US Tornado Touchdown Data

Description

Data set from NOAA's National Weather Service Indianapolis, IN Weather Forecast Office 6900 W. Hanna Ave.

Usage

 
data(tornados)
torn
torn2 

Format

• torn Tornado Touchdown points SpatialPointsDataFrame - geographical projection

• torn2 Tornado Touchdown points SpatialPointsDataFrame - equal area projection

Source

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/ind/?n=svrgis

Examples

# Read in the data
data(tornados)
# Split the plot in two
par(mfrow=c(2,1))
# Plot US states
plot(us_states)
# Add Locations of observation stations
plot(torn,add=TRUE,pch=16,col='red')
# Plot a histogram of year of observation next to this
hist(torn$YEAR)

Results

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> library(GISTools)
Loading required package: maptools
Loading required package: sp
Checking rgeos availability: TRUE
Loading required package: RColorBrewer
Loading required package: MASS
Loading required package: rgeos
rgeos version: 0.3-19, (SVN revision 524)
 GEOS runtime version: 3.5.0-CAPI-1.9.0 r4084 
 Linking to sp version: 1.2-3 
 Polygon checking: TRUE 

> png(filename="/home/ddbj/snapshot/RGM3/R_CC/result/GISTools/tornados.Rd_%03d_medium.png", width=480, height=480)
> ### Name: tornados
> ### Title: US Tornado Touchdown Data
> ### Aliases: tornados torn torn2
> 
> ### ** Examples
> 
> # Read in the data
> data(tornados)
> # Split the plot in two
> par(mfrow=c(2,1))
> # Plot US states
> plot(us_states)
> # Add Locations of observation stations
> plot(torn,add=TRUE,pch=16,col='red')
> # Plot a histogram of year of observation next to this
> hist(torn$YEAR)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> dev.off()
null device 
          1 
>