National Weather Data in Shapefile format
National Weather Service GIS surveyThe National Weather Service produces several data sets that are available in formats available to import into Geographic Information Systems (GIS). GIS is a collection of computer hardware, software, and geographic data for capturing, managing, analyzing, and displaying all forms of geographically referenced information. It takes the numbers and words from the rows and columns in databases and spreadsheets and puts them on a map. Looking for KML files?
| Current Weather | Forecasts | Past Weather |
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Watches & WarningsSatelliteRemote Gages
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Flood/Flash FloodPrecipitationExtended |
1950-2006 Database of Tornado, Large Hail, and Damaging Wind ReportsTemperatureRain/SnowfallHurricanes |
| Fire Weather | Additional Info | |
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Heat Index Sea Surface Temperature Drought Monitoring |
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NASA World Wind viewer (latest version 1.4 released February 14, 2007) - free download from NASA |
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GoogleEarth viewer - KML file format support - free download from Google.com |
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ESRI's ArcGIS Explorer - KML file format support - free download from ESRI.com |
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FME (Feature Manipulation Engine) that converts data in one format to another - KML file format support - (Purchase) - download from Safe.com |
| ArcGIS extension that allows ESRI software to read KML until the next full release of ESRI software that will natively support KML/KMZ - (Purchase) - download from KMLer.com |
