Datasets:

lukeslp
/

noaa-significant-storms

license: cc0-1.0
task_categories:
  - feature-extraction
language:
  - en
tags:
  - weather
  - storms
  - tornadoes
  - hurricanes
  - natural-disasters
  - noaa
  - geospatial
  - united-states
  - climate
  - meteorology
pretty_name: NOAA Significant US Storms (1950-2025)
size_categories:
  - 1K<n<10K

NOAA Significant US Storms (1950-2025)

14,770 major tornadoes, hurricanes, and fatal weather events (1950-2025)

Curated subset of NOAA Storm Events database - 98.8% reduction from 1.23 million records to focus on significant events: F3/EF3+ tornadoes, Category 3+ hurricanes, fatal events, and storms with $1M+ damage.

Dataset Structure

See demo_notebook.ipynb for data exploration examples.

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

# Load the dataset
dataset = load_dataset("lukeslp/noaa-significant-storms")

# Or load from local files
import json
with open('data.json') as f:
    data = json.load(f)

Citation

@dataset{noaa_significant_storms_2026,
  title = {NOAA Significant US Storms (1950-2025)},
  author = {Steuber, Luke},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/lukeslp/noaa-significant-storms}
}

Distribution

GitHub: lukeslp/noaa-significant-storms
Kaggle: lucassteuber/noaa-significant-storms

Author

Luke Steuber

License

CC0-1.0