iMapHurricane Video Widget

The iMapHurricane! Video Widget, features daily tropical storm forecasts and live video updates from the nation’s hurricane experts at NOAA’s National Hurricane Center (NHC) when hurricanes threaten landfall. Media companies have access to the widget that can be embedded in their website for a small one-time setup fee and no on-going cost, whether they are located in Hurricane prone areas or across the country.

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Video Widget Key Features

Media companies may easily embed the iMapHurricane! Video Widget directly in their website. The NHC Updates Widget is a Flash-based videoplayer application that may be embedded in an iframe on any web page. AEN hosts the widget and provides hosting, bandwidth, and real-time and on demand content.

iMapHurricane Video Widget
For more information, contact

Mike Gauthier at (405) 618.2239

Video Widget Benefits
  • In partnership with America’s Emergency Network, WDT provides real-time video streaming from the NHC during critical tropical storm events.
  • The NHC will provide hourly updates during hurricane landfall situations, and will hold special briefings during high-risk scenarios when storms are especially strong and storm patterns threaten large cities or vulnerable populations.
  • Each NHC update and briefing is available live and as video on-demand for four hours after the feed is over.
  • New in 2010, twice daily tropical forecasts from tropical experts at IPS Meteostar.
  • Important expert information from the NHC can be distributed to media outlets and directly to the public without news crews and remote trucks having to be deployed.
  • Live video feeds are sent to websites and broadcast studios via the AEN network at a fraction of the cost of traditional video-transmission systems.