This repository contains the radar rainfall nowcasts for 80 high-intensity rainfall events spread over 5 urban areas (Amsterdam, the Hague, Groningen, Maastricht, and Eindhoven) in the Netherlands. Rainfall events chosen criteria: The high-intensity events were selected for each municipality by using RadarTools (http://radartools.nl). RadarTools can list the rainfall events based on the highest climatological rainfall accumulation at any 1-km2 grid cell within each municipality in the Netherlands since 2008. RadarTools sets different thresholds to select rainfall events of different periods. For example, the selection criteria for 1-h period is that the precipitation sum in any grid cell is above 15 mm. For 24-h period, the threshold is 30 mm. Rainfall is not necessarily continuous during the period. We selected the eight highest 1-h and eight highest 24-h events in each of the 5 municipalities from 2008 to 2021. When selecting the 24-h events, the events that covered the period of the previously selected ...