Hurricanes, Typhoons, Cyclones, and Tropical Storms

Every year, the National Weather Service receives an extraordinary number of requests for statistical information on hurricanes and tropical storm systems. Reporters, students, teachers, businesses, and emergency management professionals all have unique needs to gather and understand storm data.

Official National Weather Service Maps of the 1995-2010 Tropical Cyclone Storms in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans with details on the path, intensity, and wind speeds of all named hurricanes and tropical storms.

Remembering hurricanes and the damages they cause are part of the process in gathering the history of hurricanes in the United States. This weather articles answers the question - 'How Long Do People Remember Hurricanes?'

Take a virtual tour of the National Hurricane Center with this interactive experience from the NOAA National Weather Service. This exciting tour explains how hurricane forecasting works and the ways weather from far away locations can cause massive cyclones in the United States and abroad.

The online interactive hurricane tracker takes you on the path of Hugo, Andrew, Camille and more as you see the development from tropical depression, to tropical storm, and finally to hurricane.

Hurricanes, such as Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Andrew, have intensity ratings measured in categories. Use this interactive timeline to show how much damage is caused by different hurricane categories.