A High Risk (Level 4 of 4) of Excessive Rainfall has been issued for portions of east Texas into western Louisiana today. For weeks, heavy rainfall has fallen across the Gulf coast states so any additional rainfall today will likely lead to life threatening flash flooding. Severe thunderstorms capable of producing large hail, severe winds and tornadoes will also be possible in central Texas. Read More >
NWS is extending the comment period for the Experimental National Geographic Information System (GIS) Map Viewer (“the Viewer”) web application hosted on the Amazon Web Services public cloud through May 27, 2022. The following notification and news article contain more information. The Viewer is also embedded below.
Many of the National Weather Service data sets are available in formats that are able to be imported directly into Geographic Information Systems (GIS) or your own custom map viewers or web pages. Data formats include downloadable shapefiles and KML formats, web services, and our basemaps in shapefile format.
Individual Radar WMS links can be found here: https://opengeo.ncep.noaa.gov/geoserver/www/index.html
As more data is made available in these formats, links to the data will be added to these pages. Click one of the GIS format links above to start exploring the NWS GIS data currently available!
