Observations
13 live
Surface observations, mesonets, buoys, and heat/cold stress overlays.
Weather intelligence built for real workflows
Operational Placefiles. Next-generation Intelligence.
PlacefileNation gives radar users fast access to dependable public weather overlays and tools. Now the platform is expanding with MesoPulse — living severe weather intelligence designed to evolve with the atmosphere.
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PLACEFILENATION / PLATFORMPUBLIC PLATFORM
AVAILABLE NOW OPERATIONAL
Placefiles
Operational layers for serious radar workflows.
54endpoints
11families
FREEpublic access
PUBLIC DATAOPERATIONAL LAYERSEVOLVING INTELLIGENCE
LAUNCHING SEPTEMBER 1, 2026CALCULATING…
THE OUTLOOK EVOLVES
Living severe weather intelligence refined every hour as the atmosphere changes.
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Placefiles. Built for radar workflows.
Dependable public overlays, organized by the workflows radar users return to. The complete library lives one click away.
54operational endpoints11product families
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Lightning
4 live
GLM and recent lightning overlays for radar and situational awareness.
Warnings & Alerts
6 live
NWS watches, warnings, advisories, and active hazard overlays.
SPC / WPC Outlooks
10 live
Convective, mesoscale, fire, flood, and forecast hazard products.
Fire Weather
6 live
SPC fire outlooks, wildfire reports, spot forecasts, and fire-danger monitoring.
Flooding / NWPS
2 live
River gauges, NWPS/AHPS, and flood-support layers.
Search, copy, and load the exact endpoint you need.
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NEXT FROM PLACEFILENATION
MesoPulse.
The outlook evolves.
Living severe weather intelligence that evolves with the atmosphere.
Machine-learning post-processing combines large-scale probabilistic guidance with current mesoscale analysis to refine tornado, damaging wind, hail and flooding probabilities every hour.
Rather than remaining fixed between major outlook cycles, MesoPulse reevaluates the environment as new analysis arrives — showing how the threat strengthens, weakens, expands or shifts through the day.
PUBLIC LAUNCH
September 1, 2026
CALCULATING…
MESOPULSE / CURRENT
Living severe-weather outlook
HOURLY
TornadoHAZARD FIELD
Damaging WindHAZARD FIELD
HailHAZARD FIELD
Tornado
Wind
Hail
Severe Impact
Flood — integrating
Hourly evolution
New cycles are designed to show how the risk field changes as fresh analysis arrives.
Hazard-specific
Tornado, damaging wind, hail, and severe impact are distinct products. Flood Impact will appear when operationally published.
Map first
The live interactive map is the centerpiece — not a dashboard full of unrelated widgets.
Change matters
Current risk matters. How it moved, strengthened, weakened, expanded or shifted matters too.
TOOLS
Useful. Fast. No clutter.
Keep the tools radar users actually come here for. Everything else gets out of the way.
PLACEFILE UTILITY
Range Ring Generator
Create a custom range-ring placefile centered on any coordinate.
RADAR PALETTES
Color Curves
PlacefileNation radar palettes for cleaner interpretation and stronger contrast.
PLATFORM FIT
Built Around Radar Workflows
PlacefileNation is not trying to replace your radar software. It is built to make that software more useful.
- Stable public endpoints
- Copy-ready URLs
- Organized product families
- Mobile-friendly access
- Supplemental situational awareness
WHY PLACEFILENATION
Weather data should be easier to use.
PlacefileNation turns public weather data into practical overlays, tools, and intelligence products for people who already know what they want to do with the data.
The goal is straightforward: stable access, fast workflows, clear presentation, and products that are useful during real weather operations.
Stable endpoints
URLs are treated as operational links, not disposable web-page decorations.
Fast access
Search, quick packs, and copy actions cut friction when time matters.
Clear boundaries
Products are supplemental and do not replace official warnings, forecasts, or emergency information.
Build forward
MesoPulse expands the platform without abandoning the placefile users who built the community.
TRUST & TRANSPARENCY
Supplemental weather intelligence.
PlacefileNation provides weather-data placefiles, overlays, mapping tools, and experimental intelligence products. PlacefileNation is not affiliated with the National Weather Service.
Official forecasts, watches, warnings, advisories, and emergency information should always come from the National Weather Service, emergency management, and authorized public-safety sources. Data can fail, delay, or become stale; use all PlacefileNation and MesoPulse products as supplemental situational-awareness tools.