The IEM website's primary goal is to make archives of weather and climate data openly and easily accessible. Besides this website, a few others at Iowa State University are curated to support this effort. One of these includes MTArchive, which contains a number of meteorological domain specific data formats and general archives. Today's featured graphic highlights a new and very exciting archive that was added to MTArchive over the weekend. The National Severe Storms Forecast Center (NSSFC), generally and currently known as the Storm Prediction Center (SPC), had a microfilm archive of many of its products between the 1950s and 1980s. SPC worked to digitize these archives and the raw digitization can be found on the MTArchive website here. This information is hot off the presses, so the archive is not very user friendly yet to find specific products from specific dates. The hope is that this dataset will get curated over the coming months, with more useful products added to MTArchive and the IEM NWS Text Archives. The featured image is the watch that was issued about an hour prior to the Jordan, IA F5 tornado on 13 June 1976!

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