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The National Hurricane Center is responsible for tracking tropical systems in both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, and providing watches and warnings when storms threaten land areas. Its ultimate mission is to save lives and help protect property. The hurricane center is located on the campus of Florida International University in western Miami-Dade County. Jurisdictionally speaking, it falls under the National Weather Service, which comes under the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. NOAA, in turn, answers to the U.S. Department of Commerce. The center has 10 primary tropical meteorologists, who are called hurricane specialists. During the Atlantic hurricane season, f...
The National Hurricane Center is responsible for tracking tropical systems in both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, and providing watches and warnings when storms threaten land areas. Its ultimate mission is to save lives and help protect property. The hurricane center is located on the campus of Florida International University in western Miami-Dade County. Jurisdictionally speaking, it falls under the National Weather Service, which comes under the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. NOAA, in turn, answers to the U.S. Department of Commerce. The center has 10 primary tropical meteorologists, who are called hurricane specialists. During the Atlantic hurricane season, from June 1 through Nov. 30, they write advisories any time a system strengthens into a tropical depression. Once a system develops sustained winds of 39 mph, it is designated a tropical storm and given a name. A tropical storm becomes a hurricane with sustained winds of 74 mph. Advisories, which provide a storm's strength, position and projected track, are written every six hours, released at 5 a.m. and 11 a.m., and at 5 p.m. and 11 p.m. Eastern time. They are provided more often when a storm is approaching land. Hurricane specialists rely heavily on computer models for guidance on how to craft their advisories. The models, in turn, are fed atmospheric information derived from satellites, radar, ocean buoys and reconnaissance aircraft. Historically speaking, tracking tropical storms was originally the responsibility of the National Weather Service in Miami, Florida. As of 1965, the Miami weather office established the National Hurricane Center as part of its internal workings. In 1984, the hurricane center was broken out as its own entity. It had been housed in a building on the University of Miami campus in Coral Gables and later in a building across the street from the university before it moved into its current facility in 1995. In its history, the hurricane center has had nine directors: Gordon Dunn (1965-1967) Robert Simpson (1967-1973) Neil Frank (1973-1987) Bob Sheets (1987-1995) Bob Burpee (1996-1997) Jerry Jarrell (1998-2000) Max Mayfield (2000-2007) Bill Proenza (2007) In 2007, the center experienced internal tumult, shortly after Proenza was installed as director. Proenza angered his superiors when he publicly warned the inevitable demise of a weather satellite would cause hurricane forecasts to suffer. At the same time, he alienated many on his staff, who felt he had undermined public confidence in the center. Despite support from some members of Congress, Proenza was removed from the position after only seven months on the job. He was later returned to his previous job as head of the National Weather Service Southern Region in Fort Worth, Texas. Currently, NOAA is in the process of selecting a new director. Ed Rappaport, the center's deputy director, has been named acting director in the interim.
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Discover Catalina just offshore
"26 Miles (Santa Catalina)," sung by the Four Preps in 1958, helped make Santa Catalina Island a national household name. Many recreational boaters and passengers on the Catalina Flyer will travel the 26 nautical miles from Newport Harbor to Avalon. But...Tags: Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, California), San Diego (San Diego, California), San Pedro, Weather Reports, Meteorological Disasters
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Subtropical storm Beryl picks up speed
Subtropical storm Beryl began moving faster toward an expected landfall Sunday night on the southeastern Atlantic coast, the National Hurricane Center said Sunday. Tropical storm warnings are in effect for the Georgia coastline, parts of South...Tags: Orlando, Natural Disasters, Disasters and Accidents, Weather Warnings, Meteorological Disasters
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Could another Hurricane Andrew surprise us?
If Hurricane Andrew were to threaten South Florida today, residents would get at least 36 hours advance warning — about 16 more than in 1992, thanks to improved tracking and projecting of a storm's forward motion. But officials at the National...
Tags: Palm Beach County, Meteorological Disasters, Bill Johnson, Miami-Dade County, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida)
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Subtropical storm Beryl forms; northeast Florida under tropical storm warning
Sun SentinelThe National Hurricane Center in Miami has issued a tropical storm warning for residents living in Volusia County. Subtropical Storm Beryl, the second named storm of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season, is moving west-southwest toward the southeastern...Tags: Orlando, Natural Disasters, Weather Warnings, Disasters and Accidents, Brevard County
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Subtropical storm Beryl may reach land by Memorial Day
Subtropical storm Beryl is about to rain on the Southeast's Memorial Day parade. A tropical storm warning was in effect along the coasts of Georgia, Florida and South Carolina on Saturday, the National Weather Service announced, as the second named storm...
Tags: Natural Disasters, Disasters and Accidents, Weather Warnings, Meteorological Disasters, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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2012 hurricane guide, from A (Andrew) to Z (Zantac)
The 2012 hurricane season officially begins this week, even though Alberto jumped the starting gun by turning into a tropical storm last week. Florida hasn't gotten hit by a major storm since 2005. Here now, as a public service, my A-to-Z guide to the...Tags: New York City, Meteorological Disasters, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Tropical Storms, Weather
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Bud Weakens to Tropical Storm Off Mexico's Coast
CNNMiami -- Hurricane Bud weakened to a tropical storm as it approached Mexico's southwestern coast on Friday, the National Hurricane Center said. The storm, with maximum sustained winds of 70 mph, could drench the Mexican states of Jalisco, Colima,...Tags: Weather Reports, Meteorological Disasters, Tropical Storms, Weather, CNN (tv network)
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Disturbance off Florida could become Tropical Storm Beryl
Sun SentinelThe tropical disturbance off Florida’s east coast likely will grow into a tropical depression or storm over the weekend and possibly as soon as Friday. As of 3 p.m. on Friday, the National Hurricane Center gave the broad area of low pressure an...Tags: Theodore Roosevelt, Natural Disasters, Disasters and Accidents, Meteorological Disasters, Miami-Dade County
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If Tropical Storm Beryl forms, it will be a rare event
The last time two tropical storms formed before the official June 1 start of hurricane season, Theodore Roosevelt was president and the year was 1908. It appears set to happen again 104 years later, as a disturbance off Florida's east coast was given a...Tags: Theodore Roosevelt, Natural Disasters, Disasters and Accidents, Meteorological Disasters, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida)
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Bud tames to tropical storm off Mexico's Pacific coast
MIAMI (AP) -- Forecasters say the system that was once powerful Hurricane Bud has tamed to a tropical storm as it headed toward a string of laid-back beach resorts and small mountain villages on Mexico's Pacific coast. The National Hurricane Center in...Tags: National Government, Meteorological Disasters, Politics, Tropical Storms, Weather
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Weekend forecast: Fewer storms, more heat
Fire up the backyard barbecue. After a few gray rainy days, largely the result of a tropical disturbance near the state's east coast, South Florida should see fewer storms and more heat over the long holiday weekend, the National Weather Service in Miami...
Tags: Weather Reports, Tropical Storms, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Weather, Memorial Day
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Forecasters predict near-normal Atlantic hurricane season
Conditions in the atmosphere and the ocean favor a near-normal hurricane season in the Atlantic Basin this season, NOAA announced today from Miami at its Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, and home to the Hurricane Research Division....
Tags: Meteorological Disasters, Caribbean Sea, Tropical Storms, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Natural Disasters
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