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The National Hurricane Center (NHC) is the division of the United States' NOAA/National Weather Service responsible for tracking and predicting tropical weather systems between the Prime Meridian and the 140th meridian west poleward to the 30th parallel north in the northeast Pacific Ocean and the 31st parallel north in the northern Atlantic Ocean.
Bill Proenza was born in New York, and raised in Florida. He graduated from Florida State University.He joined the National Hurricane Center in 1963 and 1964, becoming a reconnaissance meteorologist from 1965 through 1967. [4]
Robert H. Simpson [1] (November 19, 1912 – December 18, 2014) was an American meteorologist, hurricane specialist, first director of the National Hurricane Research Project (NHRP) from 1955 to 1959, and a former director (1967–1974) of the National Hurricane Center (NHC).
National Hurricane Center (1987–2020) Lixion A. Avila (born November 25, 1950) is a retired weather forecaster , formerly working at the National Hurricane Center (NHC). He was a hurricane specialist and senior hurricane specialist from 1987 to 2020.
Kenneth Graham is an American meteorologist and the director of the National Weather Service. [1] Graham previously was the director of the National Hurricane Center from 2018 to 2022. Prior to that, he was the lead meteorologist for the National Weather Service office in New Orleans / Baton Rouge.
In 2007, Franklin, along with twenty-two other staff members, signed a letter to remove its current director, William Proenza, stating “The effective functioning of the National Hurricane Center is at stake.”. [19] The staff were critical of Proenza's unscientific claim over the impact of a weather satellite on forecasting performance. [20]
Christopher William "Chris" Landsea is an American meteorologist, formerly a research meteorologist with the Hurricane Research Division of the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory at NOAA, and now the Science and Operations Officer at the National Hurricane Center.
director (National Hurricane Center, 2008–2012), acting director (National Hurricane Center, 2007–2008) William L. Read (born 1949 or 1950) is an American meteorologist who served in the United States Navy , the National Weather Service (NWS), and as consultant for television stations such as KPRC-TV during his career.