April 30 & May 1, 2010 Storms-Part2

Link to ftp (ftp://ftp.geostor.arkansas.gov/Event/20100430_Weather)

Little Rock National Weather Service has surveyed storm damage within their area of coverage and provided a new KML file that includes confirmed tornadoes.

Data

20100430-0501-Surveyed Tornado Tracks.kml- Surveyed tornado damage from the LR-NWS

Dan Kock (@wxmandan) provided a blog post this weekend that provides additional insight to this event. 

http://wxmandan.blogspot.com/2010/05/map-of-tornado-tracks-from-april-30-may.html

April 30 & May 1, 2010 Storms

Link to ftp (ftp://ftp.geostor.arkansas.gov/Event/20100430_Weather)


Little Rock National Weather Service continues to survey damage from this weekends storms. They will provide tornado track information as soon as they can. Currently the following information is available on the ftp site.

Data

20100430_StormTracks.kml & .shp - Preliminary storm tracks provided by LR NWS. These do not represent tornado paths, only the strongest storm tracks. LR NWS is performing field surveys 5/1/2010.- WGS84


20100430_NOAA_REPORT.zip - Preliminary Storm reports pulled from http://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/reports/ - UTM Zone15 NAD83


20100501_NOAA_REPORT.zip - Preliminary Storm reports pulled from http://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/reports/ - UTM Zone15 NAD83


Maps

20100430_Estimated_Tracks: Map that illustrates estimated Storm Tracks


20100503-STATEWIDE NOAA STORM REPORT: Map that illustrates information obtained from http://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/reports/ for April 30 & May 1, 2010


20100503-ADEQ_Permitted_Sites_in_Damage_Path: Map that illustrates ADEQ Permitted Sites that were within a quarter mile of 04/30/10 Storm Tracks

Please consider sending your data and/or maps related to this event to learon.dalby(at)arkansas.gov and shelby.johnson(at)arkansas.gov. The GIS information will be added to the ftp site for the larger community to use.

April 30, 2010 Strong Storms

Strong storms passed through the state on April 30, 2010. These storms produced several sever thunderstorm tracks and possible tornadoes. The AGIO has set up an ftp site to provide a single place to gather and distribute maps, and GIS data related to this event. Link to ftp (ftp://ftp.geostor.arkansas.gov/Event/20100430_Weather)

Please consider sending your data and/or maps related to this event to learon.dalby(at)arkansas.gov and shelby.johnson(at)arkansas.gov. The GIS information will be added to the ftp site for the larger community to use.

City Boundary and Road Centerline Updates

City Boundaries- provided by the Arkansas Highway & Transportation Department
http://www.geostor.arkansas.gov/G6/Home.html?id=1e4ac0a30bf74bbfc90af81180b36265

Arkansas Road Centerline file- Madison, Union, and Woodruff provided by each county
Clip, format, ship- http://www.geostor.arkansas.gov/G6/Home.html?q=acf+dl
Statewide in shapefile format- ftp://ftp.geostor.arkansas.gov/Public_Statewide/ (file name: TRANSP_ROADS_ACF_line)

Data Updates to Fire & Law Enforcement

The fire station and law enforcement layer have been updated. http://bit.ly/c6lail

Jonesboro, AR Road Data Added

63 new road features from Jonesboro, AR have been added to the Arkansas Road Centerline File. "These were effectively added to the existing centerline files, and addressed if addresses were available.  Some of the roads exist, but no houses have been built on them, and are not assigned addresses yet.  They were placed by the 2009 NAIP aerial image." stated Rusty McAllister, GIS Coordinator for the City of Jonesboro.


Thanks Rusty


Metadata for Road Centerline File (http://bit.ly/4juvmq) 

New Data- Justice of Peace Districts

Justice of the Peace Districts for select counties are now available via GeoStor. The Arkansas Secretary of State created and provided this data set. Work continues to complete the JP districts in all 75 counties. The following counties are currently available for download:  Arkansas, United States of America, Ashley, Baxter, Bradley, Calhoun, Carroll, Chicot, Clark, Cleburne, Columbia, Craighead, Crawford, Crittenden, Dallas, Franklin, Fulton, Garland, Grant, Hot Spring, Howard, Izard, Jackson, Jefferson, Johnson, Lincoln, Little River, Lonoke, Madison, Montgomery, Nevada, Ouachita, Perry, Phillips, Poinsett, Polk, Pulaski, Randolph, Sevier, Sharp, Stone, Union, Van Buren, Woodruff, Yell.

Link to files metadata http://www.geostor.arkansas.gov/G6/Home.html?id=bc09f8361b438f35d5e8c237cbe9e8c3