National Hurricane Center News

Tropical Storm Chantal May Form in Atlantic This Week

Tropical Storm Chantal strengthened as it moved west across the Atlantic toward the Lesser Antilles, including the islands of Martinique and Saint Lucia, on a track that may take it east of Florida, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. Chantal …

Tropical Storm Barry Lands on Mexico Gulf Coast; Pemex Refinery Unaffected

Tropical Storm Barry made landfall north of Mexico’s major Gulf Coast port of Veracruz on Thursday morning and was heading inland, unleashing rain showers and wind gusts, but installations of state oil monopoly Pemex were unaffected. The storm is likely …

NHC: TS Barbara Nears Mexico’s Southwest Coast; Hurricane Watch Issued

A bulletin from the National Hurricane Center in Miami, issued at 2:00 AM PDT, locates the center of Tropical Storm Barbara, which is approaching the southwest coast of Mexico, as “moving toward the northeast near 5 mph, 7 km/h,” with …

Hurricane Center Working to Improve Storm Surge Forecasts After Wet 2012

Last year’s hurricane season drove home some big lessons, according to the nation’s chief hurricane forecaster: Storm surge and flooding are dangerous and difficult to predict, and sometimes it’s even harder to communicate that sense of urgency to the public. …

‘Sandy’ Officially Retired from List of Atlantic Storm Names

“Sandy has been retired from the official list of Atlantic Basin tropical cyclone names by the World Meteorological Organization’s hurricane committee because of the extreme impacts it caused from Jamaica and Cuba to the Mid-Atlantic United States in October 2012,” …

Hurricane Center Learns Lesson from Sandy; Changes Warnings

Responding to criticism after Superstorm Sandy, the National Hurricane Center says it will change the way it warns people about tropical storms that morph into something else. At the height of Sandy, as the hurricane knocked on the Northeast coast, …

National Hurricane Center Report: Sandy Was 2nd-Costliest Hurricane in U.S.

Superstorm Sandy was the deadliest hurricane in the northeastern U.S. in 40 years and the second-costliest in the nation’s history, according to a report released Tuesday, Feb. 12.The storm’s effects reached far and wide, according to the National Hurricane Center …

Hurricane Center Seeks to Improve Storm Surge Warnings

Friday marks the end of an Atlantic-Caribbean hurricane season where the greatest devastation was caused by water rather than wind, U.S. National Hurricane Center Director Rick Knabb said. Accordingly, the center is ramping up efforts to develop new warnings that …

Weather Channel’s Knabb Named Chief of National Hurricane Center

Richard Knabb, the tropical weather expert at The Weather Channel, will be the next chief of the U.S. government’s hurricane forecasting hub in Florida, federal officials said Friday. The promotion to director of the National Hurricane Center in Miami fulfills …

7-Day Advance Hurricane Forecasts Not Far Away, Says Storm Center Chief

National Hurricane Center Director Bill Read said that science will improve to the point where forecasters can reliably issue forecasts showing where a hurricane will be a week ahead of time. “We’re two to five years from a seven-day forecast,” …