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Warning Coordination Meteorologist's Introduction

Welcome to the WCM Page for the SPC. This page has charts of the latest preliminary severe storm reports, annual summaries, and links to comma-separated-value (csv) data files from the SPC severe weather database back to 1950. As time allows, this page may occasionally serve as a place for preliminary severe weather event assessments.

For additional insight into severe thunderstorms and tornado reports, the SPC and the National Severe Storms Laboratory are collaborating on posting non-operational "feature" content to the U.S. Severe Weather Blog, hosted by NOAA Public Affairs in Norman, Oklahoma.

Greg Carbin
Warning Coordination Meteorologist
NWS/NCEP Storm Prediction Center

Annual Running Totals (Updated Frequently)
Tornado Reports       |       Hail Reports       |       Wind Reports
Annual Tornado Running Totals
Plot of the annual running total of tornado reports compared to inflation adjusted values. (Click on graph for a full description.)

Annual Tornado Trends
Actual (adjusted) annual tornado reports compared to prior years. (Click on graph for full resolution version.)

SPC Average Annual Watch Frequency Maps
Tornado Watches
Average number of tornado watches per year (1999-2008). (Click for full-resolution version.)
Severe Thunderstorm Watches
Average number of severe thunderstorm watches per year (1999-2008). (Click for full-resolution version.)


SPC 2008 Tornado Tracks Map
2008 Tornado Tracks
U.S. map depicting tornado tracks colored by EF-Scale for 2008. (Click on graph for full-resolution version.)


2008 Tornado Graph
Plot of 2008 daily tornado events the annual trend. (Click on graph for full-resolution version.)

SPC 2007 Tornado Tracks Map
2007 Tornado Tracks
U.S. map depicting tornado tracks colored by EF-Scale for 2007. (Click on graph for full-resolution version.)


2007 SPC Tornado Chart
Chart depicting tornado events and total annual trend for 2007. (Click on graph for full-resolution version.)


SPC Tornado and Severe Weather Statistical Products on AWIPS

Monthly Tornado Statistics are maintained in the AWIPS product STAMTS. Use this product to find out how many tornadoes have occured so far this year and how this year compares to past years.

Killer Tornado Statistics are listed in the AWIPS product STATIJ. Use this product for information about killer tornadoes this year and in the past.


Severe Weather Database Files (1950-2007)

The table below provides links to comma separated value (.csv) files for tornado, hail, and damaging wind data as compiled in Storm Data. Tornado reports exist back to 1950 while hail and damaging wind reports date from 1955. The full datasets are very large, especially hail and wind. To facilitate quicker downloads these data have been parsed by decade (or 1/2 decade in the case of wind/hail data in the 1950s and 2000s).

This document describes the format of the .csv files. Note! Data for 2008 is now available in the format specified in the document. However, state numbering and sequence numbering for tornado data remains preliminary.


TORNADO
HAIL
DAMAGING WIND
2008_torn.csv (0.18 mb)
2008_hail.csv (1.7 mb )
2008_wind.csv (1.7 mb )
2005-2007_torn.csv (0.25 mb)
2005-2007_hail.csv (4 mb )
2005-2007_wind.csv (4 mb )
2000-2004_torn.csv (0.7 mb)
2000-2004_hail.csv (6 mb)
2000-2004_wind.csv (6 mb)
90-99_torn.csv (1 mb)
90-99_hail.csv (6 mb)
90-99_wind.csv (8 mb)
80-89_torn.csv (0.75 mb)
80-89_hail.csv (2.5 mb)
80-89_wind.csv (3.5 mb)
70-79_torn.csv (0.82 mb)
70-79_hail.csv (1 mb)
70-79_wind.csv (1.6 mb)
60-69_torn.csv (0.65 mb)
60-69_hail.csv (0.67 mb)
60-69_wind.csv (0.90 mb)
50-59_torn.csv (0.46 mb)
55-59_hail.csv (0.20 mb)
55-59_wind.csv (0.28 mb)

Location Codes for Storm data here.
Map of State FIPS Numbers here.
Text list of County FIPS Numbers here.



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