We are migrating from NTFY.wx5fwd.net to Pushover.net for notifications
Who? Everyone using our NTFY.wx5fwd.net notification service should move to our Pushover notification service as explained below.
What? We are moving our weather message notifications from using the NTFY service to the Pushover.net service. We are publishing the same weather products, for the same warning forecast offices and areas, as on NTFY, except for a few areas that have no subscribers. After 30 days of free use, each user account on Pushover will require a one time $4.99 subscription fee per Pushover application, e.g. IOS, Android, or Desktop. For that one time $4.99 fee, your Pushover account is permitted to have ten (10) devices registered to it.
When? You may install Pushover and subscribe to our notifications topics on Pushover (below) now. Then you may unsubscribe from our NTFY topics, and/or uninstall NTFY. We are planning to discontinue our NTFY service Friday, Oct 31, 2025.
Where? This page will provide details for our weather notification service going forward.
Why? Pushover.net is similar to NTFY, but offers some advantages such as better Phone applications and services. We won't need to run our own server.
Weather notifications are available from our Weather Message Server by way of the Pushover App. Notifications are available for the entire FWD County Warning Area (CWA) or geographic areas that are based on the Council of Government (COG) Regions. The COG areas are for those who are not interested in receiving every notification in the entire CWA.
You can use either the Pushover phone app or a web browser to receive notifications. The app is available from both the Apple Store and the Google Play Store. Both the app and web browser versions are configured by subscribing to a topic via the link buttons below.
What notifications will you be receiving?
- Area Forecast Discussion (AFD) – is a product from the local NWS office, for the media and emergency management. This product contains Key Messages regarding the weather for both the short- and long-term period (today and the next 5-7 days).
- Special Weather Statements – issued for hazards that have not yet reached warning or advisory status or that do not have a specific code of their own. Commonly used when radar indicates a strong thunderstorm is producing small hail or high winds whose strength does not reach the criteria to be designated a severe thunderstorm.
- Severe Weather Warnings – includes warnings issued for Flash Flooding, Severe Thunderstorms, and Tornado Warnings.
- Winter Weather Notifications – includes watches, warnings, and advisories issued for Blizzards, Blowing Snow, Freezing Rain, Heavy Snow, Ice Storms, Lake Effect Snow, Lake Effect Blowing Snow, Sleet, Snow, Snow and Blowing Snow, Wind Chill, Winter Storm, and Winter Weather.
- Space Weather - alerts, watches, and warnings are available under the NOAA-SPACE topic.
WX5FWD SKYWARN® Team Weather Message Server Topic Names
Click on one or more Notification Topic Names (left column) to subscribe via Pushover.
| Subscribe | Notification Area | Counties |
|---|---|---|
| FWD | Fort Worth Texas (FWD) CWA | Entire 46 County Warning Area |
| FWD-ATCOG | Ark Tex COG | Delta, Hopkins, Lamar |
| FWD-BVCOG | Brazos Valley COG | Leon, Robertson |
| FWD-CTCOG | Central Texas COG | Bell, Coryell, Hamilton, Lampasas, Milam, Mills |
| FWD-ETCOG | East Texas COG | Anderson, Henderson, Rains, Van Zandt |
| FWD-HOTCOG | Heart of Texas COG | Bosque, Falls, Freestone, Hill, Limestone, McLennan |
| FWD-NCTCOG | North Central Texas COG | Collin, Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Erath, Hood, Hunt, Johnson,Kaufman, Navarro, Palo Pinto, Parker, Rockwall, Somervell, Tarrant, Wise |
| FWD-NORTEX | Nortex Regional Planning Commission | Jack, Montague, Young |
| FWD-TCOG | Texoma COG | Cooke, Fannin, Grayson |
| FWD-WCTCOG | West Central Texas COG | Comanche, Eastland, Stephens |
| Surrounding Forecast Offices | ||
| OUN | Norman Oklahoma (OUN) CWA | Entire 48 County Warning Area. |
| AMA | Amarillo Texas (AMA) CWA | Amarillo Texas WFO County Warning Area |
| SHV | Shreveport LA (SHV) CWA | Shreveport LA WFO County Warning Area |
| SJT | San Angelo Texas (SJT) CWA | San Angelo Texas WFO County Warning Area |
| TSA | Tulsa Oklahoma (TSA) CWA | Tulsa Oklahoma WFO County Warning Area |
| Sun Activity / Space Weather | ||
| NOAA Space | Earth | NOAA Space Weather alerts and warnings that could impact radio communications. ALT - Space Environment Alert, SUM - Space Weather Message, WAR - Space Environment Warning, WAT - Space Environment Watch |
Install the Pushover app if you don’t already have it, or use the Pushover.net Desktop web interface.
- Go to the app store of your phone’s flavor,
- Search for and download Pushover to your device.
- Login or Signup on Pushover.net. Free for 30 days.
- Subscribe to one or more topics shown above.
Current NTFY Subscribers - Unsubscribe from our NTFY topics.
- Open your ntfy app,
- Click on the topic to unsubscribe. e.g. "FWD",
- Click on the circle in the upper right corner of the screen and then select the "Unsubscribe" item,
- Confirm your intention to unsubscribe by clicking on
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SMS text messages and email are not supported.
Due to the cost and delivery issues, we do not offer notifications over SMS text messaging or email. Only the Pushover application is supported. If you qualify, similar alert messaging for weather products may be available from inws.ncep.noaa.gov. Also refer to www.weather.gov/enterprise/sw-alerts-text-1b. Click on NWS Weather Forecast Office Product Listing for a complete list of their products.
DISCLAIMER
This service is provided by the WX5FWD SKYWARN® Team without any promise or guarantee. We recommend having multiple methods to receive severe weather warning notifications.