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Monitoring Severe Weather and Flooding Concerns for the Southeast and Hawaii; Above Normal Temperatures for the West

Lines of showers and thunderstorms continue for the Southeast through today. Some of these storms will be severe with hail, damaging winds and tornadoes. For the mid-Atlantic region and Northeast, unsettled and cooler weather pattern through the weekend. For Hawaii, a nearby system will focus showers and thunderstorms containing heavy rainfall and possible flooding. Snow lingers for Rockies. Read More >

NWS is extending the comment period for the Experimental National Geographic Information System (GIS) Map Viewer (“the Viewer”) web application hosted on the Amazon Web Services public cloud through May 27, 2022. The following notification  and news article contain more information. The Viewer is also embedded below.

Many of the National Weather Service data sets are available in formats that are able to be imported directly into Geographic Information Systems (GIS) or your own custom map viewers or web pages.  Data formats include downloadable shapefiles and KML formats, web services, and our basemaps in shapefile format.

Individual Radar WMS links can be found here: https://opengeo.ncep.noaa.gov/geoserver/www/index.html

As more data is made available in these formats, links to the data will be added to these pages. Click one of the GIS format links above to start exploring the NWS GIS data currently available!