A Local Storm Report (LSR) is transmitted by the

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(NWS) when it receives significant information from

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s, such as

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s, storm chasers,

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officials,

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(now

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) personnel,

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s, EMTs or public citizens, about

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conditions in their warning responsibility area ( County Warning Area or CWA). Those reports are received by local National Weather Service offices (WFOs), and they can be used to issue

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s, and other weather warnings/bulletins, in addition to the LSR. The

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, working with the NWS WFOs, collects these reports for its own database, and it also works with the

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, which eventually stores the reports in the official record, which is called ''Storm Data''.

Example

The following is an example of a stand-alone LSR that has one individual report from a

SKYWARN Skywarn (sometimes stylized as SKYWARN) is a program of the National Weather Service (NWS). Its mission is to collect reports of localized severe weather in the United States. These reports are used to aid forecasters in issuing and verifying sev ...

spotter:

NWUS53 KGID 172339
LSRGID

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
639 PM CDT THU JUN 17 2010

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0636 PM     HAIL             2 SSW KIRWIN            39.64N 99.14W 
06/17/2010  E0.75 INCH       PHILLIPS           KS   TRAINED SPOTTER 

            DIME SIZE HAIL AT SCOUT RESERVATION 


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$$

Summary LSRs, which can have an extensive listing of individual reports, are also often issued by NWS WFOs after a weather event has ended in order to inform the public and

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outlets of the breadth of

across a WFO's CWA.

References

External links

Reports archive
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Example

See also

References

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