The life of a storm report in NOAA

[tom hanlon]

I am interested in aggregating a bunch of SPC archived outlooks and comparing to reports.

The SPC stuff I can find. It took me a while to get the basic idea that KWNS is the SPC. Going further down that road, the products of say wilmington OH compared to KWNS equate more or less like a Convective outlook is a HWO and the synopsis product, the text at the bottom of the html page is the AFD.

Okay so I intend to put all of this in a rationally organized database, largely as an exercise since I make a living teaching the MySQL database.

So what I want are the reports, the blue, red and balck squares on the map..
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/reports/

Where are those aggregated, how are they generated?

I assume the following chain of events.

Report from public comes in to local NWS station, then it goes ???

The report is confirmed if needed and is further recorded .. where ?

I am looking to grab a collection of text files that I can massage into database entries. I am hoping that such a collection exists. I bet somebody here knows where it is online.

Thanks for your help.

Best Regards,

Tom Hanlon

 

[Chris Nuttall]

Those reports on the SPC page come direct from the Local Storm Report (LSR) products issued by each local NWS office. If an LSR is not issued, it won't be on there, AFAIK. I don't know if this helps or not, but you can download a listing of those reports in comma-delimited format right there on the SPC page. If you need several days worth of events, you can get it from their Event Archive Index.

 

[Patrick Marsh]

If you are putting together a searchable database, you shouldn't use the SPC Storm Reports page. Colloquially, this is known as the "rough log" because it has no quality control measures applied to it. What you would want to use is the Storm Data storm reports, which are the official storm reports. This is colloquially known as the "smooth log". You can download the SPC version of the smooth log from here: http://www.spc.ncep.noaa.gov/wcm/#data