alertAreas: Alert Areas Used by the National Weather Service

Description Usage Format Details Source See Also

Description

Polygons defining the states, counties, and zones used by the United States National Weather Service (NWS) to define alert areas.

Usage

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Format

A SpatialPolygons object of length 7526 whose names are 2-letter state abbreviations and 6-character Universal Geographic Code (UGC) county and zone codes. Polygons are specified in WGS84 coordinates.

Details

Package will be periodically updated following updates to alert areas by the National Weather Service.

Source

https://www.weather.gov/gis/AWIPSShapefiles

See Also

Package weatherAlerts


ianmcook/weatherAlertAreas documentation built on March 31, 2021, 8:53 a.m.