# Storm Station 247 – Weather Instrument Rankings by State

> Storm Station 247 – Weather Instrument Rankings by State is a paid API for AI agents from stormstation247.com, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-20).

Returns a ranked list of all weather monitoring instruments in a given US state, ordered by data quality (share of scheduled reports received), along with state-wide distribution statistics.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://stormstation247.com/api/ranks?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-20
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/storm-station-247-weather-instrument-rankings-by-state-61bab6fa
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_KFb2B5ZQi02HTfhm6oggQ

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability storm-station-247-weather-instrument-rankings-by-state-61bab6fa
```

Example prompt: Pull up the Storm Station 247 weather instrument rankings for Texas — I want to see which stations are reporting most reliably today, ranked best to worst.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to evaluate or compare the reliability and data completeness of weather monitoring instruments within a specific US state — particularly useful for selecting the most trustworthy data sources for weather analysis, auditing sensor network coverage, or identifying gaps in meteorological reporting. Prefer this over general weather data endpoints when your goal is instrument-level quality assessment rather than current conditions or forecasts.

## Known failure modes

- Missing or invalid 'state' query parameter returns an error
- Unsupported or misspelled state name/code may return empty results or an error
- Payment not fulfilled (x402 protocol) results in a 402 Payment Required response
- Rate limiting or quota exceeded may return a 429 error
- Service unavailability returns a 5xx error

## How this service works

Live weather and breaking weather alerts across the United States, 24/7: every warning, watch and advisory in full, and 73,193 weather instruments ranked.

## Output

A JSON object containing a ranked list of all weather instruments in the specified US state, each with its rank position and the share of scheduled reports received. Also includes state-wide spread/distribution statistics showing how report completeness varies across all instruments in that state, ordered best to worst.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "state"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "state": {
       "type": "string"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object",
     "description": "A state's whole ranking today, best first: every instrument with its rank and the share of its scheduled reports received, and the spread of shares across the state."
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json"
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/storm-station-247-weather-instrument-rankings-by-state-61bab6fa/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from stormstation247.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/stormstation247.com/llms.txt)