Live Weather Alerts in Google Sheets & Excel

What this pulls

Check active severe weather warnings from a spreadsheet. Lists every warning in effect across a state, auto-refreshing — Sheets or Excel.

It's one of 250+ live sources you reach with a single =VERVE() function — served from APIVerve's production data engine, billed at 5 credits per resolved cell, and refreshed on whatever cadence you set. No API keys to wrangle, no scripts, no exports.

See it in a cell

A real example — the input you type, and the values you can pull from it. Click any cell to see the formula behind it.

weatheralerts.xlsxsample data

A2fx=VERVE("weatheralerts", "field", "location.state")

Location › State

Count

Highest Severity

Severe

click any cell to see its formula5 credits / cell

Ways to use it

Conditions per location

Put your cities in a column and fill =VERVE("weatheralerts", "field", "location.state") beside them — every row shows live conditions, so an ops or travel sheet reflects the real world, not last week.

Logistics & scheduling

Gate a plan on the weather: read the forecast into a cell and let an IF formula flag rows that need a backup date.

Auto-refreshing board

Set the sheet to refresh on a schedule and Live Weather Alerts keeps a status board current without anyone re-typing a thing.

Use it in your sheet

The same function works in both apps — install once, sign in with your key, and type it into any cell.

Google SheetsAdd-on

Install from the Workspace Marketplace, then drop the formula into a cell. Autocomplete suggests the source and its fields.

=VERVE("weatheralerts", "field", "location.state")

Microsoft ExcelAdd-in

Same source, same arguments, same key — in Excel on desktop, the web, or mobile. Excel namespaces it as VERVE.CALL. Drag to fill a whole column.

=VERVE.CALL("weatheralerts", "field", "location.state")

Optional inputs

Tune the result by adding name=value before the field argument — in any order. Leave one out and its default applies.

lat
Latitude of the location to check. Send with lon
=VERVE("weatheralerts", "lat", "38.627")
lon
Longitude of the location to check. Send with lat
=VERVE("weatheralerts", "lon", "-90.1994")
state
Two-letter US state or territory code (e.g., MO) for every alert in effect across it. Used when lat and lon are not sent
=VERVE("weatheralerts", "state", "TX")

Fields you can pull

Add a field name as the last argument to land just that value in the cell.

Location
=VERVE("weatheralerts", "field", "location")
Count
=VERVE("weatheralerts", "field", "count")
Highest Severity
=VERVE("weatheralerts", "field", "highestSeverity")
Alerts
=VERVE("weatheralerts", "field", "alerts")
Alerts › Id
=VERVE("weatheralerts", "field", "alerts.0.id")
Alerts › Event
=VERVE("weatheralerts", "field", "alerts.0.event")
Alerts › Headline
=VERVE("weatheralerts", "field", "alerts.0.headline")
Alerts › Summary
=VERVE("weatheralerts", "field", "alerts.0.summary")
Alerts › Severity
=VERVE("weatheralerts", "field", "alerts.0.severity")
Alerts › Urgency
=VERVE("weatheralerts", "field", "alerts.0.urgency")
Alerts › Certainty
=VERVE("weatheralerts", "field", "alerts.0.certainty")
Alerts › Response
=VERVE("weatheralerts", "field", "alerts.0.response")

Live Weather Alerts, answered

Everything you need to wire it into a sheet.

How do I pull Live Weather Alerts into Google Sheets?

Install the VerveSheets add-on, sign in once with your key, and type =VERVE("weatheralerts", "field", "location") into any cell. The "field" argument names the value you want back, so the cell resolves to a single number or string you can chart, sort, or feed into another formula.

What data can I pull from Live Weather Alerts?

Live Weather Alerts returns location, count, highestSeverity, alerts and alerts.0.id, plus 7 more — name any one of them as the "field" argument and that value lands in the cell. Leave the field out and the whole record spills into a two-column table instead.

Can I narrow what Live Weather Alerts returns?

Yes — Live Weather Alerts takes "lat", "lon" and "state" as optional inputs. They go in as "name", value pairs after the required ones, in any order, so =VERVE("weatheralerts", "lat", "38.627") shapes the result without changing anything else.

Can I fill a whole column of Live Weather Alerts at once?

Yes. Reference a range instead of a single cell and one call returns a value for every row, or drag =VERVE("weatheralerts") down like any spreadsheet function.

How many credits does each Live Weather Alerts cell cost?

Each resolved cell costs 5 credits. A cell only re-bills when it actually refreshes, so a sheet you aren't touching doesn't keep charging.

Does Live Weather Alerts work in Excel as well as Google Sheets?

Yes — same arguments, same key, same fields. Excel namespaces custom functions, so the call is =VERVE.CALL() there and =VERVE() in Google Sheets; nothing else about it changes.

Live Weather Alerts

Conditions per location

Logistics & scheduling

Auto-refreshing board

Live Weather Alerts, answered

Put Live Weather Alerts in your next spreadsheet. Add the extension, paste the formula, and the cell keeps itself current.

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