1. GIS in Water Resources By Veerender Garg Fall 2004
Hurricane Tracks
A Closer Look
GIS in Water Resources By
Veerender Garg
Fall 2004 a

2. Parts of Hurricane 1. Exhaust Hot air drawn into the atmosphere.
2.  Storm Clouds Spiral in upper atmosphere.
3.  Eye Cool air descends into the 20-mile wide eye, a low pressure calm center of circulation.
4.  Eye Wall  Storm's fiercest winds. Many agree that the most deadly area of a hurricane is the eye wall.
5.  Spiraling Winds In the hurricane's lower realms, air flows in toward the center and whirls upward.

3. What Causes a Hurricanes
How long do Hurricanes last?
How are Hurricanes named?

4. Classification of Hurricanes:
Category One Hurricane:
Wind Speed mph (64-82 kt or km/hr)
Category Two Hurricane:
Wind Speed mph (83-95 kt or km/hr)
Category Three Hurricane:
Wind Speed mph ( kt or km/hr)
Category Four Hurricane:
Wind Speed mph ( kt or km/hr)
Category Five Hurricane:
Wind Speed greater than 155 mph (135 kt or 249 km/hr)

5. Tracking of Hurricanes
Methods used:
Remote Sensing data
Data collected from Hurricane Hunters
Radars
A radar image showing Charley Hurricane 2004

6. My approach using GIS
I have used GIS to draw the tracks of Various Hurricanes.
Acquiring Data:
National Hurricane Center
Data Used

7. Steps Involved Downloading the data into a Microsoft Excel Sheet
Sorting the data to fit the GIS formats
Getting the World Map

8. Importing the Excel sheets into GIS
Creating a Shape file
Creating a New Geo database
Clipping the Part of World where Hurricanes Strike
Extracting the US Cities struck between
Generating a Time Series
Showing the Time series Variation Using Tracking Analyst

9. The Highlighted area shows the states that were struck by Hurricanes
during

10. A map showing the Track of Hurricane Allison

11. Conclusions Possibilities of an area being hit by Hurricanes
Is there a Particular Trend

12. Places where Hurricanes struck more often within
S.No.
STATE_NAME
No. of Times 1
Alabama 4 2
Arkansas 3
Connecticut
Florida 7 5
Georgia 6
Illinois
Indiana 8
Kentucky 9
Louisiana 10
Maine 11
Maryland 12
Massachusetts 13
Mississippi 14
Missouri 15
New Jersey 16
New York 17
North Carolina 18
Ohio 19
Pennsylvania 20
South Carolina 21
Tennessee 22
Texas 23
Virginia 24
West Virginia
Places where Hurricanes
struck more often within
USA between
A table showing the States where Hurricanes have struck mostly in USA
between

13. Some fields where such Information be used
Investments
By Finance companies
Building purposes
Deciding the Economy

14. Questions ……
Suggestion…….
Thank You! 