[mikeortman]

I'm fairly sure weather.gov's api doesn't have an SLA of any kind. I highly recommend going through the push vs polling approach if possible and store the data as it comes in live in your own DB. AWS Open Data + MADIS are good sources that are... for reasons... far more stable

EDIT: sorry, I misread your commend. If it's only once every 30 secs, that may be a bit overkill for your needs. You may be able to get the appropriate text product directly and parse it out. Unfortunately probably the most stable, yet clunkiest, way