cap:certainty

Element Information

Model

Source

<element name="certainty">
  <simpleType>
    <restriction base="xs:string">
      <enumeration value="Observed"/>
      <enumeration value="Likely"/>
      <enumeration value="Possible"/>
      <enumeration value="Unlikely"/>
      <enumeration value="Unknown"/>
    </restriction>
  </simpleType>
</element>

Sample

< info xmlns = "urn:oasis:names:tc:emergency:cap:1.2" >

< category>

Met

</ category>

< event>

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM

</ event>

< responseType>

Shelter

</ responseType>

< urgency>

Immediate

</ urgency>

< severity>

Severe

</ severity>

< certainty>

Observed

</ certainty>

< eventCode>

< valueName>

SAME

</ valueName>

< value>

SVR

</ value>

</ eventCode>

< expires>

2003-06-17T16:00:00-07:00

</ expires>

< senderName>

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SACRAMENTO CA

</ senderName>

< headline>

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING

</ headline>

< description>

AT 254 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER SOUTH CENTRAL ALPINE COUNTY...OR ABOUT 18 MILES SOUTHEAST OF KIRKWOOD...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 5 MPH. HAIL...INTENSE RAIN AND STRONG DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM.

</ description>