National Weather Service
The National Weather Service (NWS) is a government agency within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) that is responsible for providing weather forecasts, warnings, and other meteorological information to the public, government agencies, and private industries.
Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.
API Evangelist profiles National Weather Service the way a machine reads it — 20 machine-readable artifacts across 13 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — National Weather Service scores 37.9/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile National Weather Service
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for National Weather Service. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 13
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
National Weather Service Alerts API
The Alerts API from National Weather Service — 8 operation(s) for alerts.
National Weather Service Aviation API
The Aviation API from National Weather Service — 7 operation(s) for aviation.
National Weather Service Glossary API
The Glossary API from National Weather Service — 1 operation(s) for glossary.
National Weather Service Gridpoints API
The Gridpoints API from National Weather Service — 4 operation(s) for gridpoints.
National Weather Service Icons API
The Icons API from National Weather Service — 3 operation(s) for icons.
National Weather Service Offices API
The Offices API from National Weather Service — 8 operation(s) for offices.
National Weather Service Points API
The Points API from National Weather Service — 3 operation(s) for points.
National Weather Service Products API
The Products API from National Weather Service — 9 operation(s) for products.
National Weather Service Radar API
The Radar API from National Weather Service — 7 operation(s) for radar.
National Weather Service Radio API
The Radio API from National Weather Service — 1 operation(s) for radio.
National Weather Service Stations API
The Stations API from National Weather Service — 7 operation(s) for stations.
National Weather Service Thumbnails API
The Thumbnails API from National Weather Service — 1 operation(s) for thumbnails.
National Weather Service Zones API
The Zones API from National Weather Service — 6 operation(s) for zones.
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Open Collections 1
Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
weather.gov API
OPEN COLLECTIONPricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
National Weather Service Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Security Posture 2
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Every other property we hold for National Weather Service — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 1
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Company 2
The organization behind the API
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