Terminology you hear a lot during hurricane season.
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The Tropical Prediction Center (TPC) is a component of the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) located at Florida International University in Miami, Florida. The TPC mission is to save lives, mitigate property loss, and improve economic efficiency by issuing the best watches, warnings, forecasts and analyses of hazardous tropical weather, and by increasing understanding of these hazards.
FAQs about the tropics from the National Hurricane Center.
The Hurricane Intercept Research Team (HIRT) is a locally based hurricane chase team that researches the affects of storm surge in a hurricane or tropical storm's landfall area.