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Archived Local Storm Reports Shapefiles

This page allows you to generate a GIS shapefile of NWS issued Local Storm Reports for a time period of your choice. Please be sure to read the archive status and dbf schema below. The IEM's archive is certainly not complete or official. If you are looking for a real-time source of lsr shapefiles, you can find that here.

Select time interval

(Times are in UTC. LSRs issued between these times will be included in the output GIS file...)

	Year	Month	Day	Hour	Minute
Start:	200320042005200620072008	JanuaryFebruaryMarchAprilMayJuneJulyAugustSeptemberOctoberNovemberDecember	12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031	0 Z1 Z2 Z3 Z4 Z5 Z6 Z7 Z8 Z9 Z10 Z11 Z12 Z13 Z14 Z15 Z16 Z17 Z18 Z19 Z20 Z21 Z22 Z23 Z	01234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132333435363738394041424344454647484950515253545556575859
End:		JanuaryFebruaryMarchAprilMayJuneJulyAugustSeptemberOctoberNovemberDecember	12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031	0 Z1 Z2 Z3 Z4 Z5 Z6 Z7 Z8 Z9 Z10 Z11 Z12 Z13 Z14 Z15 Z16 Z17 Z18 Z19 Z20 Z21 Z22 Z23 Z	01234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132333435363738394041424344454647484950515253545556575859

Shapefile DBF schema:

VALID    Timestamp of LSR in GMT/UTC time
MAG      Magnitude value of the LSR
WFO      Weather Forecast Office originating the LSR
TYPECODE 1 character identifier of the report type
TYPETEXT Textual value of LSR type used in report
CITY     Location used for the LSR 
COUNTY   County/Parish of the LSR city
SOURCE   Who reported the LSR
REMARK   Text summary with the LSR

Archive notes:

• Before 1 Dec 2006, there was no differentiation between Snow and Sleet reports.

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