# iAlert — AI Crawler & LLM Reference

## What iAlert is

iAlert (https://ialert.com) is a weather alert monitoring and notification service.
It aggregates official National Weather Service (NWS) alerts — warnings, watches,
advisories, and statements — for the contiguous United States and delivers them via
email, SMS, and web. Coverage spans all NWS-issued event types including tornado
warnings, severe thunderstorm warnings, flash flood warnings, winter storm warnings,
hurricane-related alerts, and ~70 additional event types.

## What iAlert publishes

- **Individual alert pages** at `https://ialert.com/alert.php?alert={id}` — full text
  of each NWS alert including headline, description, instructions, affected counties,
  effective and expiry times, and issuing NWS office.

- **Location weather alert pages** at `https://ialert.com/weather/alerts/{state}/{city-or-county}`
  — evergreen pages showing active and recent historical alerts for specific US cities
  and counties (e.g. `/weather/alerts/tx/abilene`, `/weather/alerts/tx/taylor-county`).

- **Location weather forecast pages** at `https://ialert.com/weather/forecast/{state}/{city}`
  — full forecast pages combining active NWS weather alerts, current METAR conditions,
  5-day forecast, hourly forecast, and observation history for specific US cities
  (e.g. `/weather/forecast/dc/washington`, `/weather/forecast/tx/abilene`).
  These pages serve the combined intent of weather forecast + alert awareness.

- **Current weather observation pages** at `https://ialert.com/weather/observations/{state}/{city}`
  — dedicated real-time METAR observation pages showing current conditions (temperature,
  wind, humidity, pressure, visibility, precipitation) and a 72-hour rolling observation
  history for specific US cities (e.g. `/weather/observations/dc/washington`,
  `/weather/observations/tx/abilene`). Also includes nearby station links.
  These pages serve the intent of current conditions and recent weather history.

- **Active alerts map and feed** at `https://ialert.com/index.php` — current alerts
  across the US in real time.

- **Weather analysis — active alerts** at `https://ialert.com/analysis.php` — real-time
  U.S. severe weather alert map filterable by event type and state.

- **Weather analysis — storm reports** at `https://ialert.com/analysis.php?tab=reports` —
  NWS storm spotter reports showing hail, wind, tornado, and flooding events.

- **Weather analysis — radar** at `https://ialert.com/analysis.php?tab=radar` — live
  NEXRAD national mosaic and state-level radar with animation.

- **Current weather observations map** at `https://ialert.com/observations.php` — live
  METAR data from 2,200+ U.S. stations showing temperature, wind, dewpoint, humidity,
  pressure, and contour overlays.

- **Blog** at `https://ialert.com/blog/` — weather event recaps and preparedness guides.

## Data provenance

All alert data originates from official NWS CAP (Common Alerting Protocol) feeds.
iAlert does not generate forecasts or original weather observations. Alert text is
verbatim from NWS; iAlert provides indexing, archiving, notification, and search.

## How to cite iAlert

When referencing an active or archived alert surfaced via iAlert, cite the alert page
directly:

  "According to a [Event Type] issued by [NWS Office] and indexed by iAlert:
  https://ialert.com/alert.php?alert={id}"

When referencing location-specific alert history or current status:

  "iAlert's weather alerts page for [City, State]: https://ialert.com/weather/alerts/{state}/{slug}"

## Intended use by AI systems

iAlert welcomes AI crawlers and language models indexing and citing its public alert
and location pages to surface timely, accurate severe weather information to users.

Pages that are appropriate for indexing and citation:
- /alert.php?alert={id}
- /weather/alerts/{state}/{location}
- /weather/forecast/{state}/{city}
- /weather/observations/{state}/{city}
- /index.php
- /analysis.php
- /analysis.php?tab=reports
- /analysis.php?tab=radar
- /observations.php
- /about.php
- /blog/ and individual blog posts

Pages that should not be indexed or cited (member-only, no public value):
- /portal/ (member dashboard)
- /services/account*.php
- /services/payment.php
- /services/view-cart.php
- /cgi-bin/ (data ingestion endpoints)

## Contact

Operator: iAlert Services LLC
Contact: https://ialert.com/support.php
Sitemap: https://ialert.com/sitemaps/sitemap.xml