Total NWS is a compilation of NWS alphanumeric text bulletins from all offices,
including forecasts, nowcasts, SFD/AFD forecast discussions, climate summaries,
warnings, special weather statements, and hurricane bulletins.
The collection totals an astounding 75 gigabytes of text data!
Essential for weather historians, forensic meteorologists, insurance companies, and researchers.
Comes on 3 DVD-R discs; zipped by year/month.
All bulletins nationwide of a specific type for a specific calendar date (2 am EST starts a new calendar date) are placed in one file.
Content is plaintext (ASCII) format for easy reading or sorting.
Period of record: December 2001 to December 31, 2011
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Format: ASCII text, one file per day and product category, zipped by month
Coverage area: All NWS offices in the United States
Examples:
View a sample from Total NWS (August 30, 2005, i.e. Katrina landfall date)
Inventory:
View the listing of this dataset to check for gaps
1 Data before June 2002 is limited to forecast discussions only. Before January 2004 data is limited to forecast discussions and warnings.
Total NWS ($149.00)