What's New at the Tropical Prediction Center (Text)
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 (Arlene)
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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Last updated July 22, 1999