Parke County Weather - Complete User Guide

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Recent Updates

New and refined behavior on the Home and National dashboards.

Tsunami information and warnings

The National Dashboard now shows current Tsunami Warnings, Advisories, Watches, Threat products and recent Information Statements. It also has a dedicated sound for a newly detected Tsunami Warning when Audio is enabled.

Always-on dashboard recovery

When a dashboard returns from the background, it checks for an updated page and refreshes its live feeds in a short stagger. This helps wall displays and Home Screen web apps recover from suspended browser timers without sending one large request burst.

Refined tropical landfall guidance

Tropical-cyclone cards more carefully distinguish an NHC-stated or forecast-track U.S. landfall from ordinary cone uncertainty. When supported, the card gives a location and Eastern Time range without treating cone overlap alone as a landfall forecast.

A page reload—automatic or manual—requires a fresh click on Audio Disabled before sounds can play again. Browsers do not allow a previous document to carry playback permission into a new one.

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Quick Start — Which page should I use?

Start with the page that matches the question you are trying to answer.

What is happening locally now? Home Dashboard — observations, local risks, alerts, storm reports, regional awareness, outages and more. What happens tonight or tomorrow? Forecast — period-by-period NWS forecast with temperature, wind and hazard badges. Where is the rain or storm right now? Radar — the official NWS radar viewer centered near Parke County. What do the clouds look like? Satellite — GOES-East imagery with pan, zoom, Parke centering and a GeoColor loop. What are the official risk graphics? Outlooks — SPC, WPC, NHC, reports, watches, discussions, river graphics and seasonal products. How might the weather evolve? Models — loop HRRR, NAM, RRFS, GFS, ECMWF and GEFS products with complete-run checks. What is happening across the country? National Dashboard — highest-risk areas, warnings, tsunami information, earthquakes, tropical cyclones, national outages and CONUS extremes. What do nearby roads look like? Cameras — regional traffic-camera wall with dashboard mode, stale checks and image enlargement.

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Local Dashboard — Complete Tile Reference

A full day-view mockup of every local tile, including cards that normally appear only when conditions warrant.

How to use this reference

The example below is deliberately more crowded than the live dashboard. It shows every possible tile at once, even when two modes cannot normally be active together. Example values explain the data fields; the line beneath each tile explains its display rule and color threshold.

Local Dashboard — all-content reference. Values are examples and do not represent current weather. Example values

Temperature 72.4°F Latest local observation

Gust 10 m 18 mph Peak 10-meter wind gust

Rain 24 h 0.42 in Rolling local total

Nearby CoCoRaHS 0.37 in Observer total when available

Saturday, June 148:42 AM EDT12:42 UTC Sunrise 6:20 AMSunset 9:19 PMObserved 8:35 AM Observation strip: informational, with no severity threshold

Lightning within 20 miles218 strikes ↑

Recent detections, search radius, update time and trend after enough samples are available.

Color: 1–19 mint; 20–199 yellow; 200–499 orange; 500–899 red; 900+ magenta. Trend begins at 10 strikes after two updates.

NWS Indianapolis HeadlinePNS

Example: Weather briefing or Public Information Statement headline, issue time and link to the complete message.

Color: informational blue; it is not a risk level. The strip appears only when a current headline is available.

Five-Day Hazards Outlook

Hazard	Day 1	Day 2	Day 3	Day 4	Day 5
Severe	SLGT	MRGL	NONE	NONE	NONE
Rainfall	MDT	SLGT	MRGL	NONE	NONE
Fire	ELEV	NONE	NONE	NONE	NONE
Winter	MINOR	MOD	MAJOR	NONE	NONE

Severe: general/none gray, marginal mint, slight yellow, enhanced orange, moderate red, high magenta. Days 4–5 probabilities map at 5%, 15%, 30%, 45% and 60%.

Rainfall: none gray, marginal mint, slight yellow, moderate red, high magenta. Fire: none gray, elevated yellow, critical red, extreme magenta.

Winter WSSI-P: advisory 40% mint, minor 40% yellow, moderate 30% orange, major 20% red, extreme 10% magenta. The row is listed October 16–March 31, or outside that season if a five-day risk becomes active. Details also show published snow ≥4/8/12 in and ice ≥0.25 in probabilities.

Local Forecast Discussions

SPC Mesoscale DiscussionMD 1450

Affected area, hazard summary, watch probability, valid time and link to the full discussion.

Color: yellow discussion rail. Hidden when no local SPC discussion is active; an error remains visible in the card.

WPC Mesoscale Precipitation Discussion2 h 18 m

MPD 0432: Flash flooding possible • central Indiana • summary, affected area and time remaining.

Color: yellow discussion rail. Hidden when no local WPC MPD applies.

River & Lake Levels

Wabash River at Montezuma15.4 ft ↑

Observed stage, trend, flood category, observation time and official gage details.

Color: below action gray; action stage mint; minor flood yellow; moderate flood orange; major flood red. Only rising/rapidly rising or action-stage-and-higher gages display.

Local Conditions

Air QualityAQI 114

USG • PM2.5 • AirNow observation time. NOAA surface-smoke context appears when the forecast peak is at least 10 µg/m³.

Color: 0–50 gray; 51–100 yellow; 101–150 orange; 151–200 red; 201–300 magenta; 301+ magenta.

Space WeatherKp 7 • G3

Planetary K-index, NOAA geomagnetic-storm level and latest observation.

Color: Kp 0–4 gray; Kp 5/G1 mint; Kp 6/G2 yellow; Kp 7/G3 orange; Kp 8/G4 red; Kp 9/G5 magenta.

Drought MonitorD2 • 34%

Highest category present anywhere in Parke County, county coverage, map date, and CoCoRaHS month/year precipitation context.

Color: none gray; D0 mint; D1 yellow; D2 orange; D3 red; D4 magenta.

Power Outages184 customers

Customers without power, update time and shortcuts to PC REMC and Duke Energy outage maps.

Color: 0 gray; 1–49 mint; 50–99 yellow; 100–149 orange; 150–299 red; 300+ magenta.

Meteor ShowerPerseids

Peak date, best Parke County viewing window, expected cloud cover and ideal zenithal hourly rate.

Display: one day before through one day after peak. Cloud quality is excellent ≤20%, good ≤40%, fair ≤60%, poor ≤80%, very poor >80%; blue is informational.

Parke County Alerts

NWS AlertSVR • 38 min

Event, headline, areas, issue/expiration times, severity tags and full NWS description/instructions.

Color by NWS severity: unknown mint, minor yellow, moderate orange, severe red, extreme magenta. Confirmed/emergency tornado wording flashes.

County Travel StatusWARNING

Indiana county travel level, guidance text and last update.

Color: advisory yellow; watch orange; warning red. Hidden when Parke County has no active travel status.

Road Closures & Conditions2 closures

Road name, restriction/closure description and reporting source.

Color: closures/restrictions red; condition-only notices blue. Hidden when none; a feed error displays in place.

Local Storm Reports • 40 mi / 48 h4 reports

Type, location, distance, report time, NWS office and remarks. Rain-only LSRs are excluded.

Color: any tornado magenta; hail/wind without tornado red; other reports yellow; no reports gray.

Regional Awareness

Major Weather EventNational trigger

Banner identifies a Tornado Emergency, Flash Flood Emergency or destructive-tag Severe Thunderstorm Warning anywhere in the U.S.

Color: yellow attention banner. Hidden unless one of those high-impact triggers is active.

Regional WatchesTOR Watch 412

Watch number/type, states or areas, expiration countdown, PDS label and probabilities when supplied.

Color: tornado watch purple; severe-thunderstorm watch red; PDS badge gold.

Regional SPC DiscussionsMD 1452

Discussion number, areas, hazard summary, watch probability and time remaining.

Color: yellow discussion rail; hidden when no regional MD is active.

Earthquakes • 250 mi / 2 daysM3.2

Magnitude, place, distance, depth and event time.

Color: below M2.5 mint; M2.5–3.9 yellow; M4.0+ red.

Active Tropical Cyclones

Hurricane ExampleCat 3 • 115 mph

Storm type/name, wind, movement, intensity forecast, NHC-based U.S. landfall status/timing and official cone/details link.

Color: depression/potential cyclone gray; tropical storm pale green; Cat 1 mint; Cat 2 yellow; Cat 3 orange; Cat 4 red; Cat 5 magenta. A supported U.S. landfall signal adds yellow emphasis; cone overlap alone is not treated as a landfall forecast.

Aircraft Over Parke County

N123AB • IND → STL1,120 ft

Local receiver/OpenSky source, aircraft since midnight, callsign/destination, altitude, speed, direction and snapshot-map control.

Color: no aircraft gray; aircraft at/above 1,500 ft mint; lowest aircraft below 1,500 ft red. Confirmed 7500/7700 squawk after six refreshes flashes red.

Indiana Alerts

Tornado WarningTOR • 24 min

Confirmed tornado: county/areas, headline, expiration, threat tags and selectable warning polygon.

Color by NWS severity: unknown mint, minor yellow, moderate orange, severe red, extreme magenta; confirmed/emergency tornado wording flashes. SVR switch can show severe warnings only.

Radar & Satellite ModesIllustrated together

Radar + polygonsWarning loop and selected NWS polygon; a clear fallback is shown if geometry is unavailable.

GeoColor satelliteSatellite display selected from the same viewing controls.

Display: radar and satellite are selected from the Indiana Alerts controls. Viewer colors are informational; warning colors come from the selected alert.

Parke County Forecast

Six-Period NWS ForecastQuiet-mode tile

Today • 78°FShowers likely • SW 12 mph • gust 22 • 60%

Tonight • 61°FPartly cloudy • W 6 mph • 20%

Sunday • 81°FMostly sunny • NW 7 mph • 10%

Sun Night • 63°FMostly clear • light wind • 10%

Monday • 84°FChance storms • S 9 mph • 40%

Mon Night • 66°FStorms possible • S 8 mph • 50%

Display: appears when Indiana warnings are quiet and radar/satellite are off. It contains period, high/low, short forecast, wind/gust and precipitation chance plus a full-forecast link. Blue is informational, not a severity threshold.

Shared risk scale: none/general marginal/low slight enhanced moderate/high impact high/extreme

Normal display behavior: quiet or unavailable tiles continue to follow the dashboard’s existing hide/display rules. If a feed returns an error, the affected card remains visible and shows that error. DATA OK is green, PARTIAL/STALE is yellow, FEED ERROR is red and checking is gray.

Useful interactions on the Home Dashboard

Some risk cards link directly to the official SPC, WPC, AirNow, Drought Monitor or other source page.
Winter Weather details can be expanded when the winter card is active.
Local Storm Reports expand into an individual report list with type, location, distance, time, NWS office and remarks when available.
The Power Outages card opens shortcuts to the PC REMC and Duke Energy outage maps.
The aircraft status control can open a Parke County aircraft snapshot map.
Day/Night switches the dashboard palette. Audio controls notification sound; neither changes the underlying data.
The DATA OK / PARTIAL / STALE / FEED ERROR control opens the detailed Data Feed Status panel.

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National Dashboard — Complete Tile Reference

A full day-view mockup of the U.S. national dashboard, including its conditional tsunami section and optional weather-center camera tile.

National Dashboard — all-content reference. Conditional panels are shown here for explanation; values are examples and do not represent current conditions. Example values

Saturday, June 148:42 AM EDT12:42 UTC Sunrise 6:20 AMSunset 9:19 PM

CONUS High 112°F • Death Valley, CA Latest completed WPC high • Preliminary/Final • YTD high

CONUS Low 28°F • Peter Sinks, UT Latest completed WPC low • Preliminary/Final • YTD low

Highest 24 h Rain 7.82 in • LA NOAA Stage IV QPE maximum and location

CoCoRaHS Daily Max 8.14 in • TX Highest submitted daily observer total

Five-Day National Hazards Outlook

Hazard	Day 1	Day 2	Day 3	Day 4	Day 5
Severe	MDT	ENH	SLGT	5%	NONE
Rainfall	HIGH	MDT	SLGT	MRGL	NONE
Fire	EXTM	CRIT	ELEV	NONE	NONE
Winter	MAJOR	EXTREME	—	—	—

Each cell shows the highest risk anywhere in the CONUS; selecting it opens details and the official product. Maxima in different rows can occur in different locations.

Severe: none/general gray, marginal mint, slight yellow, enhanced orange, moderate red, high magenta; Days 4–5 use 5/15/30/45/60% steps.

Rainfall: none gray, marginal mint, slight yellow, moderate red, high magenta. Fire: none gray, elevated yellow, critical red, extreme magenta.

Winter: row appears only when Major or Extreme WSSI-P probability reaches 30% on at least one of the next five days; Major is red and Extreme magenta.

Tornado Reports

SPC Tornado Reports12 reports

Example: 6 mi SW Example City, KS • 7:14 PM CDT • location, state, report time and SPC remarks for each report.

Color: tornado-report red. The summary and affected row flash when remarks mention injuries or fatalities; all-clear is gray.

Earthquakes

M6.2 • Alaska42 mi depth

U.S. M5+ events from the past two days: magnitude, place, depth and event time.

Color: M5.0–5.9 orange; M6.0+ magenta. Smaller earthquakes are not included on the national page.

Local Camera Snapshot (weather-center mode)

Latest uploaded snapshot?local=1 only

Displays snapshot1.jpg, refreshes every 30 seconds after a successful load and opens a full-size viewer when selected.

Display: requested only in local weather-center mode; hidden if the image is unavailable. Tropical Cyclones and the time row are hidden in that mode. Blue is informational.

National Awareness

National Convective WatchesTOR Watch 412

Watch number/type, states and areas, expiration countdown, PDS label and watch probabilities when supplied.

Color: tornado watch purple; severe-thunderstorm watch red; PDS badge gold. All-clear gray.

SPC Mesoscale Discussions3 active

Discussion number, affected area, hazard summary, watch probability and time remaining.

Color: yellow discussion rail; hidden when no national SPC MD is active.

WPC Mesoscale Precipitation Discussions2 active

MPD 0432: flash flooding likely • Lower Mississippi Valley • summary, affected area and time remaining.

Color: yellow discussion rail; hidden when no national WPC MPD is active.

National Power Outages324,000 customers ↑

Nationwide total, 30-minute trend, update time and leading state totals; Indiana is listed first when active.

Indiana47,300Texas92,100Louisiana68,400

Color: 1–69,999 quiet gray; 70,000–124,999 mint; 125,000–249,999 yellow; 250,000–499,999 orange; 500,000–999,999 red; 1,000,000+ magenta. Change ≤1,000 is steady. Hidden at zero.

Tsunami Information

Tsunami WarningActive

Official headline, issuing center and time, affected area, instructions, and—when available—earthquake magnitude, location, depth and origin time. Selecting the card opens the official product.

Color: the shared SPC scale is used. Warning/high or >3 m threat is magenta; 1–3 m/severe threat red; Advisory or 0.3–1 m/moderate threat orange; Watch/Potential Threat yellow; lower information mint.

Tsunami InformationInformation only

Example: Recent earthquake — no tsunami threat to the United States, including Alaska and Hawaii.

Neutral information: an explicit no-threat statement has no severity dot or colored rail. Information remains eligible for 24 hours from earthquake origin. Active products remain until expiration, cancellation or replacement; the no-expiration fallback is six hours.

Sources and display: NWS supplies active U.S. Warning/Advisory/Watch products and is normally checked about every 10 seconds. NTWC and PTWC at tsunami.gov supply Threat/Information products and backup alert data on an approximately two-minute cycle. The entire panel is hidden when no current item qualifies.

Active Tropical Cyclones

Hurricane ExampleCat 4 • 135 mph

Storm type/name, maximum wind, movement, forecast intensity, NHC-based U.S. landfall status/timing and official cone/details.

Color: depression/potential cyclone gray; tropical storm pale green; Cat 1 mint; Cat 2 yellow; Cat 3 orange; Cat 4 red; Cat 5 magenta. Wind thresholds are 39, 74, 96, 111, 130 and 157 mph. A supported U.S. landfall signal adds yellow emphasis; cone overlap alone is not treated as a landfall forecast.

National Warnings

Tornado Emergency18 min

National Tornado, Severe Thunderstorm and catastrophic Flash Flood warnings: event, headline, areas, expiration, severity/threat tags and full text.

Color by NWS severity: unknown mint, minor yellow, moderate orange, severe red, extreme magenta. Confirmed/emergency tornado wording flashes.

Optional Winter WarningsSwitch on

The “Show Blizzard, Winter Storm and Ice Storm Warnings” switch adds those alert types to the national warning feed.

Color: each alert still uses its NWS severity; the switch itself does not assign a risk level.

Radar & Warning-Polygon ViewerSelect warning

When official geometry is available, selecting a warning opens a seven-frame/30-minute radar loop with Play/Pause, the selected polygon, nearby selectable warning polygons and full details. Tornado and severe-thunderstorm warnings can include county Broadcastify links.

Color: tornado polygons are purple, severe-thunderstorm red, flood green and other warnings yellow. If official geometry is absent, the warning text remains available but the map/radar viewer is omitted.

Warning Data SafeguardAutomatic

After six consecutive NWS warning-feed failures, last-success cards may remain for context but are marked unverified. A “WARNING DATA NOT UPDATING” banner warns that new alerts may be missing.

Use: treat the banner as a loss of live warning coverage and immediately check an official warning source.

Shared risk scale: none/general marginal/low slight enhanced moderate/high impact high/extreme

Normal display behavior: inactive products continue to follow the dashboard’s existing hide/display rules; the Tsunami Information section is absent when no current item qualifies. Errors stay visible in the affected card. CONUS high/low and precipitation colors identify the metric (orange, blue and cyan); they are not hazard thresholds. Preliminary/delayed status uses gold. DATA OK is green, PARTIAL/STALE is yellow, FEED ERROR is red and checking is gray.

Useful interactions on the National Dashboard

Select a five-day matrix cell to see the day’s source, valid period and official product.
Select an eligible warning to open the radar loop, official polygon, nearby active polygons and details; use the winter switch to add Blizzard, Winter Storm and Ice Storm Warnings.
Select a tsunami card to open its official bulletin. Information Statements are kept for up to 24 hours from the earthquake origin; active products follow their expiration, cancellation and replacement state.
On screens wider than 700 pixels, pausing for about two seconds over a supported outlook, watch, discussion or tropical card can show an official-product preview. Selecting the item opens its source.
Day/Night switches the palette, Audio controls alert sounds, Test Sound verifies playback and the feed-health control opens detailed source status.
The optional ?local=1 weather-center mode shows the uploaded camera snapshot and suppresses tropical cyclones and the date/time row.
After returning from the background, the page checks for a newer dashboard version and then staggers immediate feed updates. A newer version may cause one automatic reload while preserving options such as ?local=1.

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Page-by-Page Guide

Every primary destination in the current site menu.

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Home Dashboard

Local observations, outlooks, alerts, NWS Local Storm Reports, regional watches/MDs, earthquakes, tropical activity, air quality, drought, rivers/lakes, outages, aircraft and Indiana warnings.

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Forecast

NWS period forecast for the Rockville area. Each period can show an icon, high/low temperature, wind or gust badge, short forecast, detailed forecast and any warning/watch/advisory that overlaps that period.

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Radar

Embeds the official National Weather Service radar viewer, centered near Parke County with base reflectivity selected. Use the NWS viewer controls for radar layers and navigation.

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Satellite

NOAA GOES-East CONUS imagery with pan, zoom, Center Parke and Refresh controls. GeoColor includes previous/play/next loop controls and a frame readout.

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Outlooks

Auto-refreshing image wall for SPC watches/MDs/outlooks/reports, WPC excessive-rainfall and hazards products, fire weather, river hydrographs, NWS Watch/Warning/Advisory map, seasonal winter products and NHC tropical outlooks.

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Models

Animated Pivotal Weather model viewer with reflectivity, smoke, severe-weather, rainfall, temperature-anomaly and seasonal snowfall products. Includes comparison mode, loop speed, frame controls, refresh and newest-complete-run checks.

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National Dashboard

U.S. highest-risk hazards, watches, discussions, earthquakes, tsunami alerts and information, tropical cyclones, tornado reports, national power outages, national tornado/severe warnings and WPC/Stage IV CONUS extremes.

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Cameras

Regional Indiana/Illinois traffic-camera wall. It reports active/hidden cameras, flags stale images when source timestamps are readable, handles blocked Illinois images, supports a compact Dashboard mode and opens images in a lightbox.

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Photos

Parke County photo gallery with local scenery and weather-related images, including lightning, aurora, flooding, snow rollers, parks and wildlife. Selecting an image opens the full file.

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History

Parke County tornado history and notable event narratives. The current page states that fourteen tornadoes have touched down in Parke County since January 1, 1950 and includes detailed entries for several recent and historical events.

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Safety

Weather-safety reference page. The site renders the local safety PDF in the browser with PDF.js and provides a direct download fallback if the viewer cannot load it.

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Contact

Simple contact form for name, email and message. The form posts to the site's report handler and includes a hidden honeypot field to reduce automated spam.

Satellite products available on the current page

GeoColor; Band 2 Red Visible; Air Mass RGB; Sandwich RGB; Day/Night Cloud Micro Combo RGB; Fire Temperature RGB; Dust RGB; Band 1 Blue Visible; Band 3 Veggie Near IR; Band 5 Snow/Ice Near IR; and Band 13 Clean IR.

Model products available on the current page

Reflectivity: HRRR, NAM 3km, RRFS A and a three-model comparison.
Fire / smoke: HRRR near-surface smoke density.
Severe weather: HRRR/NAM 3km updraft-helicity run max; HRRR/NAM 3km MSLP + 10 m wind; GEFS MSLP + 10 m wind mean.
Rainfall: HRRR, NAM 3km, ECMWF, GFS, GEFS ensemble mean and GEFS 24-hour probability over 1 inch.
Temperature: GEFS 2 m temperature anomaly median / P10-P90.
Snow: 10:1 and Kuchera accumulation products from multiple models; snowfall groups are removed outside November through March.
Run selection: the page checks expected frames before accepting a model cycle and offers a “Latest long-range run” option when the selected product has separate extended cycles.

Seasonal behavior on the Outlooks page

Winter-only graphics are shown during October through March. Tropical-only graphics are shown during June through November. The tropical section includes Central Pacific, Eastern Pacific and Atlantic NHC outlooks.

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How to Read Colors & Vertical Status Bars

Color helps you scan quickly, but always read the product label and details.

Inactive / NoneGray

MarginalMint / green

SlightYellow

EnhancedOrange

ModerateRed

HighMagenta / purple

Why the thin colored bar? On the modern dashboard cards, the left vertical bar is the main severity/status cue. The neutral card surface keeps the text readable in both Day and Night view while the bar preserves the underlying risk color. Different products can use the same colors for slightly different official categories, so the written label is always the final authority.

Tsunami colors: actionable tsunami products use this same shared scale, with official CAP severity and forecast wave-height wording taking priority. A Tsunami Warning defaults to High/magenta, an Advisory to Enhanced/orange, and a Watch or Potential Threat to Slight/yellow. An Information Statement that explicitly says there is no U.S. tsunami threat is deliberately neutral and has no severity bar or dot.

Data Feed Status

DATA OK / Current All expected feeds checked by this browser are current.

Partial A feed returned useful data but part of the expected information is unavailable.

Stale The feed worked, but the returned data is older than the page expects.

Feed Error At least one expected feed failed during the browser's checks.

Checking / Waiting The page has not completed the expected request yet.

The detailed feed panel explicitly says its status is based on requests made by this browser. Use the panel to identify the individual feed that is current, partial, stale, failed or still waiting. The “Clear History” control resets the browser's recorded feed history.

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Audible Alerts

Extra awareness for newly detected events; browser permission and user interaction still matter.

Parke County alerts

The local dashboard has dedicated audio for tornado and severe-thunderstorm warnings, including tag-specific tornado/severe variants, plus many watches, advisories and winter/flood/heat/wind/fire products.

Regional awareness

Regional tornado watches, severe-thunderstorm watches, Mesoscale Discussions and local precipitation discussions can generate separate awareness sounds when newly detected.

National Dashboard alerts

New national Tornado and Severe Thunderstorm Watches and new SPC Mesoscale Discussions have dedicated cues; confirmed/PDS tornado wording and a Tornado Emergency use escalating warning sounds. A newly detected exact Tsunami Warning plays tsunami.mp3 once. Tsunami Advisory, Watch, Threat and Information products do not sound, and a warning already active when the page first opens is silently baselined.

Other monitored events

The local dashboard also includes audio hooks for lightning, significant space-weather conditions, earthquakes, higher power-outage conditions, low aircraft and emergency aircraft conditions.

How to enable sound: use Audio Disabled / Enable Audible Alerts on the dashboard. The Home and National dashboards provide Test Sound to verify playback. A newly loaded or automatically reloaded dashboard starts with audio disabled and requires a fresh click; browsers may block audio until you interact with the page. An event first detected while audio is disabled is not replayed later merely because audio was enabled.

Safety: website audio is supplemental situational awareness. It should never replace Wireless Emergency Alerts, NOAA Weather Radio, official National Weather Service warnings, local emergency management, or other official life-safety notification systems.

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Where the Site Gets Its Information

The current pages combine official public products, local feeds and supporting services.

National Weather Service / weather.gov U.S. Tsunami Warning System / tsunami.gov (NTWC & PTWC) Storm Prediction Center (SPC) Weather Prediction Center (WPC) National Hurricane Center (NHC) Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) NOAA Stage IV QPE NOAA / NESDIS / STAR GOES-East AirNow U.S. Drought Monitor USGS Earthquakes CoCoRaHS WeatherLink local observations Local ADS-B / aircraft data + OpenSky fallback/support Pivotal Weather model imagery Indiana / Illinois traffic-camera sources PC REMC / Duke outage information MassOutage national outage information Iowa Environmental Mesonet / NWS radar mosaics Broadcastify public-safety audio links

Many external services are requested through local PHP proxy/cache endpoints. A source outage, delayed product, browser/network problem or temporary upstream failure can therefore affect one portion of the site while the rest continues to work normally. That is why the dashboards distinguish Partial, Stale and Failed rather than treating every problem as the same condition.

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Troubleshooting & Good Use

A few quick checks solve most confusing situations.

A card says Partial, Stale or Feed Error

Open the Data Feed Status panel first. It identifies the specific feed and separates a partially usable response from stale data or a complete failure.

A warning has no radar polygon

The warning viewer only draws geometry that the alert actually supplied. If official geometry is missing, the warning text remains available but the polygon map and radar loop are not opened.

The Tsunami Information section disappeared

This is normally expected. The entire section is hidden when no current Warning, Advisory, Watch, Threat or recent Information Statement qualifies. Information Statements age out 24 hours after the earthquake origin and can be replaced or cancelled sooner.

The dashboard reloaded after I returned

The always-on dashboards check whether a newer page version was deployed while they were suspended. One automatic reload is normal; page options are preserved, but Audio must be enabled again.

A traffic camera is missing

Unavailable cameras are hidden. Illinois/Travel Midwest images may be blocked by the source; the camera page can show a fallback link instead of a broken image. Timestamp-based stale checks are used only when the browser can read the required source header.

A model run looks old

The Models page intentionally searches for a complete usable cycle. It can skip a newer run whose expected frames are still posting. Use Refresh to make it re-check available cycles.

Snow or tropical graphics are missing

Some products are deliberately seasonal. The local Winter Weather Outlook is hidden April 1 through October 15; model snowfall groups are hidden outside November through March; Outlooks uses seasonal winter and tropical sections.

Use official warnings for decisions

The site is designed for convenient situational awareness. For life-safety decisions, follow official NWS warnings, Wireless Emergency Alerts, NOAA Weather Radio and local authorities.