WDT routinely provides tropical storm tracks (past and forecast
tracks) as well as wind radii data in point, polyline and polygon
shapefile formats. These products are updated every 3 or 6 hours
when a tropical storm is present. Point shapefile attribute data
include the storm name, past and forecast location date, time,
lat/lon, wind speed, pressure and storm-type (tropical depression,
tropical storm, or hurricane). Since the tropical storm datasets
are provided in standard GIS formats, these data may be integrated
with other GIS-compatible datasets and displayed in commonly used
GIS applications such as ESRI ArcGIS/ArcView for the purpose of
assessing and mitigating the impact of an impending tropical storm
on weather-sensitive operations and facility assets.


