Abstract

GIS Weather Data from NWS
Track: Climate, Weather, and Atmosphere
Author(s): Ira Graffman, Keith Stellman, Paul Kirkwood

During the hurricane season of 2007, NOAA's (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) National Weather Service (NWS) ran as semi-operational ArcIMS site called EMHURR. This site was designed to provide Emergency Managers a means for accessing real time weather data both prior to and after the land fall of a tropical storm or hurricane. This service migrated from a development server at NWS HQ to the NWS Service Southern Region web farm and it served out Tropical Storm/Hurricane information as GIS ready data (image, feature, WMS services, shapefile download). Hurricane model, warning polygons, sateliite, and radar imagery was also be viewable and available through this GIS server. It is hoped to expand the service to add more data types and to be in an operational mode with additional servers and software.

Ira Graffman
NOAA/NWS
1325 East West Highway
Silver Spring , Maryland 20904
United States
Phone: 301 713 0763
E-mail: ira.graffman@noaa.gov

Keith Stellman
NOAA/NWS
819 Taylor St
Ft. Worth , Texas 76102
United States
Phone: 817-978-1100
E-mail: keith.stellman@noaa.gov

Paul Kirkwood
NOAA/NWS
NWS Southern Region Headquarters
819 Taylor St.
Ft. Worth , Texas 76102
United States
Phone: 817-978-1100
E-mail: paul.kirkwood@noaa.gov