The main page is a one-page weather dashboard focused on Parke County, Indiana, with added regional awareness. It combines local alerts, Indiana alerts, convective outlooks, watches, mesoscale discussions, storm reports, earthquakes, fire weather, drought, air quality, allergy conditions, power outages, and space weather into one view. The page refreshes key sections automatically so it can act as a near-real-time monitoring page. It also supports optional audible alerts for specific higher-priority events.
Column 1: Parke County Hazards, including SPC outlook, local mesoscale discussions, WPC excessive rainfall, fire weather, space weather, air quality, allergy conditions, drought, and power outages.
Column 2: Parke County Alerts/Reports and Regional Awareness, including regional convective watches, regional mesoscale discussions, and earthquakes.
Column 3: Indiana Alerts.
How colors are used
Most weather hazard pills follow the same severity color scale used by the page logic.
High
High Risk
Most dangerous level. Used for the highest convective or hazard conditions.
Moderate
Moderate Risk
Serious severe-weather conditions or higher-end regional watch emphasis.
Enhanced
Enhanced Risk
Organized or elevated weather concern.
Slight
Slight Risk
Scattered but lower-end severe or hazard threat.
Marginal
Marginal Risk
Isolated or lower-confidence concern.
No Risk / Inactive
No Active Threat
Used when no watches, no local MDs, or no comparable hazard is active.
Winter MD
Winter Weather MD
Regional mesoscale discussions use blue when the discussion concerns winter weather.
Regional mesoscale discussions use orange when the discussion includes IND (Indianapolis) Weather Forecast Office, blue for winter-weather discussions, and yellow for other regional MDs. Regional Tornado Watches are purple and Severe Thunderstorm Watches are red.
What specific sections mean
Section
Purpose
Parke County Alerts/Reports
Shows local NWS alerts for Parke County plus local SPC storm reports. New Parke alerts can show a NEW ALERT badge for a limited time. Confirmed or emergency tornado wording can flash and use a stronger sound.
Indiana Alerts
Shows statewide Indiana alerts, sorted by severity and recency.
Regional Convective Watches
Shows regional Tornado Watches and Severe Thunderstorm Watches that intersect the regional bounding box used by the page. New watches can trigger unique sounds.
Local Mesoscale Discussions
Shows SPC mesoscale discussions affecting the Parke County area. New local MDs can trigger a local MD sound. Countdown timers are shown until expiration.
Regional Mesoscale Discussions
Shows regional MDs filtered to the WFO area group used by the page. New regional MDs can trigger a regional MD sound.
Other hazard pills
SPC outlook, WPC rainfall, fire weather, drought, air quality, allergy conditions, space weather, and outages summarize current hazard status with matching color-coded pills.
Audible alerts
The main page uses an Enable Audible Alerts button. Sounds only play when audible alerts are enabled.
The examples below let you manually test each sound.
General Parke County alert sound. Used for newly issued local alerts that do not match tornado or severe thunderstorm custom sounds.
Parke County Tornado Warning (no damage threat tag). Used for standard tornado warnings.
Parke County Tornado Warning with CONSIDERABLE damage threat.
Parke County Tornado Warning with CATASTROPHIC damage threat.
Parke County tornado warning with stronger wording such as confirmed tornado, on the ground, debris signature, TDS, or tornado emergency wording. This overrides tag sounds.
Parke County Severe Thunderstorm Warning (no damage threat tag). Used for standard severe thunderstorm warnings.
Parke County Severe Thunderstorm Warning with CONSIDERABLE damage threat.
Parke County Severe Thunderstorm Warning with DESTRUCTIVE damage threat.
Plays when a new local SPC Mesoscale Discussion is added for the Parke County area.
Plays when a new Regional Mesoscale Discussion appears.
Plays when a new Regional Tornado Watch is first issued.
Plays when a new Regional Severe Thunderstorm Watch is first issued.
Higher-end Space Weather sound used when Kp alert logic triggers.
Notes
The page is designed as a quick-glance dashboard, not as a replacement for official NWS warning products.
Many items auto-refresh every 1 to 10 minutes depending on the section. For example, regional watches refresh every 60 seconds, alerts every 10 seconds, and several hazard layers every 5 minutes.
Regional watch sounds are designed to play only when a watch is first issued, not when the watch is later updated.