shannonbox1999/clearpick-storm-aggregates

ClearPick U.S. Metro Storm Event Aggregates

Per-metro, per-year severe-weather aggregates (hail, thunderstorm wind, tornado) for 21 U.S. metros, derived from the NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database and maintained by ClearPick.

• Source data: NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database (U.S. government work, public domain)
• Coverage: Tue Mar 24 → Sun Mar 22, 5,935 underlying events, 21 metros
• Methodology & analysis: clearpick.us/insights — each article cites the specific queries behind its claims
• Updated: 2026-07-19 · re-runnable from the source database (aggregates are GROUP BY city_slug, event_type, year)

Schema (aggregates.jsonl)

Field	Type	Description
city_slug	string	Metro identifier, e.g. dallas-tx
event_type	string	NOAA event type (Hail, Thunderstorm Wind, Tornado, …)
year	integer	Calendar year of event begin date
events	integer	Count of NOAA events
max_magnitude	number|null	Max magnitude that year (hail inches / wind kts)
injuries_direct	integer	Sum of direct injuries
damage_property_usd	integer	Sum of reported property damage (USD)

Query with DuckDB

SELECT city_slug, year, events
FROM read_json_auto('hf://datasets/shannonbox1999/clearpick-storm-aggregates/aggregates.jsonl')
WHERE event_type = 'Hail' ORDER BY events DESC LIMIT 10;

Citation

@dataset{clearpick_storm_aggregates,
  title  = {ClearPick U.S. Metro Storm Event Aggregates},
  author = {ClearPick},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://www.clearpick.us/insights}
}