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tornadoes-2024-dow-vmax-greenfield·dataset

Peak Wind Speed of the Greenfield, Iowa Tornado (2024)

Derived Maximum Velocity (Greenfield, IA; DOW7)
atmosphere NASA VEDA COG
In plain English

What it measures. The estimated maximum wind speed, in miles per hour, derived from radar inside the EF-4 tornado that struck Greenfield, Iowa on May 21, 2024.

How it's made. Calculated from DOW7 mobile Doppler-on-Wheels radar velocity readings, converted from meters per second to miles per hour.

How & where you'd use it. Gives a clear top-end wind figure to convey just how violent the tornado was.

What's measured

tornadoes2024dowvmaxgreenfield

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2024-05-21 → 2024-05-21
  • Spatial extent-94.478, 41.291, -94.416, 41.32
  • FormatsCOG

What you can do with it

  • Map air pollutants — NO₂, aerosols, ozone
  • Track greenhouse gases and Earth's energy budget
  • Feed weather and air-quality analysis
Official description

Derived maximum velocities of the EF-4 Greenfield, IA tornado on May 21, 2024 collected by DOW7. Converted from m/s to mph.

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("tornadoes-2024-dow-vmax-greenfield")
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).