Severe Weather Data Inventory

Ancillary Lightning-Related Data

Data Access URL:

https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/swdi/#TileSearch

https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/swdi/csv.html

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/swdiws

Data Owner/Home Organization:

NOAA

Dataset Description:

The Severe Weather Data Inventory (SWDI) is an integrated database of severe weather records for the United States. The records in SWDI come from a variety of sources in the NCDC archive. SWDI provides the ability to search through all of these data to find records covering a particular time period and geographic region, and to download the results of your search in a variety of formats. The formats currently supported are Shapefile (for GIS), KMZ (for Google Earth), CSV (comma-separated), and XML.

More Information:

https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/swdi/#Intro

What is this data good for?:

Lightning producing weather event detection

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