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Storm tracks data
Description
Tropical cyclone tracks through the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico from 1995 to 2005. Only "named" storms, those which reached tropical storm status or stronger, are included.
Usage
storms
Format
- name
Storm Name
- year,month,day
Date of report
- hour
Hour of report (0, 6, 12 or 18, in UTC)
- lat,long
Location of storm center
- pressure
Air pressure at the storm's center (in millibars)
- wind
wtorm's maximum sustained wind speed (in knots)
- type
Storm classification (Tropical Depression, Tropical Storm, Hurricane, or Extratropical)
- seasday
Day of the hurricane season (days since June 1)
Details
The data originated from the National Hurricane Center's archive of Tropical Cyclone Reports (http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/). This dataset was hand-scraped from best track tables in the individual tropical cyclone reports (PDF, HTML and Microsoft Word) by Jon Hobbs.
The Tropical Cyclone Reports had a variety of storm type designations and there appeared to be no consistent naming convention for cyclones that were not hurricanes, tropical depressions, or tropical storms. Many of these designations have been combined into the "Extratropical" category in this dataset.
Author(s)
Jon Hobbs