NCDC User Engagement Services Branch Storm Data Briefing
This briefing presents information on storm data and the Storm Events Database provided by NCDC User Engagement Services Branch. It includes details on data contacts, data overview, data flow, and access to the Storm Events Database. The dataset covers a chronological listing of various weather phenomena from 1950 to current, including hurricanes, tornadoes, thunderstorms, and more. Spatial and temporal resolutions, access methods, and data sources are also outlined.
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NCDC User & Engagement Services Branch Briefing of Storm Data and the Storm Events Database Presenter: Stuart Hinson UESB/CMD Jan 23, 2014 * UESB Brief Storm Data
Data Contacts Role Facility/Division Name Raw Data Provider: Brent MacAloney NWS - OCWWS - OS52 Performance Branch Provider: Dataset POC/SME Stuart Hinson CSMD/UESB Provider: Data Transfer Stuart Hinson / Helen Frederick Archive: SA Lead Heather Brown RSAD/AB Archive: Ingest Robert McFadden RSAD/AB Archive: Storage David Bowman RSAD/AB Archive: Storage Robert Summers RSAD/AB Archive: IT Security Jennifer Urzen ITB/Security Archive: Access DeeDee Anders & Steve Ansari CSMD/DAAB Archive: SME Stuart Hinson CSMD/UESB UESB Brief Storm Data *
DATA OVERVIEW Producer: National Weather Service Parameters: data contain a chronological listing, by state, of hurricanes, tornadoes, thunderstorms, hail, floods, drought conditions, lightning, high winds, snow, temperature extremes and other weather phenomena. Formats: 1950-1992 ~ SPC ASCII files coded from the CDNS and Storm Data Pub 1993-1995 ~ Word Perfect 5.0 files provided on 3.5 floppy diskettes 1996-09/2006 ~ Paradox Database files 10/2006-current ~ csv data dumps from NWS Storm Database in Windows SQL Time Period: 1950-1955 ~ Tornadoes only 1955-1992 ~ Tornadoes, Thunderstorm Winds & Hail only 1992-current ~ All Storm Events as reported in Storm Data that could be assigned into one of 48 NWS Event Types UESB Brief Storm Data *
DATA OVERVIEW, CONT. Spatial Coverage: CONUS, AK, HI, PR, VI, Pacific Territories Spatial Resolution: State FIPS, County FIPS, NWS Forecast Zones Temporal Resolution: Data are mostly reported by month, day, hour minute Update Frequency: NCDC pulls data from the NWS on the 15thof every month for data ending 75 days prior (Example: January data are pulled April 15. Data that are entered or changed after this date/time are gathered in an additions/corrections file, far data entered to any prior month that are not already received) Source of the data: NWS Forecast Offices collect information from the local community, storm spotters, law enforcement and emergency managers, FEMA, etc. Access (by everyone or restricted): Everyone, no restrictions Accessible forms/media (paper from pdf, ascii, text files, ftp, etc): NCDC Storm Events Database web page ~ http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/stormevents/ Storm Events Database csv page ~ ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/swdi/stormevents/csvfiles/ Storm Data Archive ~ DSI-3910-01 Older Legacy Data 1950-09/2006 DSI-3910-02 Raw data files as received from the NWS DSI-3910-03 Current Database csv file dump Storm Data Publication on IPS
Storm Data Data Flow NWSFO NWSFO NWSFO NWSFO NWSFO NWS HQ Microsoft Windows SQL Server 2003 manual download of csv file NCDC cdo-dev NCDC Operator PC cdo-test NCDC NCDC Storm Events Database (cdo-db) Archive DSI-3910_02 (csv files) NCDC Web Access www NCDC NCDC Storm Data Publication Archive DSI-3910_03 (database output files)
USER DESCRIPTION Users and usages: These data are heavily used by the general public, insurance adjusters, litigators, severe weather climatologists Quality Assurance/Control description: These data are received and archived with little to no QC or alterations. Data from previous versions are modified/normalized to fit the existing database schema, ie date formats, event type names Citations/Papers: Storm Data Powerpoint http://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/swdi/stormevents/Storm%20Data.pptx UESB Brief Storm Data *
Access Discovery Service: Data Access System: Storm Events Database http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/stormevents/ Notional Dissemination Volume: User Documentation: Archive ~ with the archive Storm Events Database ~ FAQ: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/stormevents/faq.jsp National Weather Service Directive 10-1605 Storm Data Preparation : http://www.nws.noaa.gov/directives/sym/pd01016005curr.pdf UESB Brief Storm Data *
