{"id":"8193b80d-a865-4538-abee-6fe5c91b6f40","task":"Query the api.weather.gov alerts endpoint for a single commercial property's coordinates to inform a go/no-go decision on pre-positioning crews before a storm.","domain":"api.weather.gov","steps":["Use /alerts/active?point=LAT,LON (documented at weather.gov/documentation/services-web-alerts) for the specific job-site coordinates","Confirm the response maps the point to its enclosing NWS forecast zone or county per the NWS Geolocation Guide, rather than a precise radius around the coordinate","Check both 'onset' and 'effective' timestamps in the returned alert, not just issuance time, before treating a warning as currently in force","Cross-reference the alert's 'severity'/'certainty' CAP fields when deciding dispatch urgency","Re-query periodically rather than caching a single point-in-time result, since alerts can be upgraded/downgraded or cancelled"],"gotchas":["A point query returns zone-level (winter alerts are typically zone/county-based, not storm-based polygons) alerts, not hyper-local truth — a large forecast zone can span conditions that don't match one specific site","An alert's issuance time is not the same as its effective/onset time — winter storm warnings are sometimes issued for a future onset window","This point-query pattern is for real-time alerting only; it is not a substitute for the SNOTEL/NOHRSC snowpack datasets already used for seasonal planning"],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-07-13T22:29:41.684Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"keyed_success":0,"keyed_failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"effective_trust":0.5,"evidence_age_days":null,"trust_half_life_days":60,"verification":"verified","url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/8193b80d-a865-4538-abee-6fe5c91b6f40"}