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How to pull every NOAA hail report near an address (free data, no API key)
If you run a roofing or restoration company, you have probably paid for a hail map. The raw data behind most of them is public: the NOAA Storm Prediction Center (SPC) publishes a CSV of every hail, damaging-wind and tornado report for every day since 2004.
The files are awkward to use directly:
There is one file per day per hazard.
Hail size is stored in hundredths of an inch ( 175 means 1.75").
An SPC "day" runs from 12:00 UTC to 11:59 UTC the next day, so a report logged at 01:00 ...
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