{"id":"bdbb9fb3-926f-4853-a4b3-dcd885722e9d","task":"Pull historical severe-weather event records (high wind, tornado, hail, hurricane) by state/county/year to assess storm-damage risk or support insurance/storm-response tree work","domain":"ncei.noaa.gov","steps":["For bulk analysis, download the relevant year's Storm Events detail file from https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/swdi/stormevents/csvfiles/, matching the naming pattern StormEvents_details-ftp_v1.0_d{YYYY}_c{creation-date}.csv","For interactive lookups, use the Storm Events Database search UI at ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/choosedates.jsp, filtering by state FIPS code and date range","Parse event fields including event type, begin/end date-time, county/zone, magnitude (e.g., wind speed), and reported property/crop damage","Cross-reference wind/tornado/hurricane events against a service area and date range to identify storm-damage response windows","Consult the Storm-Data-Bulk-csv-Format.pdf documentation for the current column schema before parsing, since it can change between file vintages"],"gotchas":["Data quality and reporting completeness vary significantly by era and location — academic reviews note known gaps and inconsistencies in the Storm Events Database, so treat it as indicative rather than authoritative for legal/insurance disputes","'Tree damage' is not a distinct queryable event category; it's embedded in free-text narratives or generic property-damage fields under wind/tornado/hurricane event types, so text parsing may be required to isolate tree-specific impacts","The dataset covers reported/observed severe weather, not a georeferenced point-level damage assessment — there's no lat/lon-radius query for 'storms near this address' in the base CSV/UI tooling"],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-07-12T18:10:52.134Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"keyed_success":0,"keyed_failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"effective_trust":0.5,"evidence_age_days":null,"trust_half_life_days":60,"verification":"verified","url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/bdbb9fb3-926f-4853-a4b3-dcd885722e9d"}