National Weather Service Weather Forecast Office

Wednesday, November 14th, 2012, is GIS Day across the globe, and the Geographic Information Systems movement is in full force throughout NOAA and in the National Weather Service. Whether you know it or not, you are likely using National Weather Service GIS products on a daily basis. Any time you check radar, you are using GIS. Anytime you click on a map to get a forecast...GIS. Watches, warnings, advisories...you guessed it...GIS.

Links to the latest issue of the NWS Geospatial Newsletter as well as a brochure on NWS GIS products and services is provided above. To see additional examples of how GIS is improving NWS products and services, please take a look at the examples below and hover over the images for more information. Web links to additional NOAA and NWS GIS resources can also be found below.

Graphical Forecast Products

Watch, Warning, and 
and Advisory Polygons

Precipitation Mapping (click image
for more info)

  Point and Click Forecasts (click
image for more info)

  Radar Overlays (click image
for more info)

  Storm Damage Surveys (click image
for more info)

 Unique or Special Event Mapping
(click image for more info)

 Flood Inundation Mapping (click
image for more info)

Population Impacted by 
Weather Events (click image
for more info)