The National Geodetic Survey has published Emergency Response Imagery for the damage track from the 2020 tornadoes near the Nashville area.
The data are available as cloud optimized geotiffs on Amazon S3 at s3://noaa-eri-pds/2020_Nashville_Tornado/. The geotiffs can be used in GIS mapping software such as ArcGIS, QGIS, or explored with analysis software such as Python.
The AWS CLI can be used to access this data. No AWS account is necessary.
To list all of the available data:
aws s3 ls s3://noaa-eri-pds/2020_Nashville_Tornado/ --recursive --no-sign-request
To download a single geotiff file:
aws s3 cp s3://noaa-eri-pds/2020_Nashville_Tornado/20200307a_RGB/20200307aC0853600w361200n.tif . --no-sign-request
You can also access this data via HTTPS at https://noaa-eri-pds.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html#2020_Nashville_Tornado/20200307a_RGB/
NOAA provides a web map view of this data available at https://storms.ngs.noaa.gov/storms/nashville/index.html#9/36.1800/-86.2000
There are a few platforms that can directly visualize cloud optimized geotiffs and the virtual rasters:
and
https://cogeo.xyz/mosaic.html?mosaicid=78090264bf9804d89334b8b58c86e3d6f3798b3cf4443f86da37878d
GDAL includes the vsis3 driver which allows you to access data directly off of S3. For example to merge all of the geotiffs into a single one you could execute the follow command, cautioning that this will touch a lot of data and result in a multi gigabyte file:
gdalwarp /vsis3/noaa-eri-pds/2020_Nashville_Tornado/20200307a_RGB/20200307a_COG.vrt mosaic.tif
The imagery since 2005 is available in the noaa-eri-pds bucket.
It can be accessed via the command line or via https. For example to list all of the events from 2019:
aws s3 ls s3://noaa-eri-pds/2019 --no-sign-request
or via HTTPS: https://noaa-eri-pds.s3.amazonaws.com/?delimiter=/&prefix=2019
To see all of the collection dates in an event:
aws s3 ls s3://noaa-eri-pds/2019_Hurricane_Dorian/ --no-sign-request
or via HTTPS: https://noaa-eri-pds.s3.amazonaws.com/?delimiter=/&prefix=2019_Hurricane_Dorian/