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The National Hurricane Center became a tropical cyclone warning center in 1956 and assumed many of the functions it has today by 1965. The National Hurricane Research Project, begun in the 1950s, used aircraft to study tropical cyclones and carry out experiments on mature hurricanes through its Stormfury project. Forecasts within the hurricane ...
The National Hurricane Research Project, begun in the 1950s, used aircraft to study tropical cyclones and carry out experiments on mature hurricanes through its Project Stormfury. [9] On July 1, 1956, a National Hurricane Information Center was established in Miami, Florida, which became a warehouse for all hurricane-related information from ...
W. S. Nelms. 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). He was the co-developer of the Saffir–Simpson Hurricane ...
The final storm being tracked by the hurricane center is Tropical Storm Kirk, which formed Monday morning in the eastern Atlantic Ocean. The hurricane center said Monday morning that a "general ...
Hurricane Isaac formed Friday morning almost 1,000 miles from Bermuda, the National Hurricane Center said. It's the sixth hurricane of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season, but for people in the U.S ...
Helene made landfall in Florida just after 11 p.m. Eastern Time, according to the National Hurricane Center. The storm had maximum sustained winds of 140 miles per hour at the time.
Project Stormfury was an attempt to weaken tropical cyclones by flying aircraft into them and seeding them with silver iodide. The project was run by the United States Government from 1962 to 1983. The hypothesis was that the silver iodide would cause supercooled water in the storm to freeze, disrupting the inner structure of the hurricane, and ...
This GOES-16 GeoColor satellite image taken at 5:51 p.m. EDT, provided by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), shows Hurricane Helene in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday, Sept. 25.