About Hurricane Tracks

Hurricane Tracks turns NOAA's best-track hurricane files into readable pages: one for each storm that stands out in the record, one for each season, one for each coast with eight or more storms on record, and a finder for the storms that passed near any town. The site is run by Avery Richardson. It is independent and has no link with NOAA, the National Hurricane Center or any government agency.

The tracks, winds and pressures are the National Hurricane Center's. The maps, rankings, counts, ACE totals, closest-approach distances and wording are worked out here from those files, as described on how to read the record. When NOAA revises a season, the pages are rebuilt from the new file.

The site covers past storms only. It gives no forecasts and no advice about preparing for storms, insurance or property.

Sources

• NOAA National Hurricane Center, HURDAT2 Atlantic 1851–2025 and Northeast and North Central Pacific 1949–2025, nhc.noaa.gov/data.
• Landsea, C. W. and J. L. Franklin, 2013: Atlantic Hurricane Database Uncertainty and Presentation of a New Database Format. Monthly Weather Review, 141, 3576–3592.
• Natural Earth coastlines, boundaries and populated places (public domain), naturalearthdata.com.

Corrections and questions: support@hurricanetracks.online.