Automated Data Plotter

This application dynamically generates many types of graphs. These graphs are derived from processing of various data sources done by the IEM. Please feel free to use these generated graphics in whatever way you wish. Reset App. The IEM Explorer application offers a simplified frontend to some of these autoplots.


First, select a chart type::

Second, select specific chart options::

Select 3 Character Product ID (AWIPS ID / AFOS)
Statistic to Plot
Summarize by:
Search archive starting at (UTC Timestamp):
(YYYY/mm/dd HH24MI)
Search archive ending at (UTC Timestamp):
(YYYY/mm/dd HH24MI)
Color Ramp:
  Reverse Colormap?
Image Pixel Size @100 DPI
Image Resolution (DPI) (50 to 500)
Select Output Format:

Plot Description:

This application generates a map of the per WFO office usage of a given text product identifier based on unofficial IEM archives of NWS Text Product data. The three character IDs presented here are sometimes called the AWIPS ID or AFOS ID.

If you pick the "Year of First/Last Issuance", please be careful with the start datetime setting as it will floor the time period that products are searched for.

The IEM Archives are generally reliable back to 2001, so please note that any 2001 values plotted on the map as the first year would be a false positive.

Running a plot for multiple years of data will be somewhat slow (30+ seconds), so please be patient with it!

Autoplot 235 presents a monthly/yearly chart of issuance counts for a single Weather Forecast Offices.

Based on a sampling of recent timings for this application, plot generation time has averaged 7 seconds. Hold on for the plot is generating now!


View Data (as csv)   Download as Excel  
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