Library Guides: Weather and Climatology: Severe Weather Events

Guides to Extreme Weather Events

Extreme Events (NCEI)
A web site with links to information on hurricanes, tornadoes, heavy precipitation and other extreme events.
Storm Data
(QC941.U5 Crerar Library)

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Geographic coverage: United States
Access: In Library
Dates: 1959-1997
Language: English
Frequency: Daily and Monthly
Format: Print
Storm Events Database
Listing, by state, of hurricanes, tornadoes, thunderstorms, hail, floods, drought conditions, lightning, high winds, snow, temperature extremes and other weather phenomena. The reports are provided by the National Weather Service and contain statistics on personal injuries and damage estimates.

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Geographic coverage: United States
Access: Free
Dates: 1950+
Language: English
Frequency: Annual summary
Format: Web
National Severe Storms Laboratory

Hurricanes

Worldwide Tropical Cyclone Centers
List of the Regional Specialized Meteorology Centers (RSMC) and Tropical Cyclone Warning Centers (TCWC) participating in the WMO Tropical Cyclone Programme.
Hurricanes - A Reference Handbook
Severe Weather Database Browser
Provides browser for tornado, hail, and damaging wind data. Tornado reports exist back to 1950 while hail and damaging wind reports date from 1955.

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The data is derived from the Storm Data publication by National Weather Service field offices, with careful review and processing conducted by the National Climatic Data Center and the Storm Prediction Center. Finalized official data for an entire year will typically be made available the following summer (i.e. 2009 available summer 2010). If final data is not yet available for the desired date(s), preliminary unofficial storm reports can be accessed at: http://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/online/
NHC Data Archive
National Hurricane Center provides an extensive archive of information on past tropical storms.
Tropical Cyclones of the North Atlantic Ocean, 1871-1998

Tornadoes

Monthly and Annual Numbers of Tornados-Graphs and Maps
Contains state occurrence maps, historical data, special reports and more.
Enhanced Fujita Scale
Describes the scale used to measure the severity of tornadoes.
Severe Weather Database Browser
Provides browser for tornado, hail, and damaging wind data. Tornado reports exist back to 1950 while hail and damaging wind reports date from 1955.

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The data is derived from the Storm Data publication by National Weather Service field offices, with careful review and processing conducted by the National Climatic Data Center and the Storm Prediction Center. Finalized official data for an entire year will typically be made available the following summer (i.e. 2009 available summer 2010). If final data is not yet available for the desired date(s), preliminary unofficial storm reports can be accessed at: http://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/online/
Tetsuya “Ted” Fujita
University of Chicago tribute to "Mr. Tornado"
Mr. Tornado
Article on Ted Fujita and his work that appeared in Weatherwise, May 1999.

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Rosenfeld, Jeff. "Mr. Tornado." Weatherwise 52.3 (May 1999): 18. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. [Library name], [City], [State abbreviation]. 16 Sep. 2009 .
Tornado Project Online
A site for enthusiasts including tornado myths, tornado oddities, personal tornado experiences, tornado chasing, tornado safety, and tornadoes in the past as well as more recent tornadoes.
NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory videos
These "bite-sized" videos cover a variety of topics

Snow and Ice

MRCC-Hail
Good introduction to hail and hail climatology

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Geographic coverage: United States
Access: For sale
Dates: 1901-1994
Language: English
Frequency:
Format: CDROM
National Snow and Ice Data Center
NSIDC archives digital and analog snow and ice data including snow cover, avalanches, glaciers and ice sheets, floating ice, ground ice and permafrost, atmospheric ice, paleoglaciology and ice cores. User registration is required for free data access.

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Geographical coverage: Global
Access: Free and for sale
Dates: Varies
Language: Varies
Frequency: Varies
Format: Varies, but most available from Web
Severe Weather Database Browser
Provides browser for tornado, hail, and damaging wind data. Tornado reports exist back to 1950 while hail and damaging wind reports date from 1955.

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The data is derived from the Storm Data publication by National Weather Service field offices, with careful review and processing conducted by the National Climatic Data Center and the Storm Prediction Center. Finalized official data for an entire year will typically be made available the following summer (i.e. 2009 available summer 2010). If final data is not yet available for the desired date(s), preliminary unofficial storm reports can be accessed at: http://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/online/

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