When conditions are not quite to levels necessitating a warning or advisory, the National Weather Service has a sort of "catch-all" product called the Special Weather Statement (SPS). This product will be issued for one or more counties / forecast zones and can optionally include a polygon to target a more limited area. The featured map presents the number of such SPS products issued that contained a polygon so far this year. The map shows that a few offices don't issue SPS products with polygons. They are not required with the product. The IEM maintains an text archive of these and offers a shapefile download of the polygons with associated tags found within the text.

Voting:
Good = 12
Bad = 1
Abstain = 1

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