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National Weather Service Data in Shapefile Format

Shapefiles are an open published de-facto industry and government standard GIS format viewable by many, commercial and Open Source GIS Desktop and sever applications. See a list of free Shapefile viewers below.

The following links will either provide shapefiles, will link you to a page with these type of files, or displays info in a GIS viewer.

Current Weather

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Watches & Warnings
• Current Weather Warnings
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River And Flooding Data
• Observed AHPS River Gauges
• Forecast AHPS River Gauges

Other Current Data
Alaska Ice and Sea Surface Temperature

Flood/Flash Flood

• Flash Flood Guidance
• Significant River Flood Outlook

Precipitation

• Forecasts
• Frequency Estimates

Extended

• U.S Temperature and Precipitation Seasonal Outlooks

Hurricanes

• Forecast Tracks, Storm Surges and more

Outlooks

• SPC Fire and Convective Outlooks

• 1950-2006 Database of Tornado, Large Hail, and Damaging Wind Reports

Rain/Snowfall

• Hourly Precipitation Analysis

Hurricanes

• Historic Hurricane Tracks

Fire Weather

Additional Info

• MODIS Fires
• Western Region Digital Forecasts

• Heat Index
• Global Sea Surface Temperature

Drought Monitoring

• Soil Moisture
• Evaporation
• Precipitation
• Runoff
• Temperature

These free programs allow the user to view and in some cases, edit shapefiles*
	Gaia - A viewer from The Carbon Project supporting shapefiles and OGC web services,
	uDig - User friendly Desktop Internet GIS. An open source free viewer for shapefiles and web services.
	OpenJump - Java based open source Shapefile reader/writer.
	Esri ArcGIS Explorer Desktop - Supports shapefiles, KML/KMZ, GeoTiff, and OGC Web services among others.

*NOTE: The Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and National Weather Service do not endorse any particular product, company, information provider, or content on referenced sites.