National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Weather Service

noaa-geographical-information-system-graphical-database-of-tornados-1950-2006

Geographical Information System Graphical Database of Tornados 1950-2006

This data from the National Weather Service provides Geographic Information System (GIS) graphical representations of tornados, large hail events, and damaging wind reports in the Continental United States for the period 1950 through 2006. The data provided are in .zip files that are generally around 50 MB. Although available to all, the data provided may be of particular value to weather professionals and students of meteorological sciences. An instructional manual is provided on how to build and develop a basic severe weather report GIS database in ArcGis and is located at the technical documentation site contained in this metadata catalog.

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https://noaa.data.commerce.gov/dataset/Geographical-Information-System-Graphical-Database/npsm-eppt

The time range for this dataset is January 01, 1970 (00:32 AM) to January 01, 1970 (00:33 AM).

Also known as :

• identifier c40a9d12-8130-4d0f-b8e8-561eaa83b8f8 (datagov lexicon)
• dataset geographical-information-system-graphical-database-of-tornados-1950-2006 (datagov lexicon)