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The following links will help you track hurricanes during the
current hurricane season, starting June 1. These sites are provided for
information only and do not mean that the district endorses these sites in
any way. Updated for 2006.
NOAA Hurricane Page
http://hurricanes.noaa.gov
Hurricane season
begins June 1. Find all the information
you need at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
(NOAA) website.
National Hurricane
Center
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/
Mission of the National Hurricane
Center: To save lives, mitigate property loss, and
improve economic efficiency by issuing watches, warnings, forecasts, and
analyses of hazardous tropical weather.
This site contains all the latest information from the Atlantic Ocean to the Gulf of
Mexico – maps, projections, and everything you’d want to know if
a hurricane was headed your way.
S.C.
Emergency Management Division
http://www.scemd.org
SCEMD is
responsible for the development, coordination, and maintenance of plans for natural
and technological hazards, state emergency operations, state radiological
operations and the training of emergency planners and response personnel at
the state and county levels.
The Weather Channel: Tropical Update
http://www.weather.com/newscenter/tropical/stormdetails.html
Storm information and maps – all season long.
Includes preparation tips and other information essential to
understanding and surviving hurricanes.
CNN Weather
http://www.cnn.com/WEATHER/
CNN gives you the Hurricane Tip Center, storm warning emails, 70 years
of deadly Carolina hurricanes, and more – including a 3-D view of a
hurricane.
Live Cams Along the Coast
Harbourtown
Cam: Hilton Head, SC
Surfside Beach, SC
Myrtle Beach, SC
As hurricanes approach or hit the South
Carolina coast, you can track the changes in the
weather conditions at these sites.
Other Interesting Hurricane
Sites
National
Weather Service
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/
NWS: Hurricane Awareness
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/hurricane/index.shtml
US Hurricanes (by category)
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/paststate.html
US
Hurricanes (maps by landfall)
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ol/climate/severeweather/hurricanes.html
ThinkQuest: What is
a Hurricane:
http://library.thinkquest.org/12151/hurricanes.html
North
Carolina Hit by FRANtastic Storm: Hurricane Fran:
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ol/reports/fran/fran.html#INTRO
USA
Today: Hurricane History:
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/huricane/whhistry.htm
NOAA: Hurricane
Basics, Names, Saffir-Simpson Scale, Tracking Charts, More:
http://www.education.noaa.gov/cweather.html
NOAA: Texas Hurricane
History:
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/FTPROOT/lch/txhur.htm
NOAA: Louisiana Hurricane
History:
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/FTPROOT/lch/lahur.htm#late20th
USA
Today: 1938 New
England Hurricane:
http://usatoday.com/weather/wh1938.htm
UNC Press: History
of Northeastern North Carolina Storms:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~nchyde/HURICANE.HTM
Unisys: Atlantic Tropical Storm
Tracking by Year: http://weather.unisys.com/hurricane/atlantic/index.html
Clemson University: High Winds Project:
http://www.clemson.edu/special/hugo
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