View NOAA/NWS NEXRAD in ArcGIS 9.x

View NOAA/NWS NEXRAD in ArcGIS 9.X

August 22nd, 2006 · 5 Comments · ArcGIS Desktop, ArcScripts, ESRI, Extensions, GIS

We had a little rain last night so I figured I’d spend my morning looking for ways to bring Doppler radar imagery into ArcMap. There are of course a ton of ways (and at 9.2 you’ll have even more), but one simple ArcScript caught my eye. NOAA/NWS WEATHER FOR ArcGIS 9.X gives ArcMap users access some some nice NOAA/NWS radar imagery. Simplicity I think is what caught my eye (Of course I’d rather just add a WMS service, but that will have to wait) and sometimes that is the best way to be productive.

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5 responses so far ↓

1 Ken // Aug 23, 2006 at 9:41 am

This looks great. I almost installed it until I saw this in the README:

“IMPORTANT!!! THIS PROGRAM CREATES A FOLDER (www.srh.noaa.gov) TO STORE THE IMAGERY UNDER C:\GIS\NWSRADAR\ AND SHOULD BE DELETED AFTER USE OR YOUR HARD DRIVE WILL BE OVER LOADED! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!”

I’ve been using accuweather that I found on Mapdex for my weather, and is working out pretty good.
2 Andy // Aug 24, 2006 at 6:30 am

Indeed. I was pretty excited about it when I downloaded it Monday, then I saw the readme too. Are there any WMS weather services?
3 Micah // Aug 24, 2006 at 12:57 pm

We plan to add WMS capability in the near future, but if you have ArcMAP you can connect to nowcoast.noaa.gov
4 dbSpatial // Aug 31, 2006 at 2:20 pm

NWS Weather Radar WMS:
http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/cgi-bin/wms/nexrad/n0r-t.cgi?&SERVICE=WMS&REQUEST=GetCapabilities

Example using WMS-T (WMS with time ability):
http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/cgi-bin/wms/nexrad/n0r-t.cgi?&SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.1.1&REQUEST=GetMap&layers=nexrad_base_reflect,nexrad-n0r-wmst&time=2004-08-23T20:35

Shown here in OpenLayers:
http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/wmst.html
5 Brian Crumpler // Nov 10, 2006 at 7:06 pm

With ArcGIS Explorer Coming out in the next week or so, radar and warning data will be viewable in ArcGIS and in ArcGIS Explorer.

http://radar.weather.gov/GIS.html has KML/KMZ warnings and radar outputs. They access the data on the NWS Website, and are updated every minute for warnings, and every two minutes for radar images.