Introduction

 

The hurricane tracking products from PC Weather Products represent the most advanced and easy to use Tropical Cyclone Tracking and Analysis Systems available.  It has assisted emergency planning professionals and risk managers around the world for years.

 

Our premier software products, HURRTRAK Advanced, HURRTRAK RM/Pro and HURRTRAK EM/Pro offers an advanced set of functions and capabilities related to the analysis of Atlantic tropical systems as well as their potential impact to land/sea areas. HURRTRAK-ONLINE is the company's on-line service which provides all of the latest National Hurricane Center, JTWC, NWS, NOAA information, via an Internet connection, to the HURRTRAK Systems. In addition, PC Weather Products offers Global Tropical Cyclone Tracking Systems which track and analyze tropical cyclones around the world.

The main components of the system are Graphical and Reporting.

Graphical:

Pan and Zoom style highly detailed tracking charts
Google Earth interface
Ability to show counties and roadways on charts
Graphical representation of the storm's eye, eyewall, gale, storm and hurricane force winds
Ability to plot storm track on satellite or radar tracking charts
Wind Field" analysis that displays the likely wind speed and wind direction conditions at any point
Ability to display the NHC forecast path on any chart
Ability to display a storm's forecasted position & wind field at any hour
Ability to calculate/display a climatology based forecast
Display the areas of hurricane and tropical storm watches and warnings
Display the storm's past and forecasted wind band analysis
n Display the cone of uncertaity along with the official NHC forecast
Graphically depict internally calculated Strike Probabilities
Animate the storm's past and forecasted motion
Ability to print historical tracks on the same tracking chart as a current storm
SLOSH Inundation Analysis
Advanced Wind Estimation

SLOSH MEOW Inundation Analysis

Current Weather Observation display

Reporting/Decision Support:

Ability to compute a Location Impact Summary report
Ability to compute a detailed Location Impact Analysis report
Historical analysis program included to analyze past storm patterns
RiskAlert feature
Email Alerts
Automatic Summary Reports
Automated "outputs"
Automatically create a summary report for a set of locations.

Create a Location Impact Summary Report for a large number of locations
Calculate a county 'impact analysis" which analyzes the storm impact by numbers of people and households
Display hourly wind profiles for selected locations
Maintain EM user "diary" documenting the emergency actions taken
Display internally calculated Strike Probabilities for a set of location
Enhanced Decision Support capabilities with action point and decision arc support
"What IF capabilities"
Zip Code Analysis
Ability to define up to 10 custom county / zip code fields which can be used in the impact summary report
Advanced Wind Estimation
Damage Estimate Report
Shape file import/exports
Estimation of 25 knots wind radii

Display wind probability report
Display Surge Probability report

Display Current Weather Observation Report

 

Other:

Ability to customize the tracking chart colors
Ability to add/change any location in the vast 20,000 location database
Ability to define location groups
Text size, font and color can be customized