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Fetch all current active watches, warnings, and advisories within the bounding box from 50.0°N, -125.0°W (upper left) to 24.0°N, -66.0°W (lower right) so I can overlay the alert polygons on my map."},{"title":"Historical WWA research for a region","prompt":"What watches, warnings, and advisories were issued over the Tennessee Valley — upper left 37.0, -90.0 and lower right 33.0, -82.0 — between 2024-04-01 00:00:00 and 2024-04-30 23:59:59? Give me up to 100 results."},{"title":"Emergency dispatch area monitoring","prompt":"Check for any tornado watches, flash flood warnings, or other severe weather advisories right now in our county grid, which covers upper left 41.5, -96.5 to lower right 40.5, -95.5. We need the polygon boundaries and times so our dispatch team can see exactly what areas are affected."}],"resultDescription":"Returns a paginated JSON object with total count, limit, offset, and a results array of WWA entries. Each entry includes the polygon geometry as lat/lon pairs, phenomenon type (e.g. 'Tornado Watch'), VTEC identifier string, and issued/begins/ends/expires datetimes in YYYY-mm-dd HH:MM:SS format.","failureModes":["Invalid bounding box coordinates (lat/lon out of range) — likely returns a 422 validation error","begin_time or end_time in wrong format — returns 422 unprocessable entity","No WWAs in the specified region or time window — returns count:0, results:[]","Very large bounding boxes may return truncated results; use limit/offset to paginate","Server errors (5xx) if the upstream MyRadar API is unavailable"],"whenToPreferThis":"Use this endpoint when you need to retrieve weather watches, warnings, and advisories across a geographic region (bounding box), rather than at a single point. It is ideal for map display, regional alerting dashboards, emergency management tools, and historical research over a date range. Prefer the point-based WWA endpoint when you only need alerts for a single location. Prefer this over general forecast endpoints when you specifically need the official NWS polygon boundaries and VTEC codes for alert areas.","instructions":null,"reviewSummary":null,"reviewSummaryHighlights":null,"reviewSummaryConcerns":null,"reviewSummaryGeneratedAt":null,"activationCount":0,"lastUsedAt":null,"lastSuccessfullyRanAt":null,"lastHealthCheckAt":"2026-10-12T18:40:20.427Z","isFirstParty":false,"canonicalSlug":"agents-myradar-dev-watches-warnings-and-advisories-in-a-bounding-box-25dbfd0f"}