Historical Rainfall Intensity Data

[Kowycz]

What I am looking for is a database that contains historical rainfall intensity data for a specific location that can be downloaded easily. I have found this (

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/ridge2/RFC_Precip/)

on NOAA's site and it's perfect honestly; you can look up a specific area and then see the "hourly archive" of past rain events viewing an inches/hour shading on a map, and can even download shape files. The problem is it's quite cumbersome to do this for a lot of data (say a half a year or so). I was wondering if I overlooked it on their site (or even this page). I am not seeing a way to download a .txt file or a .csv file of the data, but it's clearly there and they're making it available. I suppose I will try to get in touch with NOAA to see if there is any way to obtain these if no one can point me in the right direction.

 

[Kowycz]

I seem to have found what I was looking for here:

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/search

if anyone would happen to need it in the future. If anyone knows of any other sources I would greatly appreciate them as well.

 

[elev8848]

Also,

http://www.epa.gov/nrmrl/wswrd/wq/models/swc/

If you download the above EPA National Stormwater Calculator software, it can access the available raingauge data for a given geographic location.
Then, you can save that file. It will be in SWMM5 rainfall data in tab separated format like
Gaugename YYYY MM DD HH MM rainvalue


425186 1970 1 10 7 0 0.105
425186 1970 1 10 8 0 0.105
425186 1970 1 10 9 0 0.105
425186 1970 1 10 10 0 0.105
425186 1970 1 14 12 0 0.105
425186 1970 1 14 18 0 0.105
425186 1970 1 14 22 0 0.209

Thanks