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Hurricanes and Coastal Storm Websites

 Current Storm Tracks:

News Releases

USGS Hurricane and Extreme Storm Impact Studies
http://coastal.er.usgs.gov/hurricanes/index.html

USGS Maps Coastal Vulnerabilities to Storms
http://coastal.er.usgs.gov/hurricanes/mappingchange/

WaterWatch
http://water.usgs.gov/waterwatch/

USGS Real-Time Streamflow Information for U.S. (see current flooding!)
http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/rt

Current Atlantic Tropical Cyclones 2003:  Isabel Linda.  Links to http://www.hawaii.edu/news/localweather/atl.latest.gif.  Details at http://www.solar.ifa.hawaii.edu/Tropical/tropical.html.
Current Tropical Storm Tracks: courtesy Dr. T. Metcalf, Univ. of Hawaii
 

USGS Real-Time Streamflow Information for Individual States
http://(two letter state abbreviation).water.usgs.gov for an active example:
South Carolina -- http://sc.water.usgs.gov
North Carolina -- http://nc.water.usgs.gov
Virginia -- http://va.water.usgs.gov
Maryland, Delaware, and Washington, D.C. -- http://dc.water.usgs.gov
Pennsylvania -- http://pa.water.usgs.gov
New Jersey -- http://nj.water.usgs.gov
New York -- http://ny.water.usgs.gov

USGS Landslide Information
http://landslides.usgs.gov/

USGS Water Quality Information
http://water.usgs.gov/owq/

Chesapeake Bay and potential impacts of Isabel
http://chesapeake.usgs.gov/

NOAA (These links leave the USGS website.)
National Weather Service -- http://www.nws.noaa.gov/
National Hurricane Center - http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/
nowCOAST - http://nowcoast.noaa.gov/

Reports and other information

USGS 1999 Hurricanes Website:
http://www.usgs.gov/hurricanes/

USGS: Two Months of Flooding in Eastern North Carolina, September - October 1999: Hydrologic Water-Quality, and Geologic Effects of Hurricanes Dennis, Floyd, and Irene
http://water.usgs.gov/pubs/wri/wri004093/

USGS Assessment of Coastal Vulnerability to Sea-Level Rise: Preliminary Results for the U.S. Gulf of Mexico Coast
http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/epubs/openfiles/ofr00-179/index.html

Coasts in Crisis - Corals, Wetlands, and Hurricanes
http://coastal.er.usgs.gov/education/crisis

Natural Disasters - Forecasting Hurricane Occurrence, Economic and Life Losses
http://coastal.er.usgs.gov/hurricane_forecast/index.html

Coastal Zone Hydrodynamic Modeling of Storm Surge, Flooding, Drying, and Horizontal Currents Caused by Hurricanes and Nor’easters
http://coastal.er.usgs.gov/barton/coupled/

Information about storms

USGS Hurricane Floyd Information:
http://www.usgs.gov/hurricanes/hurricane-floyd.html
http://water.usgs.gov/pubs/wri/wri004093/

USGS Hurricane Fran Information:
http://water.usgs.gov/pubs/ofr/ofr96-499/
http://coastal.er.usgs.gov/hurricanes/fran/


Hurricanes from previous years
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