Weather
Put National Weather Service alerts for your area on the air as a text message on a talkgroup, so every radio listening to it on this server sees a tornado warning the moment NWS issues one. Work down this page in order.
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Switch weather alerts on
Off keeps everything you entered, so pausing alerts never means typing it all again. Watching, QSP asks the National Weather Service for active alerts in your area once a minute and shows them below. Only with Put alerts on the air switched on are they transmitted; without it the page previews, showing exactly what would be sent. Changes take effect when you save; no restart is needed.
This server cannot send alerts
Its DMR listener is off, so there is nothing to put a text on the air with. Alerts are shown here but cannot go out.
Alerts stay on this server. They go to this server's own hotspots and Motorola repeaters, and are never sent to linked QSP servers or bridged networks: a linked server elsewhere has its own Weather page for its own area.
1. Your area
These are the same codes SkywarnPlus and other alert tools use. A county code has a C in the middle, such as TXC121 for Denton County, Texas; a forecast zone code has a Z, such as TXZ103. NWS issues most warnings by county and most watches and advisories by zone, so give both for your area. To find yours, choose your state under Find your codes: QSP asks NWS for every county and zone in it, by name, and Add puts one in the box. (NWS retired alerts.weather.gov, where these used to be looked up, in December 2025; what is in effect now is at weather.gov/alerts.) A county code also catches alerts NWS issues by zone for that county, so if you give only one, give the county. Check codes asks NWS about each one and shows the name it has for it, so a mistyped code shows up here rather than as quiet weather.
Add your county code too. Tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings are issued by county, so with only forecast-zone codes they would be missed. A county code has a C in the middle, such as TXC121.
2. Which alerts
Every warning and Every watch cover whatever NWS calls them: a Flood Watch and a Winter Storm Warning as much as a Tornado Warning. Tick single kinds instead if you want fewer. Tests and exercises NWS sends are never used, whatever is ticked. Each alert is sent once, and again only if NWS makes it last longer; the reissues that follow a storm as it moves are not sent. When you switch alerts on, or tick another kind or add a county, what is already in effect goes out within a minute. Only a restart of QSP is silent, so an upgrade never repeats what was sent before it.
3. Where alerts go
An alert goes out as a group text, the same kind the This server page sends, to this server's own hotspots and Motorola repeaters on the talkgroup — but never to linked servers or bridged networks, because weather is local. A radio shows it from the ID below, so choose one that no radio of yours uses; a radio does not show a text from its own ID. Alerts go out at least fifteen seconds apart and at most six in ten minutes, warnings first; in a busy storm the rest wait their turn rather than being dropped, unless they expire first.
Sends one text reading “QSP WEATHER TEST: this is only a test” on the saved talkgroup, from the saved ID, to this server's stations. Save first if you have changed them.
4. Your contact email
The National Weather Service asks every program that reads its alerts to say who runs it, and refuses ones that do not. QSP sends this address with each request and nowhere else.
What QSP sees
Every alert NWS has for your area right now, and what QSP decided about it. The text beside each is exactly what a radio shows. Sent alerts say when; held and waiting ones say why. In Preview, nothing here has been transmitted.