Verified storm footprints in a viewport as a GeoJSON FeatureCollection

Every verified swath polygon intersecting the bbox, newest first, simplified for map display (~100 m tolerance by default). Properties carry storm id, type, verified time, peak hail size and peak wind. Built for drawing a storm layer under a canvassing map. Costs 1 credit.

get/v1/swaths/geometry

Request

  • Base URL: https://swathapi.com
  • URL: https://swathapi.com/v1/swaths/geometry
  • Auth: HTTP bearer

Query parameters

bboxstring required

"west,south,east,north" in WGS84 degrees; at most 20 degrees on a side

sincestring

ISO 8601; only storms verified at or after this time

type'hail' | 'wind'
limitinteger
simplifynumber

Simplification tolerance in degrees; 0 = full resolution

Response

GeoJSON FeatureCollection

type'FeatureCollection'
countinteger
truncatedboolean

Changes

No recorded changes to this operation across all 1 revision of this API.