Severe Weather

Wisconsin’s Tornado and Severe Weather Awareness Week is April 12-16

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by Angie Cope

Modern day storm tracking relies on Doppler radar data and computer algorithms to forecast and identify dangerous weather.

In the past, The Department of Commerce produced daily weather maps … in print. Many libraries across the country have stacks of these maps.

U.S. Weather Bureau Surface Analysis at 7:00 am CST (1300 UTC) on April 17, 1912. Map Credit: NOAA Central Library Data Imaging Project. Daily Weather Maps, 17 April 1912.

Daily weather maps continue to aid researchers but are prepared in digital format by the National Centers for Environmental Prediction, Weather Prediction Center.

https://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/dailywxmap/

The AGS Library has many weather maps, photographs and data sets. Here are a few maps from the American Geographical Society Library Digital Map Collection.

Superoutbreak tornadoes of April 3-4, 1974 / by the University of Chicago
Call number: 800-c .E2C4 I-1974 1975
https://collections.lib.uwm.edu/digital/collection/agdm/id/16471
U.S. tornadoes, 1930-74 / research directed by T. Theodore Fujita and Allen D. Pearson ; appreciation is due to Martha Hardy [and others] / by the University of Chicago
Call number: 800 I-1976
https://collections.lib.uwm.edu/digital/collection/agdm/id/24523

For more information on data or maps from the AGS Library, contact us via email at: agsl@uwm.edu

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