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GIS in the National Weather Service Jason M. Straub National Weather Service Brownsville

GIS in the National Weather Service Jason M. Straub National Weather Service Brownsville. National Weather Service – Weather Forecast Offices. Internal Use: Radar Operations Center: Wind Turbine Impacts to Doppler Weather Radar.

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GIS in the National Weather Service Jason M. Straub National Weather Service Brownsville

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  1. GIS in the National Weather ServiceJason M. StraubNational Weather Service Brownsville

  2. National Weather Service – Weather Forecast Offices

  3. 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

  4. Internal Use: Situation Awareness Displays Past Present

  5. Google Earth Pro

  6. Publicly available data • www.weather.gov/gis • The National Weather Service’s repository for Shapefile and KML data • water.weather.gov • Daily precipitation shapefile

  7. Shapefiles • Weather Warnings • Flash flood and precipitation guidance • Hurricane tracks and storm surge, and past hurricane tracks • Severe weather reports database

  8. Severe weather report database

  9. 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

  10. KML • Local point forecast • Provides the graphical forecast for any point in the continental U.S.

  11. KML • Hurricane data • Past tropical cyclone tracks • Tropical cyclone forecast models

  12. Coming Soon • Daily High/Low/Precipitation • Hourly observations

  13. Any Questions?? Jason M. Straub Meteorologist National Weather Service, Brownsville jason.straub@noaa.gov

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