Reproducing NOAA "avocado plot" and high tornado risk forecast for Jul 15, 2024 U.S. Midwest

[gosiak (Gosia Konwerska)]

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[anon21378091]

Thanks for this great post. I would like to point out that there are more convenient data formats available from NOAA (Storm Prediction Center Product & Report Archives). This one seems good for the tornado problem:

Import[
 "https://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/outlook/archive/2024/day1otlk_20240715_2000_torn.lyr.geojson",
 "Data"]

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