I just created a project to send NOAA weather data to my LED Ticker using FlashLex. The NOAA alerts service is a simple scheduled python service that parses data from the NOAA alerts RSS feed and sends a FlashLex message to your thing. 

Imagine you want to sound an alarm to warn people that a flood is predicted. You could easily create an IOT device to flash lighs, send emails or turn on a siren using FlashLex.

Feel free to investigate more information on how to start developing your own apps using FlashLex.

noaa-alerts:
  sources:
    - guage-id: 'syco3'
      name: 'SYCO3 - Johnson Creek near Sycamore (Oregon) - FlashLex'
      source-type: rss
      path: 'https://water.weather.gov/ahps2/rss/alert/syco3.rss'
      schedule:
        rate: 'minutes'
        value: 8
      trigger:
          match: 'Highest Projected Forecast Available'
          minor: 8.0 
          moderate: 10.3 
          major: 10.3 
      notifications:
        - name: 'SYCO3 Johnson Creek at Sycamore'
          type: 'FlashLex'
          baseUrl: 'https://api.flashlex.com/dev'
          thingId: '48338542-9866-1046-9ecc-ad74e1807cc5'
          headers:
            Authorization: "Basic SooperSecr3t"

You can clone the repo at https://github.com/claytantor/noaa-alerts-python