GIS in the National Weather Service

Jason M. StraubNational Weather Service Brownsville

National Weather Service – Weather Forecast Offices

Internal Use:

Radar Operations Center: Wind Turbine Impacts to Doppler Weather Radar

GIS use in screening and analyzing wind farm interaction with WSR-88D.

NOAA: National Weather Service

Internal Use: Situation Awareness Displays

Past Present

Google Earth Pro

Publicly available data

• www.weather.gov/gis– The National Weather Service’s

repository for Shapefile and KML data

• water.weather.gov–Daily precipitation shapefile

Shapefiles

• Weather Warnings• Flash flood and precipitation guidance• Hurricane tracks and storm surge, and

past hurricane tracks• Severe weather reports database

Severe weather report database

KML

• NWS radar– Single image or loops– Multiple radars/nationwide imagery– Numerous products (radar, velocity, accumulated

precip) • Current Weather Watches and Warnings– Automatically updated– Provides the text product associated with the

advisory

KML

• Local point forecast– Provides the graphical forecast for any point in the

continental U.S.

KML

• Hurricane data– Past tropical cyclone tracks– Tropical cyclone forecast models

Coming Soon

• Daily High/Low/Precipitation

• Hourly observations

Any Questions??

Jason M. StraubMeteorologist

National Weather Service, Brownsvillejason.straub@noaa.gov