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Static Weather Operations Desk

Prairie Pulse Severe Weather Monitor

Midwest-first with Illinois at the center, but built to watch the whole United States. Live MRMS radar, warning polygons, NWS alerts, SPC watches, storm reports, river gauges, point briefings, upper-air soundings, forecast discussions, lightning, GOES satellite overlays, and tropical system status from public no-key data feeds.

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Live Operations Map

Radar, Warnings, Watches, Rivers, Reports, Lightning, and Satellite

Click anywhere on the map to move the point briefing and local outlook.

Tornado
Severe/Watch
Flood
Hail Report
Wind Report
Tropical Marker
River Gauge
Lightning Density
MRMS Reflectivity MRMS radar legend

Scope Alerts

Active NWS Alerts

SPC Products

Active Watches

Tropical Basin

Atlantic / Pacific Status

Recent Severe

Storm Reports

A wider live view of recent reports so the event feed reads across instead of pushing the rest of the page downward.

Nearest WFO Desk

Forecast Reasoning

Area Forecast Discussion and Hazardous Weather Outlook for the selected point.

Flood / Rivers

River Gauge Operations

Nearby gauges resolved around the selected point using NOAA’s river services.

Point Briefing

Central Illinois

SPC Outlook and Hazard Signal

Current point-based convective outlooks from the SPC archive service.

NWS Forecast Window

Nearest official forecast and latest observation for the selected point.

Upper-Air Lab

Sounding Profile

Temperature / Dewpoint Pressure Profile

This is a simplified upper-air profile view, not a full Skew-T, built for static hosting and quick situational awareness.