View NOAA/NWS NEXRAD in ArcGIS 9.X

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 Comments

  1. Ken says:

    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 says:

    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 says:

    We plan to add WMS capability in the near future, but if you have ArcMAP you can connect to nowcoast.noaa.gov

  4. Brian Crumpler says:

    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.