Historical Hurricane Tracks Tool

This interactive mapping application easily searches and displays global tropical cyclone data. Users are able to query storms by the storm name, geographic region, or latitude/longitude coordinates. Custom queries can track storms of interest and allow for data extraction and download. Searches and displays tropical cyclone track data by ZIP Code, latitude and longitude coordinates, city, state, or geographic region and then displays the selected tracks on a map Displays coastal population data and hurricane strike data for coastal counties from Maine to Texas Provides access to storm reports written by hurricane specialists at the National Hurricane Center. Reports are available for the Atlantic and East-Central Pacific Basins Builds custom Uniform Resource Locator (URL) strings that users can follow from personal websites to the on-line mapping application with specific storm tracks These data were derived from National Hurricane Center HURDAT data (http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pastall.shtml) and International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship (IBTrACS) data (http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/ibtracs/). Metadata for each dataset can be found on their respective websites.