Weather Warning (deprecated)

Platform: API

Get officially issued real-time severe weather warning data around the world.

Note: This API (/v7/warning/now) is deprecated and is expected to be out of service on 2026-10-01. Please use Weather Alert API v1 instead.

Endpoint

/v7/warning/now

Parameters

Query parameters

location(required)The location to be queried, support LocationID or comma-separated longitude and latitude (decimal, up to 2 decimal places), LocationID can be obtained by GeoAPI. Example: location=101010100 or location=116.41,39.92
langMulti-language setting, please see Language to find out how our multi-language works and how to set up.

Request example

curl -X GET --compressed \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer your_token' \
'https://your_api_host/v7/warning/now?location=101230201&lang=en'

Replace your_token and your_api_host with your JWT Authentication and API Host

Response

The response is in JSON format and is Gzip compressed.

{
  "code": "200",
  "updateTime": "2023-04-03T14:20+08:00",
  "fxLink": "https://www.qweather.com/severe-weather/shanghai-101020100.html",
  "warning": [
    {
      "id": "10102010020230403103000500681616",
      "sender": "上海中心气象台",
      "pubTime": "2023-04-03T10:30+08:00",
      "title": "上海中心气象台发布大风蓝色预警[Ⅳ级/一般]",
      "startTime": "2023-04-03T10:30+08:00",
      "endTime": "2023-04-04T10:30+08:00",
      "status": "active",
      "level": "",
      "severity": "Minor",
      "severityColor": "Blue",
      "type": "1006",
      "typeName": "大风",
      "urgency": "",
      "certainty": "",
      "text": "上海中心气象台2023年04月03日10时30分发布大风蓝色预警[Ⅳ级/一般]：受江淮气旋影响，预计明天傍晚以前本市大部地区将出现6级阵风7-8级的东南大风，沿江沿海地区7级阵风8-9级，请注意防范大风对高空作业、交通出行、设施农业等的不利影响。",
      "related": ""
    }
  ],
  "refer": {
    "sources": [
      "12379"
    ],
    "license": [
      "QWeather Developers License"
    ]
  }
}

Note: If there is no warning information in the queried location, the warning field is empty.

code See Status Code
updateTime API last update time
fxLink Responsive web page of this data, for embedded in website or APP
warning.id The unique ID of this warning, which can be used to determine whether this warning already exists.
warning.sender Warning issuing unit, may be null
warning.pubTime Warning release time
warning.title Title of warning
warning.startTime Warning start time
warning.endTime End time of warning
warning.status The release status of the warning message, including “Active” and “Update”. When the warning message is “Update”, it means that this warning replaces or updates the warning message specified in related.
warning.level Warning level, this field is deprecated and the value will be null or out of date. Please uses severity instead
warning.severity Warning severity, including “unknown”, “Minor”, “Moderate”, “Severe” and “Extreme”
warning.severityColor Warning severity color, including “White”, “Blue”, “Green”, “Yellow”, “Orange”, “Red” and “Black”. may be null
warning.type Warning event type ID
warning.typeName Warning event type name
warning.urgency The urgency of the warning message, may be null
warning.certainty The certainty of the warning message, may be null
warning.text Description of the warning
warning.related The warning ID associated with this warning, returned when the warning status is update. May be null
refer.sources Data source and other statements, may be null
refer.license Data license, may be null