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Storm Prediction Report

Dataset Summary

Agency Department of Commerce
Sub-Agency National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Category Geography and Environment
Date Released 6/1/1999
Date Updated at least daily
Time Period dependant on weather
Frequency dependant on weather
Description The National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center (SPC) provides daily RSS feeds summarizing today's latest information about tornado and severe thunderstorm watches, mesoscale discussions, convective day 1-3 outlooks, and fire weather outlooks. Although available to all, the data provided may be of particular value to weather professionals and students of meteorological sciences.

Dataset Ratings

  Current Your Rating [?]
Overall 2 out of 5
(3 votes)
Data Utility 2 out of 5
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Usefulness 2 out of 5
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Ease of Access    2 out of 5
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Dataset Metrics

Number of Downloads 1,115

Dataset Information

Data.gov Data Category Type
Raw Data Catalog
Specialized Data Category Designation Geospatial
Keywords storm reports, watch and warning map, National RADAR, Product Archive, tornao reports, hail reports, wind reports, federal data download, national, monitoring and forecasting severe weather, convective outlooks, severe weather, fire weather outlooks, severe weather watches, federal datasets, environment, tornado, twister, funnel, thunderstorm, watches, warnings, alerts
Unique ID 11

Contributing Agency Information

Citation
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/
Agency Program Page http://www.ncep.noaa.gov/
Agency Data Series Page http://www.spc.noaa.gov/

Dataset Coverage

Unit of Analysis
Storm Prediction Reports
Granularity by storm
Geographic Coverage Continental US

Data Description

Collection Mode
Radar, Satellite, observation, numeric prediction models
Data Collection Instrument http://www.spc.noaa.gov/misc/about.html
Data Dictionary/Variable List http://wdsii.nssl.noaa.gov/geotiff_new/accessing.html

Additional Dataset Documentation

Technical Documentation
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/faq/
FGDC Compliance (Geospatial Only) Yes
Additional Metadata http://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/reports/today.html

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