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000 WONT41 KNHC 172024 DSAAT SPECIAL TROPICAL DISTURBANCE STATEMENT NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 425 PM EST THU NOV 17 2005 SATELLITE IMAGERY AND REPORTS FROM AN AIR FORCE RESERVE HURRICANE HUNTER AIRCRAFT INDICATE THAT THE LARGE LOW PRESSURE AREA NEAR THE EAST COAST OF NICARAGUA HAS NOT DEVELOPED INTO A TROPICAL DEPRESSION. WHILE THE AIRCRAFT REPORTED A CENTRAL PRESSURE OF 1003 MB IN THE LOW...SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOWS THAT THE ASSOCIATED SHOWER ACTIVITY HAS DECREASED SIGNIFICANTLY IN BOTH COVERAGE AND ORGANIZATION DURING THE PAST SEVERAL HOURS. THE AIRCRAFT ALSO INVESTIGATED THE REMNANTS OF TROPICAL DEPRESSION TWENTY-SEVEN TO THE...

Atlantic SPECIAL TROPICAL DISTURBANCE STATEMENT SPECIAL TROPICAL DISTURBANCE STATEMENT NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL -- 800 PM EST SUN NOV 13 2005 SATELLITE IMAGERY... RADAR DATA... AND SURFACE OBSERVATIONS INDICATE THE LARGE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM CENTERED OVER THE SOUTHEASTERN CARIBBEAN SEA ABOUT 85 MILES WEST-SOUTHWEST OF ST. LUCIA HAS BECOME BETTER ORGANIZED THIS EVENING. THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY HAS INCREASED NEAR AND JUST TO THE EAST OF THE CENTER... AND ST. LUCIA REPORTED A SUSTAINED WIND OF 33 MPH DURING THE PAST HOUR. UPPER-LEVEL WINDS ARE ALSO GRADUALLY BECOMING A LITTLE MORE FAVORABLE. IF THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP CLOSER TO THE...

000 WTNT31 KNHC 290617 TCPAT1 BULLETIN HURRICANE BETA INTERMEDIATE ADVISORY NUMBER 9A...CORRECTED NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 2 AM EDT SAT OCT 29 2005  CORRECTED TO INCLUDE EXTENT OF HURRICANE-FORCE WINDS  ...SLOW-MOVING BETA REACHES HURRICANE STRENGTH... ...CONTINUES TO LASH THE ISLAND OF PROVIDENCIA WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND TORRENTIAL RAINFALL...  A HURRICANE WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR THE EASTERN COAST OF NICARAGUA FROM BLUEFIELDS NORTHWARD TO CABO GRACIAS A DIOS NEAR THE NICARAGUA/HONDURAS BORDER...AND ADJACENT ISLANDS. A HURRICANE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE ISLAND OF PROVIDENCIA.  A TROPICAL STORM WARNING AND A HURRICANE WATCH REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR...

000 WTNT34 KNHC 170826 TCPAT4 BULLETIN TROPICAL STORM WILMA ADVISORY NUMBER 7 NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 5 AM EDT MON OCT 17 2005 ...TROPICAL STORM WILMA BECOMES THE 21ST NAMED STORM OF THE 2005 ATLANTIC SEASON OVER THE NORTHWESTERN CARIBBEAN SEA... ...TIES THE RECORD FOR NAMED STORMS SET BACK IN 1933... A TROPICAL STORM WARNING AND A HURRICANE WATCH REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR THE CAYMAN ISLANDS. FOR STORM INFORMATION SPECIFIC TO YOUR AREA...INCLUDING POSSIBLE INLAND WATCHES AND WARNINGS...PLEASE MONITOR PRODUCTS ISSUED BY YOUR LOCAL WEATHER OFFICE. AT 5 AM EDT...0900Z...THE CENTER OF TROPICAL STORM WILMA WAS LOCATED...

They were billed as one of the most important advances in the history of weather forecasting: radars so powerful, they could spot a swarm of insects soaring through a field some 30 miles away.Known as Doppler radars, they were 10 times more sensitive than the vintage radars that had dotted the nation's landscape since the 1950s, and would give forecasters more details than ever about hurricanes making landfall.But the National Weather Service project that came with such high hopes in 1987 was quickly battered by schedule delays, contractor clashes and runaway spending.Congress stepped in, lambasting the Weather Service. Audits and...

As Hurricane Earl rolled toward the Gulf Coast in 1998, forecasters at the National Hurricane Center posted warnings that stretched from the Florida Panhandle to Louisiana -- nearly 900 miles, over two days, on alert.But Earl's hurricane-force winds affected 211 miles total, leaving a 685-mile span of coastline untouched by the strongest winds. That's the distance between Miami and Atlanta.A year later during Hurricane Irene, warnings covered 989 miles but only 440 were hit. Last year during Hurricane Charley, nearly 1,400 miles were warned. Miles struck: 197.In all, hundreds of thousands of people fled their homes, shuttered their businesses and...

The clues to help forecasters figure out why hurricanes defy them sit untouched inside a dusty storage room off Miami's Rickenbacker Causeway.Here, at the government's Hurricane Research Division, the life spans of dozens of storms are documented on nine-track tapes stacked floor to ceiling, wall to wall, from Claudette to Fabian to Irene to Andrew.There are trillions of bytes of data. But the division's 16 remaining researchers don't have time to study them.While the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has been warning the nation about the rise in dangerous hurricanes, the agency has denied requests from its hurricane researchers for...

MIAMI - While hurricanes relentlessly pound America's coastlines, breakdowns in crucial weather-observing equipment are thwarting forecasters at the National Hurricane Center - the nation's first line of defense against tropical weather - as they struggle to get a fix on the deadly storms, a Miami Herald investigation found. Buoys, weather balloons, radars, ground sensors and hurricane hunter planes, all part of a multibillion-dollar weather-tracking system run by the federal government, have failed forecasters during nearly half of the 45 hurricanes that struck land since 1992."It's almost like we're forecasting blind," said Pablo Santos, who has pressed for years for more...

000 WTNT32 KNHC 090248 TCPAT2 BULLETIN SUBTROPICAL DEPRESSION TWENTY-TWO ADVISORY NUMBER 3 NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 11 PM EDT SAT OCT 08 2005 ...DEPRESSION DISSIPATING SOUTHEAST OF BERMUDA... SATELLITE IMAGERY INDICATES THAT THE DEPRESSION IS DISSIPATING SOUTHEAST OF BERMUDA. AT 11 PM EST...0300Z...THE BERMUDA WEATHER SERVICE HAS DISCONTINUED THE TROPICAL STORM WATCH FOR BERMUDA. FOR STORM INFORMATION SPECIFIC TO YOUR AREA... PLEASE MONITOR PRODUCTS ISSUED BY YOUR LOCAL WEATHER OFFICE. AT 11 PM EDT...0300Z...THE CENTER OF DISSIPATING SUBTROPICAL DEPRESSION TWENTY-TWO WAS LOCATED NEAR LATITUDE 29.2 NORTH... LONGITUDE 62.6 WEST OR ABOUT 250 MILES... 405 KM... SOUTH-SOUTHEAST OF...

000 WTNT35 KNHC 020854 TCPAT5 BULLETIN TROPICAL STORM STAN ADVISORY NUMBER 4 NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 4 AM CDT SUN OCT 02 2005 ...TROPICAL STORM STAN MAKING LANDFALL ON THE YUCATAN PENINSULA... A TROPICAL STORM WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR THE EASTERN COAST OF THE YUCATAN PENINSULA FROM CHETUMAL NORTHWARD TO CABO CATOCHE. A TROPICAL STORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE NORTHWESTERN COAST OF THE YUCATAN PENINSULA FROM WEST OF CABO CATOCHE WESTWARD TO CAMPECHE. A TROPICAL STORM WATCH MEANS THAT TROPICAL STORM CONDITIONS ARE POSSIBLE WITHIN THE WATCH AREA...GENERALLY WITHIN 36 HOURS. A TROPICAL STORM...

Despite statements to the contrary from the director of the National Hurricane Center, Barbra Streisand is declaring a "global warming emergency." "We are in a global warming emergency state and these storms are going to become more frequent, more intense," the singer, actress and liberal activist told Diane Sawyer of ABC News.

000 WTNT33 KNHC 221735 TCPAT3 BULLETIN HURRICANE RITA INTERMEDIATE ADVISORY NUMBER 20A NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 1 PM CDT THU SEP 22 2005 ...RITA WEAKENS A LITTLE FURTHER...REMAINS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS HURRICANE... A HURRICANE WARNING IS IN EFFECT FROM PORT O'CONNOR TEXAS TO MORGAN CITY LOUISIANA. A HURRICANE WARNING MEANS THAT HURRICANE CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED WITHIN THE WARNING AREA WITHIN THE NEXT 24 HOURS. PREPARATIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY SHOULD BE RUSHED TO COMPLETION. A TROPICAL STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM SOUTH OF PORT O'CONNOR TO PORT MANSFIELD TEXAS AND FOR THE SOUTHEASTERN COAST OF LOUISIANA...

000 WTNT33 KNHC 201736 TCPAT3 BULLETIN HURRICANE RITA SPECIAL ADVISORY NUMBER 12 NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 2 PM EDT TUE SEP 20 2005 ...RITA REACHES 100 MPH WINDS... A HURRICANE WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF THE FLORIDA KEYS...AND FROM SOUTH OF FLORIDA CITY ON THE FLORIDA SOUTHEAST COAST SOUTHWARD TO EAST CAPE SABLE...THEN NORTHWARD TO CHOKOLOSKEE ON THE SOUTHWEST COAST. A HURRICANE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE CUBAN PROVINCES OF MATANZAS...CIUDAD DE HABANA...AND LA HABANA. A TROPICAL STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT ALONG THE FLORIDA WEST COAST NORTH OF CHOKOLOSKEE TO ENGLEWOOD. AT 2 PM...

000 WTNT33 KNHC 201146 TCPAT3 BULLETIN TROPICAL STORM RITA INTERMEDIATE ADVISORY NUMBER 10A NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 8 AM EDT TUE SEP 20 2005 ...RECONNAISSANCE PLANE ABOUT TO REACH RITA...WILL DETERMINE IF IT IS A HURRICANE... A TROPICAL STORM WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR THE NORTHWESTERN BAHAMAS...INCLUDING THE ABACOS...ANDROS ISLAND...BERRY ISLANDS... BIMINI...ELEUTHERA...GRAND BAHAMA ISLAND...AND NEW PROVIDENCE. A HURRICANE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF THE FLORIDA KEYS...AND FROM GOLDEN BEACH ON THE FLORIDA SOUTHEAST COAST SOUTHWARD TO EAST CAPE SABLE...THEN NORTHWARD TO CHOKOLOSKEE ON THE SOUTHWEST COAST. A HURRICANE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE CUBAN PROVINCES...

FEMA knew storm's potential, Mayfield saysSunday, 4:44 p.m. By Mark Schleifstein Staff writer Dr. Max Mayfield, director of the National Hurricane Center, said Sunday that officials with the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Department of Homeland Security, including FEMA Director Mike Brown and Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, listened in on electronic briefings given by his staff in advance of Hurricane Katrina slamming Louisiana and Mississippi and were advised of the storm’s potential deadly effects. NOLA.COM

Katrina now a category 5, still in flux "KATRINA IS EXPECTED TO BE A DEVASTING CATEGORY FOUR OR FIVE HURRICANE AT LANDFALL." That's the special statement from the National Hurricane Center this morning. Here are some more facts from a story I wrote about New Orleans about six months after Tropical Storm Allison struck Houston: It's been 36 years since Hurricane Betsy buried New Orleans 8 feet deep. Since then a deteriorating ecosystem and increased development have left the city in an ever more precarious position. Yet the problem went unaddressed for decades by a laissez-faire government, experts said. "To...

HURRICANE IVAN ADVISORY NUMBER 30 NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 5 PM AST THU SEP 09 2004 ...HURRICANE IVAN HEADING FOR JAMAICA AND THE CAYMAN ISLANDS... A HURRICANE WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR JAMAICA. AT 5 PM...2100Z...THE GOVERNMENT OF THE CAYMAN ISLANDS HAS ISSUED A HURRICANE WARNING FOR THE CAYMAN ISLANDS. A HURRICANE WATCH AND A TROPICAL STORM WARNING REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR THE ENTIRE SOUTHWEST PENINSULA OF HAITI FROM THE BORDER OF THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC WESTWARD...INCLUDING PORT AU PRINCE. A HURRICANE WATCH AND A TROPICAL STORM WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC FROM BARAHONA TO PERDENALES....

ZCZC MIATCPAT4 ALL TTAA00 KNHC DDHHMM BULLETIN HURRICANE IVAN ADVISORY NUMBER 25 NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 11 AM AST WED SEP 08 2004 ...Dangerous Hurricane Ivan heading for the central Caribbean Sea... A hurricane warning remains in effect for Aruba...Bonaire...and Curacao. A hurricane watch and a Tropical Storm Warning remain in effect for The Guarjira Peninsula of Columbia...and for the entire Northern Coast of Venezuela. At 11 AM AST...1500z...the Government of Haiti has issued a Hurricane Watch for the entire Southwest peninsula of Haiti from the border of the Dominican Republic Westward...including Port Au Prince. A Tropical Storm...

TROPICAL DEPRESSION TWO DISCUSSION NUMBER 1 NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 5 PM EDT SUN AUG 04 2002 VISIBLE SATELLITE IMAGERY AND RADAR SHOW SHOW A WELL DEFINED CIRCULATION PATTERN ASSOCIATED WITH THE SYSTEM IN THE NORTH-CENTRAL GULF OF MEXICO...ENOUGH TO IDENTIFY THE SYSTEM AS A TROPICAL DEPRESSION. SURFACE DATA SUGGESTS THAT THE SURFACE CENTER IS DISPLACED SOUTH OR SOUTHWEST OF THE CLOUD AND RADAR MID-LEVEL CENTER AND THERE IS SOME UNCERTAINTY OF THE EXACT LOCATION. THE INITIAL MOTION IS ESTIMATED AT 360/5. THE TRACK GUIDANCE INDICATES A TURN TOWARD THE WEST AS THE DEPRESSION RUNS INTO A STRONG RIDGE...