Metadata Updated: October 11, 2023
The Severe Weather Data Inventory (SWDI) is an integrated database of severe weather records for the United States. SWDI enables a user to search through a variety of source data sets in the NCDC (now NCEI) archive in order to find records covering a particular time period and geographic region, and then to download the results of the search in a variety of formats. The formats currently supported are Shapefile (for GIS), KMZ (for Google Earth), CSV (comma-separated), and XML. The current data layers in SWDI are: Storm Cells from NEXRAD (Level-III Storm Structure Product); Hail Signatures from NEXRAD (Level-III Hail Product); Mesocyclone Signatures from NEXRAD (Level-III Meso Product); Digital Mesocyclone Detection Algorithm from NEXRAD (Level-III MDA Product); Tornado Signature from NEXRAD (Level-III TVS Product); Preliminary Local Storm Reports from the NOAA National Weather Service; Lightning Strikes from Vaisala NLDN.
Access & Use Information
License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.
Downloads & Resources
- NCEI Dataset Landing Page
Landing page for the dataset.
- NCEI Product Information Page
Description of the data and related resources.
- NCEI GIS Map Service
GIS mapping application for the dataset.
- NCEI Direct Download (Dataset Files)
Direct download for the dataset.
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Dates
| Metadata Date | June 23, 2023 |
|---|---|
| Metadata Created Date | June 30, 2023 |
| Metadata Updated Date | October 11, 2023 |
| Reference Date(s) | January 1, 2006 (publication) |
| Frequency Of Update | asNeeded |
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Additional Metadata
| Resource Type | Dataset |
|---|---|
| Metadata Date | June 23, 2023 |
| Metadata Created Date | June 30, 2023 |
| Metadata Updated Date | October 11, 2023 |
| Reference Date(s) | January 1, 2006 (publication) |
| Responsible Party | DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI > National Centers for Environmental Information, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce (Point of Contact) |
| Contact Email | swdi.ncdc@noaa.gov |
| Guid | gov.noaa.ncdc:C00773 |
| Category Tag 16E15F51 D96E 4051 9124 75665Abdc6Ff | ["Food Resilience","Food Production","Food Distribution","Food Safety and Nutrition","Food Security","Human Health","Atmospheric, Earth and Ocean Sciences","Water","Ecosystem Vulnerability"] |
| Access Constraints | Cite dataset when used as a source., An effort is made to use the best available information but because of time and resource constraints, information from these sources may be unverified by the NWS. Customers should be cautious as the NWS does not guarantee the accuracy or validity of the information. Further, when it is apparent information appearing in Storm Data originated from a source outside the NWS (frequently credit is provided), Storm Data customers requiring additional information should contact that source directly. In most cases, NWS employees will not have the knowledge to respond to such requests. In cases of legal proceedings, Federal regulations generally prohibit NWS employees from appearing as witnesses in litigation not involving the United States., SWDI provides a uniform way to access data from a variety of sources, but it does not provide any additional quality control beyond the processing which took place when the data were archived. The data sources in SWDI will not provide complete severe weather coverage of a geographic region or time period, due to a number of factors (eg, reports for a location or time period not provided to NOAA). The absence of SWDI data for a particular location and time should not be interpreted as an indication that no severe weather occurred at that time and location. Furthermore, much of the data in SWDI is automatically derived from radar data and represents probable conditions for an event, rather than a confirmed occurrence. |
| Bbox East Long | -65.0 |
| Bbox North Lat | 72.0 |
| Bbox South Lat | 11.0 |
| Bbox West Long | 170.0 |
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| Frequency Of Update | asNeeded |
| Harvest Object Id | 299beb20-dd6a-4ce4-8844-3852d572fd3b |
| Harvest Source Id | 2cb3ef77-1683-4c2a-9119-dc65e50917c6 |
| Harvest Source Title | ncdc |
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| Lineage | |
| Metadata Language | eng; USA |
| Metadata Type | geospatial |
| Old Spatial | {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[[170.0, 11.0], [-65.0, 11.0], [-65.0, 72.0], [170.0, 72.0], [170.0, 11.0]]]} |
| Progress | onGoing |
| Spatial Data Service Type | |
| Spatial Reference System | |
| Spatial Harvester | True |
| Temporal Extent Begin | 1995-01-01 |
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