Weather Files
 

Here's a sampling of the Weather files on The Thunderbolt BBS.

4CAST2BB.ZIP 259958
| Weather Forcats door - users can request forcasts for most cities.
ADSKYWRN.PDF 3377923
| Advanced Skywarn Severe Storm Spotters Reporting Guide. Requires the
| Adobe Acrobat Reader to view.
AIRPRTID.ZIP 80461
| List Of Airport ID's for United States, Canada, and International Weather
| Stations.
ARSKYWRN.PDF 957517
| Article on "Arkansas Skywarn (R)" from the January, 2012 issue of CQ
| Magazine. Required the Adobe Acrobat Reader to view.
AVWX.ZIP 121677
| Help file for Windows for decoding coded NWS reports.
BALLOON.ZIP 44669
| Weather balloon tracking program
BSSKYWRN.PDF 570770
| Basic Skywarn Severe Storm Spotters Reporting Guide. Requires the
| Adobe Acrobat Reader to view.
CLOUDS.ZIP 23859
| Cloud information
CQWX0112.PDF 957517
| Article from January, 2012 issue of CQ Magazine on Arkansas Skywarn.
CQWX0412.PDF 2625960
| Article from April, 2012 issue of CQ Magazine on Arkansas Skywarn and
| The Weather Watch Net, with the Jan. 22, 2012 Tornado Outbreak.
DECODE.ZIP 45678
| Program for "decoding" NWS statements from NWS shorthand to English.
DIAMETER.JPG 798853
| Picture of the largest hailstone ever recorded in the United States,
| nearly 8 inches in diameter, from a supercell in Vivian, South Dakota.
| The stone was 18.625 inches in circumference, at almost 2 pounds!!
| Several hailstones from the sam severe thunderstorm exceeded 6 inches
| in diameter!!
EMWIN.ZIP 339499
| Information on the Emergency Managers Weather Information Network
FORECAST.ZIP 41103
| Weather forecasting program
HURANDRW.ZIP 2705
| Information on Hurricane Andrew from formation to final landfall
HURINFO.ZIP 16244
| Hurricane information
HURLIST.PDF 6279992
| The deadliest, costliest, and most intense U.S. Tropical Cyclones from
| 1851 to 2010, and other frequently requested hurricane facts. Published
| by the Tropical Prediction Center/National Hurricane Center, Miami, FL.
HURRNAME.ZIP 7291
| From the website of the Tropical Prediction Center in Miami, FL; here's a
| list of all hurricane names for the various regions around the world, and
| how the storms are named.
LGHTNING.ZIP 4605
| Lightning information
MARINE.ZIP 8250
| Marine Weather frequencies
METINFO.ZIP 5564
| So you want to be a meteorologist?? Read this file to find out how.
MOONPHAS.ZIP 461092
| MoonPhase -- See what the current Moon Phase is in your taskbar. Requires
| Windows 95 or higher.
NIMBUS.ZIP 7091
| More cloud information
NWSAWARE.PDF 1349738
| Current issue of the National Weather Service Newsletter, AWARE. Requires
| Adobe Acrobat Reader to view.
ROCKYMTN.ZIP 1681
| An article on lightning safety from the Rocky Mountain News
SAFRFUJI.ZIP 2773
| The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane and Fujita Tornado scales
SEVERE.ZIP 4290
| Tornado and hurricane information
SKYWARN.ZIP 2860
| Information on the National Weather Service SKYWARN Storm Spotter Program
SPOTFREQ.ZIP 27154
| Skywarn Weather Spotting Frequency List for all states of the Rockies by
| Keith Brewster. Revised April 29, 1998. Corrections/Additions welcome,
| send to: or (c)1995-1998 Keith
| Brewster; permission granted for free distribution only.
STORM.ZIP 126710
| Storm tracking program
SUNSPOT.ZIP 7384
| Sunspot information
SVR-WARN.ZIP 2862
| Arkansas' county outline for severe weather watches
TCYCPREP.PDF 1071090
| Tropical Cyclone Preparedness Guide. Requires the Adobe Acrobat Reader
| to view.
TDAWXHST.ZIP 290040
| Weather data files for the Today In History program. Data after 1990
| is partial.
TWEATH12.ZIP 44771
| TriWeather v1.2 - For use with TriBBS Bulletin Board Systems.
| TriWeather creates both ANSI and MONO bulletins which contain the
| local weather fore- cast as entered by the sysop. Use as a logon screen
| to offer the users of your BBS the local weather forecast. Simple to
| set up & use. Has automatic creation of the TWEATHER.CFG and the
| TWEATHER.DAT files by entering data when prompted via internal
| program commands. Read TWEATHER.HIS file for information regarding
| changes made to v 1.2. TriWeather is DonationWare from FC Software!
WB116S.ZIP 60570
| Weather Board v_1.15 Shareware (c) Rhino Ware A weather information
| retrieval program. Installs & runs as an event from a BBS or front end
| mailer. Weather Board will give you and your users up to the hour weather
| information for your area. Weather Board can be used as a bulletin or as
| a logon screen. It uses the WeatherMation number at the nearest airport.
| Multi-BBS compatible and works under multi taskers and DOS. Not crippled
| and the registration is very reasonable. Try it today!
WBD148R.ZIP 101496
| Weather Board [Dos] 1.48 Registered (c) Rhino Ware A weather information
| retrieval program that uses WeatherMation, not DUAT. Installs & runs as
| an event from a BBS or front end mailer. Weather Board will give you and
| your users up to the hour weather information for your area. Weather
| Board can be used as a bulletin or as a logon screen. It uses the
| WeatherMation number at the nearest airport. Multi-BBS compatible and
| works under multi taskers and DOS. Zone Forecasts are now supported.
| Full file paths are now supported.
WEA150.ZIP 33485
| Weather Notice 1.50b RIP/ANSI Weather Weather notice is a simple door
| which displays a nice, clear, RIP or ANSI screen with the week's weather.
| Sysops can edit the weather information remotely, quickly and easily as
| necessary. (c)1994 CIO Corp / by Neale Davidson
WEATHER.ZIP 30031
| Display data from a weather database.
WETDOR55.ZIP 126247
| WeatherCaster v5.5 The Premiere Online Weather Forecasting Door program.
| Contains many functions from Wind chill computation to Forecasting the
| Weather to Tornado track charts. Also included is a qmodem Script to call
| FAA Duat and obtain the weather forecast and Maps for your area!
WETSOCK.ZIP 1708296
| Wetsock from Robomagic. Weather data and warnings on your desktop.
| Shareware.
WWV.ZIP 9765
| Information on the WWV time frequencies to set your clocks by
WX60.ZIP 57073
| Weather forecasting program
WXABRV.ZIP 19798
| Weather abbreviations
WXGLOSS.ZIP 247455
| Files for the Weather Glossary Door, used in conjunction with the BULLET
| door, originally done by Dave Perry. See the README.1ST file for details.
WXIDENT.ZIP 22031
| 3 letter identifiers for weather stations
WXINHIST.ZIP 245812
| Weather On This Date In History Data courtesy of the Storm Prediction
| Center. If you wish to use these, please get permission from them. They
| can be reached on the Internet at: http://www.spc.noaa.gov
WXSAFETY.ZIP 53074
| Weather Safety Rules and Information. This covers tornadoes,
| thunderstorms and lightning, hail, SKYWARN Storm Spotters, Storm Chasers,
| Flash Floods, Tropical Storms and Hurricanes, and The Weather And Your
| Health
WXTERMS.ZIP 3807
| Weather Terms used in Public Information Statements
WXWTCHNT.ZIP 10145162
| Recordings from The Weather Watch Net, with Daryl Stout, AE5WX as Net
| Control. The 3 recordings are from 6:50am to 7:20am, 7:20am to 7:50am,
| and 7:50am to 8:20am, with audio from the W5DI Repeater System.
WX_ICONS.ZIP 24912
| WX_ICONS version 1.0 -- the Roger Edwards gallery of weather icons for
| Windows.

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