Weather and Environment

NOAAWatch - Offers information about ongoing environmental events, and explains the role of NOAA in prediction, monitoring, and recovery from environmental hazards.

NWS/SPC's Severe Weather Information - By organizing information from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center, Tom Priddy (EDEN POC for the University of Kentucky) has made it possible for you to easily access real time severe weather information for your state.

     Earthquake

USGS - Latest Earthquakes in the USA  http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/ 

     Flood

USGS WaterWatch - Map of real-time streamflow compared to historical streamflow for the day of the year (United States) - http://waterwatch.usgs.gov/

NOAA-NWS Floods and Flood Prediction -  http://water.weather.gov/ahps/ 

NOAA-NWS National Flood Outlook -  - http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/nationalfloodoutlook/

NOAA-NWS National Snow Analysis - http://www.nohrsc.nws.gov/nsa/

     Hurricane

NOAA-NWS National Hurricane Center - Tropical Storm Prediction - http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/

NOAA-NWS National Hurricane Center - RSS Feeds - http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutrss.shtml

     Volcano

USGS Volcanic Activity -  - http://volcano.wr.usgs.gov/activity/index.php

     Fire

USGS Fire Weather -  - http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/fire_wx/overview.html

Forest Service Active Fires -  -  http://activefiremaps.fs.fed.us/ 

FEMA Declarations - Disaster, Emergency, and Fire Management Assistance http://www.fema.gov/news/disasters.fema

Agricultural Declarations -   http://www.fsa.usda.gov/FSA/webapp?area=home&subject=diap&topic=landing 

Fisheries Failures - The Department of Commerce can provide disaster assistance under either sections 308(b) or 308(d) of the Interjurisdictional Fisheries Act (IFA)(16 U.S.C. 4107), as amended, or section 312(a) of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (Magnuson-Stevens Act) (16 U.S.C. 1861)     http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/sfa/sf3/disaster.htm

NOAA's nowCOAST  - nowCOAST is a web mapping web page providing links to thousands of real-time coastal observations and NOAA forecasts of interest to the marine community.

Hurricane Katrina and Rita Clearinghouse Cooperative - GIS clearinghouse established at the Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge to facilitate the collection, dissemination, and archiving of data related to Hurricane Katrina and Rita.

SHELDUS™ 7: A county-level hazard data set for the U.S. for 18 different natural hazard events types such thunderstorms, hurricanes, floods, wildfires, and tornados. For each event the database includes the beginning date, location (county and state), property losses, crop losses, injuries, and fatalities that affected each county. The data set does not include Puerto Rico, Guam, or other U.S. territories. The new version of SHELDUS™ (7) contains more than 600,000 records and spans the years from 1960 through 2008.

Note: Watch and outlook sites frequently also have historical data.

EDEN delegates and other users of the Disaster Watch section of the Web site are invited to submit additional resources and formating suggestions for this page. Contact Pat Skinner: pskinner@agcenter.lsu.edu.