storms: Storm tracks data
In nasaweather: Collection of datasets from the ASA 2006 data expo

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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.

storms

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)

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.

Jon Hobbs

nasaweather documentation built on May 2, 2019, 8:39 a.m.