Storm Reports: How Do We Use Them?
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By Jared Leighton, CCM , CCM, Forensic Meteorologist
A recent hail event near St. Louis, Missouri highlighted the utility of using Preliminary Local Storm Reports (PLSRs) and Community Collaborative Rain, Hail, and Snow (CoCoRaHs) reports in analyzing a hailstorm. The official National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)?Storm Events Database?entries for this event contained a handful of hail reports across the St. Louis metro, some of which were entered into the database as hail swaths, despite the NWS receiving dozens of additional hail reports. Keep in mind that the primary objective of the NWS is not necessarily to document every instance of reported severe weather into the?Storm Events Database, rather it is to officially document enough reports to adequately verify the severe weather warnings that were issued...
It is important to remember that these databases are not fully quality-controlled, so while these reports are mappable and publicly available, the lack of a quality control process means that they could be prone to errors.?
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The Haag Geoportal is your ultimate tool for accessing detailed, reliable, and accurate weather reports, enabling you to make informed decisions and analyses. Our Geoportal Reports provide comprehensive data on various storm types, including hurricanes, wind, hail, and tornado events. Data is derived from verified national weather sources and is never manipulated. The Geoportal delivers precise information tailored to your specific location and needs. Ideal for:
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The Hunt for Damage: Hail & Wind to Commercial Roofs
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By Amber Prom, PE , Director of Curriculum, Forensic Engineer
When assessing a property for potential hail and/or wind damage, evaluating is easier when we understand how storms impact a building.? If you’ve taken any of Haag’s damage assessment training, you know by now that storms typically impact a property with directionality.? Winds are blowing a certain direction, the storm itself is moving in a certain direction, and thus, the winds are going to push on some of the building surfaces and pull on other surfaces depending on which direction the winds are blowing. ?In the same sense, hailstones are going to fall from the sky in a diagonal nature, causing more direct and frequent impacts on some structure surfaces, with little to no impacts on others.? Moreover, there are certain areas of a building that are simply more susceptible to becoming damaged by winds or hailstone impact than others.? By utilizing this knowledge, we can predict which portions of a building are likely to be more severely impacted by a storm, and where the weak spots are in a building, and look first at wherever those two areas overlap as these areas would surely become damaged before any other portions of the building.??
High Wind Pressure Zones
As mentioned previously, the winds in any given storm (except hurricanes) are, in most cases, going to blow in one primary direction.? That direction can change from storm to storm, but for any given storm, a single property typically experiences winds blowing in one primary direction.? Based on this direction, we can label the surfaces of our structure and predict what type of damage might occur from the resulting wind pressures.
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6 个月Very informative!