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Card# TpHit.Hit.Hit. | Card# TpHit.Hit.Hit. | ||
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*Card# = Sequential card number starting at 00005 in 1851 | *Card# = Sequential card number starting at 00005 in 1851 | ||
*MM/DD/Year = Month, Day, and Year of storm | *MM/DD/Year = Month, Day, and Year of storm | ||
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*'0' = Used to indicate U.S. tropical storm landfall, but this has not been utilized in recent years | *'0' = Used to indicate U.S. tropical storm landfall, but this has not been utilized in recent years | ||
*'1' to '5' = Highest Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale impact in the United States based upon extimated maximum sustained surface winds produced at the coast. See scale below. | *'1' to '5' = Highest Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale impact in the United States based upon extimated maximum sustained surface winds produced at the coast. See scale below. | ||
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===Daily Data=== | |||
*Card# = As above. | |||
*MM/DD = Month and Day | |||
*Positions and intensities are at 00Z, 06Z, 12Z, 18Z | |||
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*& = | |||
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*'*' (tropical cyclone stage), | |||
*'S' (Subtropical stage) | |||
*'E' (extratropical stage) | |||
*'W' (wave stage - rarely used) | |||
*'L' (remanent Low stage - rarely used) | |||
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*Lat = Latitude of storm: 24.5N | |||
*Long = Longitude of storm: 61.0W | |||
*Wind = Maximum sustained (1 minute) surface (10m) windspeed in knots (these are to the nearest 10 knots for 1851 to 1885 and to the nearest 5 kt for 1886 onward). | |||
*Press = Central surface pressure of storm in mb (if available). Since 1979, central pressures are given everytime even if a satellite estimation is needed. | |||
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Revision as of 18:28, 6 March 2014
The North Atlantic hurricane database, or HURDAT, is the database for all tropical cyclones in the Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea. SMS is able to read a HURDAT file.
File Format
HEADER
92620 08/16/1992 M=13 2 SNBR= 899 ANDREW XING=1 SSS=4 Card# MM/DD/Year Days S# Total#... Name........US Hit.Hi US category
DAILY DATA
92580 04/22S2450610 30 1003S2490615 45 1002S2520620 45 1002S2550624 45 1003* Card# MM/DD&LatLongWindPress&LatLongWindPress&LatLongWindPress&LatLongWindPress
TRAILER
92760 HRCFL4BFL3 LA3 Card# TpHit.Hit.Hit.
Header
- Card# = Sequential card number starting at 00005 in 1851
- MM/DD/Year = Month, Day, and Year of storm
- Days = Number of days in which positions are available (note that this also means number of lines to follow of Daily Data and then the one line of the *Trailer)
- S# = Storm number for that particular year (including subtropical storms)
- Total# = Storm number since the beginning of the record (since 1851)
- Name = Storms only given official names since 1950
- US Hit =
- '1' = Made landfall (i.e., the center of the cyclone crossed the coast) on the continental United States as a tropical storm or hurricane,
- '0' = did not make a U.S. landfall
- Hi US category =
- '0' = Used to indicate U.S. tropical storm landfall, but this has not been utilized in recent years
- '1' to '5' = Highest Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale impact in the United States based upon extimated maximum sustained surface winds produced at the coast. See scale below.
Daily Data
- Card# = As above.
- MM/DD = Month and Day
- Positions and intensities are at 00Z, 06Z, 12Z, 18Z
- & =
- '*' (tropical cyclone stage),
- 'S' (Subtropical stage)
- 'E' (extratropical stage)
- 'W' (wave stage - rarely used)
- 'L' (remanent Low stage - rarely used)
- Lat = Latitude of storm: 24.5N
- Long = Longitude of storm: 61.0W
- Wind = Maximum sustained (1 minute) surface (10m) windspeed in knots (these are to the nearest 10 knots for 1851 to 1885 and to the nearest 5 kt for 1886 onward).
- Press = Central surface pressure of storm in mb (if available). Since 1979, central pressures are given everytime even if a satellite estimation is needed.
