Dexter's Historical Reports allow you to specify historical weather data for specific location.
To investigate the weather events for a single day or spanning days or months, you will utilize Dexter's Event Reports or Dexter's Seasonal Reports.
In this section, we'll discuss how to create a Historical Report.
Accessing DexterReports
When you log in to Dexter, Tracker is the default page that displays when the product is launched.
To access Dexter Reports, select the down arrow next the word Tracker in the header. This will provide a list of the other sub-products available. In this case, you will select Reports.
Selecting a Location
DexterReports allows you to search for a location using any of the following:
- Street Address
- Zip Code
- City
- Latitudinal and Longitudinal Coordinate Pair
- Public Land Survey System (PLSS)
You may also select a location by simply selecting the desired location directly on the map​.
If you are unsure about how to select a location, please reference the section Selecting a Location.
Creating a Historical Report
Once you have selected your location, Dexter will locate and display your location on the map.
From this screen, you may select:
- Report Type
- Units
- Date
- Perils
The default report type is Event. To create a Historical Report, select the down arrow under Report Type, then select Historical.
Historical Reports are currently only available for Hail and Straight-Line Wind events.
Dexter Historical Reports for Hail are available for January 1, 2009 - yesterday.
Dexter Historical Reports for Straight-Line Wind are available for June 1, 2015 - yesterday.
You may select one or both perils to create your Historical report. When you select a peril, the peril's background will change color.
Once you have selected the report type, units, date, and all desired perils, simply select GENERATE REPORT.
Let's create a Historical Report for Hail & Straight-Line Wind back to December 1, 2016!
The generated report will provide a peril-specific summary of the weather experienced at the selected location during the selected time period.
You may further investigate a particular peril by selecting the peril name next to SUMMARY.
For Historical Hail Reports, Dexter will display all hail events at the selected location, as well as any hail events within 5 miles of the selected location. Each hail event will include the size of the hailstone, date, and the time of the hail storm.
For Historical Hail events, only hail events with hailstones exceeding 0.25 inches will be included in the report.
For Historical Straight-Line Wind Reports, Dexter will display all wind events at the selected location. Each straight-line wind event will include the wind gust speed, date, and time of the wind event. Dexter will also indicate if the wind event is associated with a tropical storm or hurricane.
For Historical Straight-Line Wind events, only wind gusts exceeding 50 mph will be included in the report.
Exporting your Historical Report into a PDF
To export your event report into a PDF, select the button with the downward pointing arrow, next to the address in the blue box along the top left of your screen.
The Save Dexter PDF box will pop up and allow you to add optional details to your PDF event report.
Once you have edited any desired fields, select DOWNLOAD PDF.
Select DOWNLOAD REPORT to finish and view your report. The PDF report will download locally to your computer.
The PDF version of the Dexter Historical Report provides the same details displayed in the Dexter Reports user interface, but in an easily shareable format.
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