NOAA Website Accesses 150 Years of Hurricane Data

Precht, Bill Bprecht at pbsj.com
Mon Sep 23 17:02:30 EDT 2002


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Website Accesses 150 Years of Hurricane Data

http://ens-news.com/ens/sep2002/2002-09-19-09.asp#anchor7

SILVER SPRING, Maryland - A new Internet based application allows the
search and display of detailed tropical cyclone data and coastal population
trends.

Emergency preparedness managers, meteorologists and the general public can
use the Historical Hurricane Tracks tool to explore more than 150 years of
information about tropical cyclones in the Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico
and the Caribbean Sea.

Searches can be made using criteria such as storm name, U.S. ZIP code, U.S.
state, county, or latitude and longitude. Tropical cyclone activity is
archived as far back as 1851. The site also provides a searchable database
of population changes from 1900 to 2000 for U.S. coastal counties affected
by hurricanes and detailed text reports on the life history and impact of
Atlantic tropical cyclones from 1958 to 2001.

This is the first site developed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA) that provides storm and population data side by side.

"To make informed decisions, emergency managers need to know how many
people live, work and vacation in coastal areas," said Margaret Davidson,
acting assistant administrator for NOAA's National Ocean Service. "Having
simultaneous access to population figures and storm data is a significant
improvement, since the more you know about past tropical cyclones the
better you can prepare for the future."

NOAA National Hurricane Center Director, Max Mayfield, praised the
initiative for bringing together useful information to a wide range of
users, from professional hurricane watchers to retirees planning to move to
the coast.

"Now that the Historical Hurricane Tracks tool is available you have one,
easy to navigate site that can answer many questions about tropical cyclone
history," Mayfield said.

Historical Hurricane Tracks is available at:
http://hurricane.csc.noaa.gov/hurricanes/

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http://ens-news.com/ens/sep2002/2002-09-19-09.asp#anchor7

NOAA CREATES ATLANTIC HURRICANES DATABASE

Emergency preparedness managers, meteorologists and the general public now
have a powerful new instrument to explore more than 150 years of
information about tropical cyclones in the Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico
and the Caribbean Sea.

http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories/s1006.htm

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