# Start here

> Who you are and where to go first: a warning on your phone, a place saved, your house automated, or the data itself.

Get started · Overview · https://wxalerts.org/docs/get-started/

WxAlerts watches continuously and tells you when something concerns a place
you care about: National Weather Service alerts, GOES-19 lightning, storm
cells tracked while they are still cells, SPC outlooks and observations.
Nothing safety-related is behind a paywall, and nothing here is an official
government source. Always follow your local officials.

## Pick how you want to be told

There are three ways in, and most people end up using more than one.

| Route | Best for | Setup time |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [The live map](/) | Checking on a storm right now | None |
| The apps | Push notifications on a phone or desktop | A minute |
| [Home Assistant](/docs/integrations/home-assistant/) | Automations, dashboards, lights and speakers | Ten minutes |

## Where to go

- **I want a warning on my phone.** Follow
  [Get your first alert on your phone](/docs/get-started/phone-alerts/). On an
  iPhone without the app, see
  [Alerts on iPhone without the app](/docs/alerts/iphone-without-the-app/).
- **I want to watch more than one address, or tell other people.** See
  [Saved places and alert rules](/docs/alerts/saved-places/).
- **I want my house to react.** The
  [Home Assistant integration](/docs/integrations/home-assistant/) turns NWS
  alerts and storm cells for your places into entities you can automate
  against. It is part of the Supporter plan.
- **I want to build on the data.** Start with the
  [developer docs](/docs/developers/). The alert and lightning feeds are both
  public.
- **I am a storm spotter.** See [Spotter reports](/docs/spotter-reports/).
- **I run a weather station.** See [Weather stations](/docs/weather-stations/).
- **I want to read the storms on the map.** See
  [Storm analysis](/docs/storm-analysis/).

Every warning is taken from three independent National Weather Service feeds
at once and pushed straight out. [How an alert reaches
you](/docs/alerts/how-alerts-reach-you/) walks the whole path.

## Something wrong?

Bad polygons and missed alerts are the most useful bug reports the project
gets. Bring them to Discord, or open an issue on the repo.