Jed talks with Kwin Keuter and Brad Andrick, geospatial software engineers at Earth Genome, about the Storm Events Database Explorer. This collaborative project between Earth Genome, The Commons, and the Internet of Water Coalition provides access to over 1.9 million U.S. severe weather events spanning 70+ years of NOAA’s National Center for Environmental Information (NCEI) storm records, including tornadoes, floods, hail, and hurricanes.

Links and Resources

• Storm Events Database Explorer — Interactive map and search interface
• Storm Events Database on Source Cooperative — Cloud-optimized Parquet files
• Earth Genome blog post on the project — Technical process and discovery work
• The Commons case study — Project background and case study
• NOAA Storm Events Database — Original NOAA dataset and beta interface
• GeoParquet.io — Chris Holmes’s project for working with Parquet files
  
  More show notes and transcript at https://greatdataproducts.com/episodes/2026/02/keuter-andrick-storm-events/