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Please note these GIS datasets are provided as a convenience to users. Support for these data may not always be available or timely in nature. For issues directly related to the datasets below, please contact us.


As of Tue, 19 Mar 2024 08:29:40 UTC  

Atlantic Eastern Pacific Central Pacific Archive
Advisory Forecast Track, Cone of Uncertainty,
and Watches/Warnings


Sample Shapefiles: Irma Example
Sample KMZ: Cone | Track | Warnings
No current data
No current data
No current data
Advisory Wind Field
and Forecast Wind Radii


Sample Shapefiles: Irma Example
Sample KMZ: Initial Radii | Forecast Radii
No current data
No current data
No current data
Preliminary Best Track
Note: Final Best Tracks available here

Sample Shapefiles: Irma Example
Sample KMZ: Past Track
No current data
No current data
No current data
Arrival Time of Tropical Storm Force Winds



Sample KMZ: Earliest Reasonable | Most Likely

No current data

GRIB2 data: via HTTPS

Graphical Tropical Weather Outlook

Sample Shapefile
Outlook areas (if any):   [shp]
KMZ: [Atlantic]   [East Pacific]   [Central Pacific]
Atlantic, E Pacific, C Pacific
Wind Speed Probabilities

Sample Shapefiles: Polygons | Points
Sample KMZ: 34 kt | 50 kt | 64 kt
No current data

GRIB1 and GRIB2 data:  via HTTPS  via FTP
Probabilistic Storm Surge‡*

metadata sample
No current data

GRIB2: via FTP
N/A N/A
Potential Storm Surge Flooding (Inundation)
metadata sample
download instructions
interactive example with sample downloads
No current data
N/A N/A
Storm Surge Watch/Warning
Sample KML
No current data
N/A N/A
Peak Storm Surge
Sample KML
No current data
N/A N/A
Breakpoints

metadata sample (updated for 2019)
2024 update:  [shp]  [kmz]  Interactive Map View
Storm Surge Communication Points

metadata sample (updated for 2019)
2024 update:  [shp]  [kmz]  Interactive Map View
XML logo GIS Data RSS Feed
description
Atlantic GIS Eastern Pacific GIS Central Pacific GIS N/A
Active KML Feed (Google Earth)
description
All Tropical Cyclones: [kmz] [kml]

 Dataset in shapefile format only (delivered as a .zip file)
 Dataset in shapefile and kml/kmz formats
* Probabilistic Storm Surge is available when U.S. Hurricane Watches/Warnings are in effect

 Wind Speed Probabilities (WSP)

This dataset is available in shapefile and kml/kmz formats.

The wind speed probabilities data also can be found through the National Digital Forecast Database (NDFD) at the following locations:

Forecast Days GRIB2 Download Locations (HTTP & FTP)
1-3 http://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/SL.us008001/ST.opnl/DF.gr2/DC.ndfd/AR.oceanic/VP.001-003/
ftp://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/SL.us008001/ST.opnl/DF.gr2/DC.ndfd/AR.nhemi/VP.001-003/
4+ http://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/SL.us008001/ST.opnl/DF.gr2/DC.ndfd/AR.oceanic/VP.004-007/
ftp://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/SL.us008001/ST.opnl/DF.gr2/DC.ndfd/AR.nhemi/VP.004-007/

Technical information on accessing and using NDFD elements can be found at https://graphical.weather.gov/docs/datamanagement.php.

Additional Resources

To see other National Weather Service data available in GIS formats, please visit www.weather.gov/gis.

The NOAA Ocean Service's nowCOAST project provides real-time links to many of these GIS datasets via WMS. More information on accessing these data is available here.

NOAA's Office for Coastal Management maintains a detailed online interactive mapping tool called Historical Hurricane Tracks at coast.noaa.gov/digitalcoast/tools/hurricanes.html. This tool offers users the ability to search and display global tropical cyclone data. The information can also be downloaded in widely-used GIS data formats.

When using the Historical Hurricane Tracks tool, the left side bar allows you to query storms by their location, name, year, etc. Search options can easily be refineed for the storm (or storms) that are of interest to the user. Please note that the Historical Hurricane Tracks interface will not contain data for the current season until the storms have had their entire datasets analyzed. For example, the 2011 season should be online by early 2012.

Another good source of vulnerability maps and GIS data is NOAA's Digital Coast. This website provides data required by coastal resource management professionals, as well as the tools, training, and information needed to turn these data into useful information.

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