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Storm Reports, Part 2: How Do We Use Them? – September 2024

Storm Reports: how do we use them? (Part 2) In Part 1 – Storm Reports: Where Do They Come From – we discussed the various sources of obtaining storm report information. In Part 2 we will show an example of how Haag Certified Consulting Meteorologists can supplement official storm reports with information provided by other hail report databases to increase detail in the analysis of a complex severe weather event.  A recent hail event near St. Louis, Missouri highlighted the utility of using Preliminary Local Storm Reports (PLSRs) and Community Collaborative Rain, Hail, and Snow (CoCoRaHS) reports in analyzing a hailstorm. The official National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) Storm Events Database entries for this event contained a handful of hail reports across the St. Louis metro, some of which were entered into the database as hail swaths, despite the NWS receiving dozens of additional hail reports. Keep in mind

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The Hunt for Damage: Hail & Wind Damage to Commercial Roofs, August 2024

The Hunt for Damage: Where are our most damage-susceptible areas when it comes to wind and hail damage to commercial buildings? By Amber Prom, P.E., Director of Curriculum, Forensic Engineer When assessing a property for potential hail and/or wind damage, evaluating is easier when we understand how storms impact a building.  If you’ve taken any of Haag’s damage assessment training, you know by now that storms typically impact a property with directionality.  Winds are blowing a certain direction, the storm itself is moving in a certain direction, and thus, the winds are going to push on some of the building surfaces and pull on other surfaces depending on which direction the winds are blowing.  In the same sense, hailstones are going to fall from the sky in a diagonal nature, causing more direct and frequent impacts on some structure surfaces, with little to no impacts on others.  Moreover, there are

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Haag’s Storm Reports: Accurate, Reliable Weather Event Data for Insurance & Legal Professionals

Haag’s Storm REPORTS Portal: Accurate, Reliable Weather Data for Insurance and Legal Professionals According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 2023 produced an unprecedented number of billion-dollar disasters – 28 in total – across the United States. This is the highest number of billion-dollar disasters in the U.S. on record. In the first six months alone, 12 individual billion-dollar weather and climate disasters devastated parts of the nation. These 28 events from 2023 included 17 severe weather/hail events and two tornado outbreaks. According to NOAA’s billion-dollar disaster record dating back to 1980, the U.S. has sustained 376 separate weather and climate disasters exceeding a cumulative cost of $2.660 trillion. As homes and properties are increasingly affected by severe weather, access to reliable information about these events is critical. NOAA and several other agencies meticulously track these events and have incredible amounts of data available to users. But which

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