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This function gets spatial paths of tornadoes from NOAA's National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center Severe Weather GIS web page.

Usage

tornadoes(...)

Arguments

...

Curl options passed on to crul::verb-GET (optional)

Value

A Spatial object is returned of class SpatialLinesDataFrame.

Note

See torn_cache for managing cached files

References

https://www.spc.noaa.gov/gis/svrgis/

Examples

if (FALSE) {
shp <- tornadoes()
library('sp')
if (interactive()) {
  # may take 10 sec or so to render
  plot(shp)
}
}