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This page deals with hurricanes, including links to weather updates from the National Hurricane Center and Weather Service, media coverage, hurricane history, Poynter Online articles, and more. -
Weather Updates
National Hurricane Center http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/index.shtml National Weather Service http://www.nws.noaa.gov/ Weather Underground http://www.wunderground.com AccuWeather http://accuweather.com Emergency Email Network http://www.emergencyemail.org/ newsemergency/situationpagenews.asp?sit=27 Stormpulse http://www.stormpulse.com/ The Weather Channel http://www.weather.com/
Storm Tools for Journalists (Al Tompkins) http://stormtools.ning.com/
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Media Coverage TV Station Links from NewsDirectory.comhttp://www.newsdirectory.com/tv.php?network=&nn= State Examples: Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Texas, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, DC, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, New YorkNewspaper Links from NAA's NewsVoyagerhttp://www.newspaperlinks.com/voyager.cfm State Examples: Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Texas, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, DC, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, New YorkMore Examples: Google News Search ("hurricane") http://news.google.com IbisEye.com ( Sarasota Herald-Tribune) http://ibiseye.com/ Tampabay.com ( St. Pete Times Hurricane Guide) http://www.tampabay.com/ Tampa Bay Online ( Tampa Tribune) http://www.tbo.com/ The Florida Times-Unionhttp://jacksonville.com/weather/hurricane/ Ocala Star-Bannerhttp://www.ocala.com/ Orlando Sentinelhttp://www.orlandosentinel.com/ The Ledger (Lakeland) http://www.theledger.com/a pps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=NEWS16 The News-Press (Fort Myers) http://www.news-press.com Naples Daily Newshttp://www.naplesnews.com/ Florida Todayhttp://www.floridatoday.com Palm Beach Posthttp://www.palmbeachpost.com/storm/content/storm/ Sun Sentinelhttp://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/weather/hurricane/ Miami Heraldhttp://www.miamiherald.com/storm/ Keynoter.com http://www.keynoter.com Key West Citizen http://www.keysnews.com/stormcentral/ -
Additional Sources
How Hurricanes Work http://www.howstuffworks.com/hurricane.htm U.S. Census: Facts for Features: Hurricanes http://www.census.gov/ Hurricane Information (Red Cross) http://www.redcross.org/ services/disaster/keepsafe/readyhurricane.html Hurricanecity http://www.hurricanecity.com/ Resources for Hurricanes (IRE) http://ire.org/inthenews_archive/hurricane.html Tropical Storms, Worldwide http://www.solar.ifa.hawaii.edu/Tropical/ WeatherMatrix http://www.weathermatrix.net/ Hurricane (FEMA) http://www.fema.gov/hazard/hurricane Hurricanes (NOAA) http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ Portable Generator Hazards Guide (U.S. Consumer Product Saftety Commission) http://www.cpsc.gov/CPSCPUB/PUBS/portgen.pdf Hurricane Center (AccuWeather.com) http://hurricane.accuweather.com/hurricane Hurricane/Tropical Data (Unisys) http://weather.unisys.com/hurricane/index.html Hurricane and Extreme Storm Impact Studies (USGS) http://coastal.er.usgs.gov/hurricanes/ Climate Prediction Center http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/ Tropical Meteorology Project (Colorado State) http://tropical.atmos.colostate.edu/ NASA's Earth Observatory -- Severe Storms http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/ NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?topic=storm Hurricane Hunters http://www.hurricanehunters.com/ Atlantic Tropical Weather Center http://www.atwc.org/ Atlantic Hurricane Track Maps (Johns Hopkins University) http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/hurr/index.html FEMA for Kids: Hurricanes http://www.fema.gov/kids/hurr.htm Hurricanetrack.com http://www.hurricanetrack.com/ International Hurricane Research Center http://www.ihrc.fiu.edu/ FloridaDisaster.org http://www.floridadisaster.org/ Hurricane Digital Memory Bank http://www.hurricanearchive.org/
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History
NHC/TPC Archive of Past Hurricane Seasons http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pastall.shtml Historical Hurricane Tracks http://maps.csc.noaa.gov/hurricanes/ Hurricane History (NOAA) http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/HAW2/english/history.shtml Historic Hurricane Photos (Florida Memory Project) http://www.floridamemory.com/ PhotographicCollection/photo_exhibits 2006 Pulitzer Prizes for Public Service (The Times-Picayune and The Sun Herald) http://www.pulitzer.org/year/2006/public-service/works/ The Times-Picayune (Katrina 2005) http://www.nola.com/t-p/ The Sun Herald (Katrina 2005) http://www.sunherald.com/ Hurricane Katrina 2005 (Wikipedia) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina Hurricane Katrina & Rita Web Archive (Internet Archive) http://websearch.archive.org/katrina/ Hurricane Rita 2005 (Wikipedia) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Rita Hurricane Season 1999 (Washington Post) http://www.washingtonpost.com/ wp-srv/national/longterm/hurricane/keystories.htm Blogging Bonnie 1998 (Chip Scanlan, September 18, 2003) http://poynter.org/column.asp?id=52&aid=48413 Hurricane Andrew 1992 (NOAA) http://www.publicaffairs.noaa.gov/andrew92.html Hurricane Donna 1960 (Wikipedia) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Donna The Hurricane of '38 (PBS: American Experience) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/hurricane38/ Florida's Forgotten Storm: The Hurricane of 1928 (Sun-Sentinel) http://www.sun-sentinel.com/ The Hurricane of 1926 (PBS) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/ miami/peopleevents/pande07.html Images of Florida Hurricanes, Early Twentieth Century (University of Florida Special Collections) http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/ pkyonge/hurricane/hurricanemain.html Galveston Hurricane: 1900 (CNN) http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2000/galveston/ The 1900 Story: Galveston Island, Texas (Galveston Newspapers) http://www.1900storm.com/ -
Poynter Online (2003-2008)
In the Path of the Storm: Hurricanes Gilbert and Dean Al Tompkins, August 20, 2007 Hurricane Tracking: Following the 2007 Season Chip Scanlan, June 6, 2007 Covering Hurricanes (2003-2006) http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=68
Al's Morning Meeting
August 31, 2008 http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=2&aid=149678 August 31, 2008 http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=149720 August 20, 2007 http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=2&aid=128672 August 27, 2006 http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=2&aid=106580 Oct. 24, 2005 http://poynter.org/column.asp?id=2&aid=91064 Oct. 23, 2005 http://poynter.org/column.asp?id=2&aid=91004 Oct. 21, 2005 http://poynter.org/column.asp?id=2&aid=90914 September 21, 2005 http://poynter.org/column.asp?id=2&aid=89318 September 1, 2005 http://poynter.org/column.asp?id=2&aid=88145 August 31, 2005 http://poynter.org/column.asp?id=2&aid=88079 August 30, 2005 http://poynter.org/column.asp?id=2&aid=87986 August 29, 2005 http://poynter.org/column.asp?id=2&aid=87872 August 28, 2005 http://poynter.org/column.asp?id=2&aid=87776 July 10, 2005 http://poynter.org/column.asp?id=2&aid=85082 July 7, 2005 http://poynter.org/column.asp?id=2&aid=84971 September 16, 2004 http://poynter.org/column.asp?id=2&aid=71411 September 14, 2004 http://poynter.org/column.asp?id=2&aid=71330 September 6, 2004 http://poynter.org/column.asp?id=2&aid=70979 September 5, 2004 http://poynter.org/column.asp?id=2&aid=70955 September 2, 2004 http://poynter.org/column.asp?id=2&aid=70943 August 16, 2004 http://poynter.org/column.asp?id=2&aid=69935 August 12, 2004 http://poynter.org/column.asp?id=2&aid=69863 September 18, 2003 http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=2&aid=48227 September 17, 2003 http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=2&aid=48131 September 15, 2003 http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=2&aid=48005 September 12, 2003 http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=2&aid=47729
Other Poynter Articles
Hurricane Katrina: One Year Later Various Authors, September 1, 2006 Covering Katrina: About As Bad As Can Be Bill Mitchell, September 1, 2005 Culture Beyond the Crisis Jill Geisler, September 1, 2005 Media Converge on LSU Campus Jill Geisler, September 1, 2005 Craigslist or Local Media? The Shifting Community Gathering Place Steve Outing, September 1, 2005 Covering Katrina Various Sources, September 1, 2005 Journalism in Recovering Communities: Lessons from Grand Forks Butch Ward, August 31, 2005 Where Are Those High-Tech Miracles Now? Gregory Favre, August 30, 2005 Hurricane Media Links Meghan Martin, August 29, 2005 Leadership: Calm in the Storm Jill Geisler, September 14, 2004 Frances: The Views From Under, and From Afar Steve Outing, September 7, 2004 A Valentine to Local TV News Roy Peter Clark, September 7, 2004 Converging Coverage: When Media Feeds Itself Lou Ferrara, August 27, 2004 Hurricane Aftermath: A Community Network Howard Finberg, August 23, 2004 Radar Love? Anne Conneen, August 17, 2004 Writer's Survival Guide Chip Scanlan, August 16, 2004 Dissecting Disasters Aly Colon, August 16, 2004 After the Storm: What Business Are We In? Scott Libin, August 16, 2004 Punta Gorda Paper Didn't Have Plan But Had A Goal Elizabeth Carr, August 16, 2004 Managing Editor: It Looks Like a War Zone Buddy Martin, Charlotte Sun-Herald Posted on Poynter Online, August 16, 2004 Newspaper Exec: We Will Rebuild Derek Dunn-Rankin, Charlotte Sun-Herald Posted on Poynter Online, August 16, 2004 Hurricane Victims, a.k.a. Amateur Journalists Steve Outing, September 19, 2003 Wireless Hurricane Tracking Jonathan Dube, September 18, 2003 Blogging Bonnie Chip Scanlan, September 18, 2003 Estimate Hurricane Damage Using Census Data Matthew Waite, September 18, 2003 Hurricane Word Watch Upgraded Scott Libin, September 17, 2003 TV News Anchors Prepare for Hurricane Isabel Various Authors, September 17, 2003 Eyeing the Eye: Tips for Crew out in the Field Covering Hurricanes Al Tompkins, September 16, 2003 Q&A with Hurricane Veterans Al Tompkins, September 16, 2003 |
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