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