Vantage Watch — early warning map

Vantage Watch

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Standing alerts

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Watch zones

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Live feed

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Where this comes from

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Reports on screen

Click the map to place the zone

Coverage

New watch zone

A zone is an area you want warned about. It is scored against the live feeds every refresh.

Name

Latitude

Longitude

Radius — 25 km

Warn when coverage runs above its 7-day baseline by

Warn on forecast rainfall over 24 hours above

Warn on forecast wind gusting above

Situation brief

Written only from what is loaded on the map right now.

Settings

Everything here is public, area-level data. No personal records, no individual tracking.

Sources

News coverage by location — GDELT GEO 2.0, with links to the original articles.

Disaster alerts — GDACS, the EU and UN multi-hazard alert system.

Earthquakes — USGS real-time feed.

Wildfires and storms — NASA EONET.

Rain and wind forecast for each watch zone — Open-Meteo.

Fetch a 7-day baseline to detect surges

Doubles the number of news requests. Without it, alerts fall back to raw volume and severity, and the surge multiplier is not shown.

Locations per category

Route requests through a public CORS proxy (allorigins.win)

Only if a source shows as blocked. Sends feed URLs through a third party.

Refresh every 5 minutes