U.S. State Climate Extremes Committee

What does the SCEC track?

There are certain general climatological elements which the SCEC tracks for every state.  In addition, an individual state may wish the SCEC to evaluate the statewide record of a specific climatological variable.  Here is what we track for all states.

This table does not include several elements that are tracked by the National Climate Extremes Committee (e.g., maximum wind gust, largest and heaviest hail, and highest and lowest pressure).  Additional values that are not currently considered by the SCEC may be considered in the future.  Non-tracked values that have been evaluated for an individual state on a case–by–case basis are available for review.

For meteorological elements that are not tracked by the SCEC for record status, the NCDC archives remain the official source for querying state meteorological records. The SCEC does not evaluate the validity of such data, and it should be noted that the official certification given to data held by the NCDC is only a certification that a copy of the data resides in the NCDC archives. It does not certify the correctness of the data that has been obtained from the NCDC; such determinations are left to the user of the data.

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