Storm Prediction Center - Report Script

[Curly]

The Storm Prediction Center catagorizes the storm events and lists their reports in UTC, or Zulu time, on a 24 hour basis.
In an active day, the reports are hard to follow the time line of events taking place so I'm sharing a script that makes it easier to read.
Depending on your hosts' server, the report times are set to your timezone so there's less confusion about offsets and time differences. The event types are combined and sorted by the time, and archived reports are available along with a link back to NOAA. A note at the bottom describes the time frame when the reports are generated. It's XHTML 1.0 Strict.

Thanks goes out to  Beau at http://www.n9mfk.com/index.php  and  Brian at http://www.nas-kan.org/Weather/   for their time and input on the script.

The script is free to use and you can modify anything in it. If you have any questions, just contact me.


EDIT: Program updated
Click here to download the SPC Reports

[katlon]

Curly.
Thanks for the script. I have put it at:http://pulliamjr.com/spc/spc.php

Lonnie

[Curly]

Your welcome Lonnie!
You made it fit right in with your theme. Nice touch!

Have you spotted the archived report with more than 650 storm reports for that day?

[W Thomas]

The Storm Prediction Center catagorizes the storm events and lists their reports in UTC, or Zulu time, on a 24 hour basis.
In an active day, the reports are hard to follow the time line of events taking place so I'm sharing a script that makes it easier to read.
Depending on your hosts' server, the report times are set to your timezone so there's less confusion about offsets and time differences. The event types are combined and sorted by the time, and archived reports are available along with a link back to NOAA. A note at the bottom describes the time frame when the reports are generated. It's XHTML 1.0 Strict.

See it here  http://www.weather.ricksturf.com/SPCreports.php
Download it here  http://www.weather.ricksturf.com/scripts/SPC.zip

Thanks goes out to  Beau at http://www.n9mfk.com/index.php  and  Brian at http://www.nas-kan.org/Weather/   for their time and input on the script.

The script is free to use and you can modify anything in it. If you have any questions, just contact me.

Curly

What a great useful script!
I just became able to support php scripting and have snagged it! Otherwise I would have had it up and running long ago!
viewable here   www.smythweather.net/spc/SPC.php

Thanks for your generosity!!!

[Curly]

Thanks Wayne!
I'm glad you like it. 

I just became able to support php scripting ...

Oh boy...  You'll be busy for the next several months!
You will find that there's a wide variety of php scripts around here and there's plenty of help at hand when you need it. There's something for everyone!
  "If you can't find it here, you'll find a link to it!"

Curly

[W Thomas]

Absolutely!!!
I can see I am going to be performing many changes in the future! All for the better too!

I definitely should have went this route ( hosting) in the first place!  I was so much limited when
I was hosted on an IIS server.

That script is already a hit among some trucker friends of mine that frequent the tornado alley area weekly.
Strangely these guys are computer literate and use the net for a variety of info related to their job.

Thanks Again!

[hayskswx]

Anyone mind sharing this script. The link to download it doesn't work.

[Curly]

I'm currently rewriting this program to replace the current one and it will be announced when available.

[hayskswx]

OK Thanks.

[Curly]

UPDATED

This SPC Reports script has been rewritten and now available.

View it here
Download SPC Reports

[gwwilk]

Thanks, Curly!  The script installs easily and works beautifully.    There were lots of reports yesterday, but so far today there are none.

[Curly]

Thanks Jerry.

There were lots of reports yesterday, but so far today there are none.

Since you've mentioned "yesterday" and "today", I thought maybe I should bring this up because it can be confusing.

Daily reports start at 12:00 GMT and end at 11:59 GMT the next day. Not midnight to midnight like a normal day.
If you are in the EDT time zone, "today" starts at 8:00am EDT and ends tomorrow at 7:59am EDT.
Or 7am CDT until 6:59am CDT tomorrow.

Let's say you look at "today's" reports later on this afternoon.
If there were reports at 5 and 6 o'clock this morning in your time zone, they would be listed in yesterdays report and not today's report. 

A good example of this happened on  May 25 2011. There are about 100 reports listed for the 26th.

[gwwilk]

That explains why when I started playing with it before 7AM CDT today I was seeing reports for May 22, 2012 by default.  After 7AM that all went away and today's reports were then targeted.  Still none @1640Zulu, BTW, but I'll bet that's gonna change.

[DaculaWeather]

I pull this from the SPC site. Go to this page and look on the right hand side: http://www.daculaweather.com/4_spc_day1_outlook.php

[saratogaWX]

Thanks for another fine script, Curly!  I've put it on my main site here.  Works great 'out-of-the-box'

Best regards,
Ken

[n3ouc]

Curly,
I too thank you very much for the great script. Its an instant hit on the website!!!

Take Care,
Mike

[Gootch]

Running Here http://www.sunprairieweather.com/wxSPCreports.php

Thanks Much Andy

[DaculaWeather]

Running here http://www.daculaweather.com/4_spc_storm_reports.php

[ed2kayak]

Thanks Curly!
http://cvweather.org/wxSPCreports.php

[WeatherBeacon]

Thanks much, Curly!

[daybreak]

Is this script still available?

Richard

[jay_hoehn]

The link is 12 posts down.

Jay

[WeatherBeacon]

Is this script still available?

Richard

Look at Reply #9.

[daybreak]

It doesn't work.

[jay_hoehn]

I just downloaded it in Google Chrome and Internet Explorer from the link.  Are you sure it is not going to a download folder somewhere on your machine.

Jay