alert_id: The full NWS alert ID (e.g. 'urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.xxx').
alerts
get_alerts
Get active NWS weather alerts for a US state. Returns current weather alerts including watches, warnings, and advisories issued by the National Weather Service. Args: state: Two-letter US state abbreviation (e.g. 'CA', 'TX', 'NY'). severity: Filter by severity level: 'Extreme', 'Severe', 'Moderate', or 'Minor'. event: Filter by event type (e.g. 'Tornado Warning', 'Flash Flood Watch'). limit: Maximum number of alerts to return (default 25, max 500).
forecast
get_forecast
Get the weather forecast for a specific latitude/longitude location. Returns a multi-day forecast from the National Weather Service. Works for any location within the United States and its territories. Args: latitude: Latitude of the location (e.g. 38.8894 for Washington DC). longitude: Longitude of the location (e.g. -77.0352 for Washington DC).

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://mcp.olyport.com/nws-alerts/mcp streamable-http answering 526 ms 2 min ago

NWS Weather Alerts — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can NWS Weather Alerts do?
It exposes 3 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_alert_detail, get_alerts, get_forecast. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is NWS Weather Alerts working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 92 of 92 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 530 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect NWS Weather Alerts?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does NWS Weather Alerts need an API key?
No. NWS Weather Alerts completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 3 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is NWS Weather Alerts?
It answers our handshake in 530 ms on average, which is faster than 20% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.