Public Information Statement
National Weather Service Little Rock AR
600 AM CST Sat Mar 06 2021

...Todays Topic for Severe Weather Awareness Week is Storm
Reports...

The National Weather Service, in cooperation with the Arkansas
Department of Emergency Management, has proclaimed the week of
February 28th through March 6th as Severe Weather Awareness Week
in Arkansas.

A different topic will be discussed each day, and todays topic
is storm reports.

While many people are aware that severe weather warnings
are issued by the National Weather Service, they may not know
there is an effort to collect storm reports during and after
a weather event. Reports are used to verify warnings. It is
a necessary step to find out if the warnings were justified.

Reports in real-time can help radar operators determine what
storms are producing. Reports following an event are used to
better understand severe storms and improve the warning
process. Reports also inform people of what happened in areas
affected by severe thunderstorms, flash flooding, and the
like.

The reports are collected from various sources /by phone or on
the internet/ including trained storm spotters, emergency
management, the media, law enforcement, and the general public.
Reports are entered into a computer each month, and then sent
to a national database and archived. The reports are made
available online by the National Centers for Environmental
Information /NCEI/, and also in a publication called "Storm
Data and Unusual Weather Phenomena".

...To Get Storm Reports On The Internet...

You can access storm reports for Arkansas from 1950 to the
present at the following web address...

https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/stormevents/

From there, go to "Select State or Area" and choose "Arkansas".

&&

For a list of all the tornadoes and other significant weather
events that occurred in 2020...

https://www.weather.gov/media/lzk/StormsOf2020.pdf

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