January 14, 2000

1998 Forecast Verification Report added to Past Seasons page.

November 5, 1999

Automated current season storm archive added to homepage.

August 27, 1999

New homepage graphics.

August 10, 1999

Updated 1999 Atlantic Hurricane Outlook and NOAA press release added.

July 27, 1999

Keyword searching of both the NHC and NCEP websites has been added to the homepage. Advanced searching with Exact, Fuzzy, Metaphone, and Soundex search methods is also available.

July 22, 1999

The first 1999 East Pacific preliminary report (Adrian) is now available on the East Pacific 1999 Page.

July 20, 1999

The first 1999 Atlantic preliminary report (Arlene) is now available on the Atlantic 1999 Page.

May 1, 1999

All of the 1998 Atlantic preliminary reports are now available on the Atlantic 1998 Page.

March 15, 1999

Members of the National Hurricane Center's staff are touring destinations in Central America and the Caribbean. Follow their travels on the 1999 Hurricane Awareness Tour pages, where we will provide you with press releases and images.

August 7, 1998

We've compiled historical hurricane records to show what a "typical" hurricane season looks like. The figures and tables on our Climatology page show the average cumulative number of storms throughout the season.

March 31, 1998

We've overhauled the structure and look of our website to help you find your favorite weather products.

March 17, 1998

A 1997 Atlantic hurricane season track map and a page on TPC hurricane forecast models.

January 8, 1998

Finished adding the preliminary reports for the 1997 Atlantic and Eastern Pacific hurricane seasons.

November 13, 1997

New preliminary reports for the 1997 Atlantic and Eastern Pacific hurricane seasons.

October 31, 1997

Notice the new graphic at the top of the page? Also, we've added more preliminary reports for the 1997 hurricane season, updated the radiofax schedule, and updated the personnel page. There are also new products on the Other Products page.

October 15, 1997

New pages for the 1997 Atlantic and Eastern Pacific hurricane seasons, as well a few of the preliminary reports for the individual storms.

July 1, 1997

A new home page, new text home page, new TAFB home page, revised Weather links and National Weather Service links pages, and a new page on a inland hurricane winds model. We've also found a new source of Gulf Stream and sea surface temperature data courtesy of the Naval Atlantic Meteorology and Oceanography Center in Norfolk, VA.

May 1, 1997

We've updated the pages for the 1995 and 1996 Atlantic and Pacific hurricane seasons with client-side image maps. Lynx users don't worry, as we've also added appropriate text pages where needed. Also, the track maps images on those pages (as well as others around the site) are now smaller and hopefully more user friendly. We've replaced the costliest, deadliest, and most intense hurricane image graphics with new tables (originally courtesy of Timothy Reece at the NWS Brownsville, TX. We've also added new tables on on U.S. hurricane strikes by decade and by state. Last, but certainly not least, we've add a report on deadliest hurricanes of the Atlantic from 1492 to the present day.

March 17, 1997

We've added new images for the preliminary reports for Tropical Storm Gabrielle and Hurricane Noel. We've also (hopefully) killed a few more bugs in our site!

March 12, 1997

We've finished adding the preliminary reports for the 1995 and 1996 hurricane seasons, including brief information on the tropical depressions. We've also added internal links to make it easier to navigate through the reports. We've updated the TPC radiofax schedule and the world-wide tropical cyclone name lists. We've also added new images to the Hurricane Andrew and Hurricane Hugo pages. Finally, we've updated the TPC Links page and the TPC National Weather Service Links page.

January 28, 1997

We've added many more preliminary reports for the 1995 and 1996 hurricane seasons. We've also split the 1996 season page into Atlantic and Eastern Pacific pages. We've also added a new OFAGX area of responsibility GIF (119K), and updated many pages to add graphics, correct mistakes, and correct sloppy HTML code.

November 27, 1996

We've added several more new preliminary reports for the 1995 and 1996 Hurricane Seasons. In addition, we now have two meteorological links pages with one dedicated to National Weather Service sites. We also have a publications page detailing additions sources of TPC information. We've added lots of links to our introductory pages. Finally, we've cleared up a lot of little glitches in our site.

November 6, 1996

We've made many updates to the preliminary reports of the 1995 Atlantic Hurricane Season (Image Page, Text Page). Additionally, we've added new reports for the 1996 Atlantic and East Pacific Hurricane Seasons, and for the 1995 East Pacific Hurricane Season. We've also updated the glossary of NHC terms.

June 1, 1996

Brand new web page for the 1996 season.

July 4, 1996

We have added a page with numerous Hurricane and Natural Disater brochures by NOAA, the American Red Cross and FEMA.

July 4, 1996

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