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	Hurricane Hunters - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hurricane Hunters is the nickname given to the U.S. Air Force Reserves' 53d Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, whose fleet of ten WC-130 Hercules aircraft and crews are part of the 403d Wing, based at Keesler AFB in Biloxi, Mississippi.
		Outside of hurricane season, hurricane hunter aircraft are often deployed to northern parts of the United States to track winter storms and nor'easters.
		View of the eyewall of Hurricane Katrina taken on Aug 28, 2005, as seen from a NOAA P-3 hurricane hunter aircraft.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hurricane_Hunters (831 words)

	Hurricane Ivan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The National Hurricane Center noted the rapid strengthening of Hurricane Ivan on September 5 was unprecedented at such a low latitude in the Atlantic basin.
		Hurricane Ivan weakened slightly as it continued to move west due to wind shear present in the area.
		Hurricane Ivan is suspected of bringing spores of soybean rust from Venezuela into the United States, the first ever occurrences of soybean rust found in North America.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hurricane_Ivan (2802 words)

	Hurricane Hunters
		Hurricane hunter planes are specially fitted out for their work with an impressive range of instruments.
		Anyone who listens to the hurricane forecasts on NMN knows that although the position is quoted to a tenth of a minute, say 10 miles, the margin of accuracy may be 60 miles or more, a whole degree of latitude.
		Outside the hurricane season the hurricane hunter aircraft do a wide variety of weather and atmospheric research worldwide, emphasising that weather is no respecter of manmade national boundaries.
	www.caribbeancompass.com /hunterfin.htm (1066 words)

	FEMA For Kids: Hurricane Hunters
		The 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, known at the Hurricane Hunters, are part of the Air Force Reserve.
		Hurricane Hunters use WC-130 aircraft on their weather missions.
		first mission to check a new hurricane is flown at a low-level altitude, generally between 500 and 1,500 feet.
	www.fema.gov /kids/huhunt.htm (275 words)

	Flying Around A Hurricane with NOAA Researcher Chris Landsea.
		Hurricanes are quite a site to behold, but what about from within the eye of the storm itself.
		During the course of every hurricane season, the National Hurricane Center sends Air Force reconnaissance aircraft called "Hurricane Hunters" into the storm to measure the temperature, pressure, humidity, and wind speed.
		Landsea, went to investigate Hurricane Keith with the Hurricane Hunters in the new Gulfstream research jet, which flies into the upper levels of the atmosphere in the vicinity of the storm so that they could get better data on what the storm was going to do in terms of its future motion and intensification.
	www.hurricaneville.com /landsea_interview.html (1564 words)

	Howstuffworks "How Hurricanes Work"
		Hurricanes in the Northern Hemisphere rotate counterclockwise (west to east) and move through the ocean clockwise (east to west).
		To monitor and track the development and movement of a hurricane, we rely on remote sensing by satellites, as well as data gathered by the Hurricane Hunters.
		The National Hurricane Center predicts the hurricane's movement and intensity using various weather models and issues hurricane watches and warnings to areas in the storm's path.
	science.howstuffworks.com /hurricane6.htm (378 words)

	FAQ : HURRICANES, TYPHOONS, AND TROPICAL CYCLONES
		AOC is presently based at MacDill AFB in Tampa, Florida and among its fleet of planes has two P-3 Orions, originally made as Navy sub hunters, but modified to include three radars as well as a suite of meteorological instruments and dropsonde capability.
		It is used primarily to drop sondes around the hurricane's environment to measure synoptic-scale parameters in the usually data-free oceanic areas.
		This information is relayed by satellite to the National Hurricane Center for the hurricane specialists to evaluate.
	www.aoml.noaa.gov /hrd/tcfaq/H2.html (418 words)

	Hurricanes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Hurricanes rotate in a counter-clockwise direction around an "eye." The center of the storm or "eye" is the calmest part.
		Hurricanes typically form between 5 to 15 degrees latitude north and south of the equator.
		The Coriolis Force is needed to create the spin in the hurricane and it becomes too weak near the equator, so hurricanes can never form there.
	www.weatherwizkids.com /hurricane1.htm (1622 words)

	CNN.com - Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane hunters - Aug 30, 2005
		Hurricane Hunters - Fly into the eye of a storm with the scientists who do that for a living.
		HURRICANE HUNTER: The most spectacular is when we fly into the a storm when you have a clear eye.
		HURRICANE HUNTER: a big part of what we do is give them the wind field on the entire storm so that when they put out a warning, it can be as small as possible but still safe.
	www.cnn.com /2005/EDUCATION/08/30/transcript.wed (1627 words)

	Hurricane Hunters Fly into Record Season
		Wilma is the Atlantic hurricane season's 12th hurricane and its 21st named storm, tying the record set in 1933, and last equaled in 1969.
		The hurricane season ends Nov. 30 and, although activity in the Atlantic Basin decreases, tropical storms and hurricanes are still possible.
		With the Hurricane Hunters scheduled to return home to Keesler Air Force Base, in Biloxi, Miss., Nov. 2, they are planning to ensure a smooth transition and to keep their mission going as they have throughout the season.
	www.military.com /features/0,15240,78998,00.html (532 words)

	Hurricane Hunters: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In meteorology, a tropical cyclone (or tropical storm, typhoon, or hurricane, depending on strength and location) is a type of low-pressure system...
		Noreaster is a colloquial term for a storm whose winds come from the northeast, especially in the coastal areas of the northeastern united states....
		The 1943 surprise hurricane struck the houston, texas area on july 27, 1943....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/hu/hurricane_hunters.htm (1186 words)

	Public Awareness: satellites and hurricane hunters
		In the early part of this century, coastal residents may have had less than a day to prepare or evacuate their homes from an oncoming hurricane.
		Hurricane hunters are operated by both the Air Force Reserve based at Keesler Air Force Base in Mississippi and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
		When a hurricane hunter airplane is set to fly into a tropical storm or hurricane, it is ready for a long mission.
	ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu /(Gh)/guides/mtr/hurr/awar.rxml (327 words)

	Hurricane Hunters
		The 53rd WRS, known as the Hurricane Hunters, has sole responsibility for the reconnaissance mission in the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and Eastern and Central Pacific Ocean areas.
		From the flight deck, the aerial reconnaissance weather officer operates the computerized weather reconnaissance equipment to measure outside free air temperature, dewpoint (humidity), altitude of the aircraft and barometric pressure at that height.
		The WC-130 penetrates hurricanes or typhoons at an altitude of 10,000 feet to collect meteorological data in the vortex, or eye, of the storm.
	www.sertomaair.com /hurricane.html (512 words)

	Hurricanes: online meteorology guide
		Hurricanes are cyclones that develop over the warm tropical oceans and have sustained winds in excess of 64 knots (74 miles/hour).
		These storms are capable of producing dangerous winds, torrential rains and flooding, all of which may result in tremendous property damage and loss of life in coastal populations.
		The purpose of this module is to introduce hurricanes and their associated features, to show where hurricanes develop, and to explain the atmospheric conditions necessary for hurricane development.
	ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu /(Gh)/guides/mtr/hurr/home.rxml (343 words)

	Click2Weather.com - Hurricanes - Hurricane Hunters Work To Improve Detection
		CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Hurricane Erin in 1995 and Tropical Storm Gordon in 1994 are two examples of storms that appeared suddenly off the Florida coastline, giving residents little time to prepare.
		Heat is the engine of a hurricane and being able to find and measure it is the key to knowing what the storm will do, experts said.
		Researchers claim that if they can measure every hurricane as thoroughly as the ones they flew into last year then weather forecasting would take a big leap forward.
	www.click2weather.com /hurricanes/1518143/detail.html (357 words)

	Hurricane Hunters
		The official "Hurricane Hunters" are the Air Force Reserve's 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron.
		They pin-point where the center of the hurricane is (which can only be done roughly from a satelite) and also whether the hurricane is strengthening or weakening.
		Another group which routinely flies into hurricanes is the Hurricane Research Division (HRD) of the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meterological Laboratory (AOML), which itself is part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
	www.windows.ucar.edu /tour/link=/earth/Atmosphere/hurricane/hunters.html&edu=high (249 words)

	Hurricane Hunters Maintain Weather Eye (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Hurricane Hunters take to the skies to collect data from areas where it is impractical or impossible to have ground observation stations, or where weather satellites cannot provide complete information.
		During the hurricane season from June through November, the Hurricane Hunters provide surveillance of tropical disturbances and hurricanes in the western Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico for the National Hurricane Center in Miami.
		Hurricanes are composed of dense thunderstorms with severe turbulence and heavy rain.
	www.dcmilitary.com /stillserving/5_4/news/25374-1.html (426 words)

	Hurricane Hunters fly first operation WC-130J mission (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Hurricane Adrian also marked the beginning of a new era in weather reconnaissance for the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron’s “Hurricane Hunters” here.
		While Hurricane Hunters were determining the location of Tropical Storm Adrian, it was immediately upgraded to a hurricane during the first leg of their reconnaissance mission.
		The Hurricane Hunters are ready to complete the transition to the new aircraft this season, said Brig.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1409007/posts (978 words)

	Flying with NOAA's Gulfstream IV hurricane hunters, page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		During hurricane season, we often hear about the "hurricane hunters" who go flying through storms to gauge their strength and gather data.
		Every day, and often every night, during the height of hurricane season, one of NOAA's WP-3 Orion planes flies from Tampa through the eye of the storm in question, while a Gulfstream IV jet probes the edges of the storm.
		On September 22, Action News producer Chris Boex was along for the ride as the G-IV jet flew a mission around Hurricane Rita, which at the time of takeoff was one of the most powerful hurricanes to develop in the Atlantic.
	www.abcactionnews.com /weather/hurricanehunter (574 words)

	CNN.com - On the chase with hurricane hunters - Sep 13, 2004
		The hurricane hunter aircraft CNN producer Ben Blake and I boarded Sunday at 6 a.m.
		When the eye wall is well-defined, the hunters call this the "stadium effect." They say the fiercer the hurricane, the more majestic it is in the middle.
		During Hurricane Frances, which moved at less than 15 mph on its track toward Florida more than a week ago, I predicted someone would create a graphic that said "Slow-i-cane." I was wrong, thank goodness.
	www.cnn.com /2004/WEATHER/09/13/bellini.hurricane.chaser (662 words)

	NOAA's Hurricane Hunters
		NOAA's newest aircraft acquisition is a Gulfstream IV SP (Special Performance) jet, which began hurricane surveillance missions in 1997 in support of forecasters at NOAA's National Hurricane Center.
		Slicing through the eyewall of a hurricane, buffeted by howling winds, blinding rain, hail, and violent updrafts and downdrafts before entering the relative calm of the storm's eye, NOAA's two P-3 turboprop aircraft probe every wind and pressure change, repeating the grueling experience again and again during the course of a ten-hour mission.
		The missions not only provided hurricane forecasters with critical data via the numerical model forecasts, but also gave real-time indicators of the overall weather conditions working together that were thought to be influencing the tracks of the hurricanes.
	www.publicaffairs.noaa.gov /grounders/hurricanehunters.html (915 words)

	Hurricane Hunters - 53rd WRS
		After major Hurricane Dennis forced us to temporarily evacuate our aircraft from Keesler, it was hard to imagine just how bad things were about to get.
		Three days later, we began our week of flights into Hurricane Emily; we flew nearly 50 missions by July 24th, with scarcely a break by the time we hit "Gert" on the list.
		The 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, known as the Hurricane Hunters of the Air Force Reserve, is one-of-a-kind: the only Department of Defense organization still flying into tropical storms and hurricanes--since 1944.
	www.hurricanehunters.com (347 words)

	Disaster News Network: Hurricane Hunters on tour
		Flags mark the countries that the NOAA Hurricane Hunter Aircraft has been to, and the red hurricanes note which storms the plane has flown into.
		The NOAA WP-3D Orion turbo-prop plane was on display at the Martin State Airport north of Baltimore as part of NOAA’s five-city, five-day mission to increase hurricane awareness and encourage preparedness in vulnerable coastal and inland communities of the East Coast.
		The WP-3D has a Doppler radar on its belly, and a crew of 18-20 to staff it during the long flights into hurricanes and tropical storms. Dave Brogan, an electrical technician on the plane’s crew, is responsible for dropping instruments from the plane into the storm in order to gather data.
	www.disasternews.net /news/news.php?articleid=2633 (685 words)

	NOAA and Hurricane Hunters
		Hurricane aircraft almost never fly over land because hurricanes spawn tornadoes; they fly through hurricanes over the open seas.
		However, the National Hurricane Center requested that the aircraft fly over the Cuban land area because the eye of Georges was over Cuba and it was imperative that its exact position be determined.
		NOAA is the only federal agency with hurricane tracking capabilities that is authorized by Cuba to fly in its airspace.
	www.publicaffairs.noaa.gov /stories/sir19.html (568 words)

	katrina news online - Hurricane Hunters
		The season's five landfalling major hurricanes — Dennis, Emily, Katrina, Rita, and Wilma — were responsible for most of the destruction.
		The most catastrophic effects of the season were felt on the United States' Gulf Coast, where a 30-foot storm surge from Hurricane Katrina caused devastating flooding that inundated New Orleans and destroyed most structures on the Mississippi coastline.
		Hurricane Hunters is the nickname given to two groups that fly instrumented aircraft into Atlantic tropical cyclones (hurricanes) to collect data.
	www.katrinanewsonline.com /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=53&Itemid=2 (345 words)

	Airman: More than meets the eye: Hurricane Hunters give early warnings to coastal communities, saving lives and ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In an average three-year period, roughly five hurricanes strike the U.S. coastline from Texas to Maine, killing approximately 50 to 100 people, according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami.
		That's where the hurricane hunters and their 10 WC-130H aircraft come in.
		Hurricane forecasters at the National Hurricane Center use the data to determine what kinds of watches, warnings and evacuations to issue for each storm.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0IBP/is_5_47/ai_101496084 (423 words)

	The Hurricane Hunters - The Caribbean Hurricane Network
		Hurricanes can also cause devastating floods, and some contain tornadoes, with up to 100 tornadoes sometimes recorded in a single hurricane.
		When forecasters at the National Hurricane Center detect a potential storm, a call is made to the Hurricane Hunters with a request that they investigate.
		This vital service offered by the elite Hurricane Hunters gives advance warning to those living in and visiting the Caribbean, information on which we are all dependent.
	www.stormcarib.com /hurrhunt.htm (946 words)

	The Deadliest Atlantic Tropical Cyclones, 1492-1996
		Hunter, M. N., 1982: A watery fate for the lost colony.
		Konrad, H. W., 1985: Fallout of the wars of the Chacs: The impact of hurricanes and implications for prehispanic Quintana Roo Maya processes.
		Redfield, W. C., 1846: On three several hurricanes of the American seas and their relations to the Northers, so called, of the Gulf of Mexico and the Bay of Honduras, with charts illustrating the same.
	www.nhc.noaa.gov /pastdeadly6.shtml (706 words)

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