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# WeatherAlert

A weather alert issued for the requested  location by a governmental authority.

```
struct WeatherAlert
```

## Overview

Weather alerts often contains severe weather information; however, not all alerts are severe. Alerts may or may not contain localized descriptions, depending on what is available from the
source. Due to data source restrictions, information contained is served raw.

## Topics

### Getting the properties

[`metadata`](/documentation/WeatherKit/WeatherAlert/metadata)

Descriptive information about the weather alert data.

[`region`](/documentation/WeatherKit/WeatherAlert/region)

The name of the affected area.

[`severity`](/documentation/WeatherKit/WeatherAlert/severity)

The severity of the weather alert.

[`summary`](/documentation/WeatherKit/WeatherAlert/summary)

The summary of the event type.

### Providing attribution

[`detailsURL`](/documentation/WeatherKit/WeatherAlert/detailsURL)

The site for more details about the weather alert.

[`source`](/documentation/WeatherKit/WeatherAlert/source)

The name of the source issuing the weather alert.

## Relationships

### Conforms To

[`Equatable`](/documentation/Swift/Equatable)

[`SendableMetatype`](/documentation/Swift/SendableMetatype)

[`Decodable`](/documentation/Swift/Decodable)

[`Sendable`](/documentation/Swift/Sendable)

[`Copyable`](/documentation/Swift/Copyable)

[`Encodable`](/documentation/Swift/Encodable)

[`Escapable`](/documentation/Swift/Escapable)

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