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A Local Storm Report or "LSR" is a product issued by the United States National Weather Service. Local Storm Reports contain information about a report of significant weather observed at a location, including the type and magnitude of weather observed, the time and date it was observed, the source of the report, and the number of fatalities and injuries known to have been caused by the event.

Format

NWaa5i Kccc DDHHMM
LSRccc
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CITY STATE
time am/pm time_zone day mon dd yyyy
..TIME...   ...EVENT...   ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....   ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
hhmm qM     EVENT         DIST DIR CITY           LL.LLd LLL.LLd   
MM/DD/YYYY  EMAG UNIT     COUNTY             ST   SOURCE  

            *** # FATAL, # INJ *** OR REMARKS  
            REMARKS CONTINUED FOR UP TO 500 CHARACTERS TOTAL  

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OPTIONAL FREE TEXT SUMMARY.
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FORECASTER NAME/NUMBER (OPTIONAL)

Item	Description	Example(s)
hhmm qM	Time with hour, minute, and AM or PM	0109 PM
EVENT	Event type	TORNADO TSTM WIND GST
DIST	Distance from city	10
DIR	Direction from city	NW
CITY	City name	NECHE
LL.LLd	Latitude to 2 decimal places and direction	38.31N
LLL.LLd	Longitude to 2 decimal places and direction, no negative sign, no leading zero	104.92W
MM/DD/YYYY	Date: month/day/4-digit year, no leading zero on month	8/22/2009
EMAG	Event magnitude value, led by determination method designator (E/M/U) for certain events	E2.5 M59 U6.50 EF4
UNIT	Units of the magnitude value	INCHES MPH
COUNTY	County name	PEMBINA
ST	State 2-letter postal abbreviation	ND
SOURCE	Source of the report	TRAINED SPOTTER
FATAL INJ	Numbers of fatalities and injuries, surrounded by 3 asterisks, separated by a comma, with spaces in between, at the beginning of the remarks section	*** 1 FATAL, 2 INJ *** *** 4 INJ ***

Available report sources

• AIRPLANE PILOT
• AMATEUR RADIO
• ASOS
• AWOS
• BROADCAST MEDIA
• BUOY
• C-MAN STATION
• COAST GUARD
• CO-OP OBSERVER
• COUNTY OFFICIAL
• DEPT OF HIGHWAYS
• EMERGENCY MNGR
• FIRE DEPT/RESCUE
• INSURANCE CO
• LAW ENFORCEMENT
• MESONET
• NEWSPAPER
• NWS EMPLOYEE
• NWS STORM SURVEY
• OFFICIAL NWS OBS
• OTHER FEDERAL
• PARK/FOREST SRVC
• POST OFFICE
• PUBLIC
• SHIP
• STORM CHASER
• TRAINED SPOTTER
• UNKNOWN
• UTILITY COMPANY

Available event types

• AVALANCHE
• BLIZZARD
• DENSE FOG
• DOWNBURST
• DROUGHT
• DUST STORM
• EXCESSIVE HEAT
• EXTREME COLD
• EXTR WIND CHILL
• FLASH FLOOD
• FLOOD
• FREEZE
• FREEZING RAIN
• FUNNEL CLOUD
• HAIL
• HEAVY RAIN
• HEAVY SNOW
• HIGH ASTR TIDES
• HIGH SUST WINDS
• HURRICANE
• ICE STORM
• LIGHTNING
• MARINE HAIL
• MARINE TSTM WIND
• NON-TSTM WND DMG
• NON-TSTORM WND GST
• RIP CURRENTS
• SEICHE
• SLEET
• SNOW
• STORM SURGE
• TORNADO
• TROPICAL STORM
• TSTM WND DMG
• TSTM WND GST
• WATER SPOUT
• WILDFIRE

Example

NWUS53 KSGF 242300
LSRSGF

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
559 PM CDT TUE MAY 24 2011

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0541 PM     TORNADO          JOPLIN                  37.08N 94.51W 
05/22/2011  F5               JASPER             MO   NWS STORM SURVEY

            *** 122 FATAL, 750 INJ *** A NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE 
            STORM SURVEY REVEALED THAT AN EF-5 TORNADO IMPACTED A 
            LARGE PORTION OF THE CITY OF JOPLIN. WIND SPEEDS WERE 
            ESTIMATED IN EXCESS OF 200 MPH. THE PATH WIDTH WAS 
            ESTIMATED AT THREE QUARTERS OF A MILE WIDE.


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References

•  This article incorporates public domain material from National Weather Service Instruction 10-517 (PDF). National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Retrieved 2012-02-07.