RADAR estimated precipitation National Weather Service Medford

RADAR ESTIMATED HOURLY RAINFALL

This precipitation data is estimated from the Medford radar located on Mt. Ashland. This data may be used e.g. for fire planning and strategic support. It can be overlayed with lighning data to assist in allocating resources to locate possible fire starts. This data is an estimation based upon radar returns and is most reliable when compared to ground reports.

DIRECTIONS

• Left click on the file name. A window will open to ask you to save these files. Save the files on your hard drive or in your project folder.
• There are two files for each hour of precipitation data, .gif and .gfw that are included for each hour.
• File naming convention: MAX_YearMoDa_Time_N1P where MAX is the identifier of the Medford Radar, Year is the year, Mo is the month, Da is the day, Time is the time in UTC and N1P indicates one hour precipitation.
  

Example: MAX_20080507_2252_N1P is the one hour precipitation data for May 7th, 2008 at 2252 UTC.

• These files are designed to be loaded into GIS software. To view the image in GIS, add the .gif file to a new project, then load background layers and additional layers, such as lightning.
• These files were created in a standard geographic projection referenced to the North American Datum 1983.