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Power Outages From the 2024 Lakeview, Ohio Tornado

Black Marble Night Lights (Lakeview OH Tornado Damage; Difference)
hydrosphere NASA VEDA COG
In plain English

What it measures. Compares night-time lighting before and after a 2024 tornado at Lakeview, Ohio to reveal where lights went dark.

How it's made. From NASA's Black Marble night-lights imagery, which detects city lights at night from space.

How & where you'd use it. Helps responders find neighborhoods that lost power and were hit hardest by the storm.

What's measured

lakeviewnightlightstornadoes2024

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2024-03-14 → 2024-03-14
  • Spatial extent-84.295, 40.201, -83.576, 40.691
  • FormatsCOG

What you can do with it

  • Follow rainfall, floods and surface-water extent
  • Track soil moisture and the onset of drought
  • Monitor lakes, rivers and groundwater storage
Official description

Black Marble night lights imagery of tornado damage at Lakeview, Ohio in the spring 2024 tornado season.

Get the data

veda_access.py
# NASA VEDA — open STAC API, anonymous (cloud-optimized GeoTIFFs)
from pystac_client import Client

cat = Client.open("https://openveda.cloud/api/stac")
col = cat.get_collection("lakeview-nightlights-tornadoes-2024")
items = list(col.get_items())          # browse the analysis-ready COGs
# open an asset with rioxarray:
# import rioxarray; da = rioxarray.open_rasterio(items[0].assets["cog_default"].href)
NASA VEDA is an open STAC catalog — browse and stream the cloud-optimized GeoTIFFs anonymously (no login).