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Observations
Surface observations, mesonets, buoys, and heat/cold stress overlays.
Lightning
GLM and recent lightning overlays for radar and situational awareness.
mPING
Crowd-sourced reports for precipitation type and ground truth.
CoCoRaHS
Rainfall and snow reports for verification and hydrology workflows.
Warnings & Alerts
NWS watches, warnings, advisories, and active hazard overlays.
SPC / WPC Outlooks
Convective, mesoscale, fire, flood, and forecast hazard products.
Fire Weather
SPC fire outlooks, wildfire reports, spot forecasts, and fire-danger monitoring.
Flooding / NWPS
River gauges, NWPS/AHPS, and flood-support layers.
NWS / Misc
Boundaries, radar-site status, NOAA Weather Radio, and support layers.
Earthquakes
Recent USGS earthquake overlays.
Tropical
NHC Atlantic and Eastern Pacific tropical tracks.