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Haiti 'Got Very Lucky' as Tomas Skirted Island

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Nov. 6) -- Hurricane Tomas pushed northward from Haiti on Saturday, leaving villagers to mop up, evacuees to return to their tents and most everyone relieved that the country did not suffer what could have been its first big disaster since the January earthquake. The storm's western track caused...

Hurricane Tomas Lashes Battered Haiti

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Nov. 5) -- Winds of up to 80 mph ripped through parts of Haiti today as Tomas grew from a tropical storm into a Category 1 hurricane. One of the hardest hit areas, The Associated Press reported, was Leogane, where flooding forced families who had already lost their homes in the earthquake to flee...

Everybody Scrambling as Tropical Storm Nears Haiti

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Nov. 4) -- Experts and government officials are scrambling here this afternoon to make last-minute preparations for another catastrophic event. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Hurricane Center predicts that Tropical Storm Tomas, which may reach hurricane strength, will...

Tropical Storm Shary Forms and Tomas Follows

(Oct. 29) -- The Atlantic basin hurricane season officially ends Nov. 30, but an ongoing burst of activity indicates that this active season is not ready to end quietly. Tropical Storms Shary and Tomas have formed in the Atlantic. Shary will pass well to the east of Bermuda tonight, and the rapidly strengthening Tomas is...

Tropical Storm Richard May Reach Hurricane Strength

(Oct. 22) -- Tropical Storm Richard is expected to strengthen into a hurricane and pound parts of Central America and the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico through early next week. Life-threatening flooding is a risk in this region, which already has been hard hit during the Atlantic hurricane season. National Hurricane Center...

Background on National Hurricane Center

The National Hurricane Center (NHC), located at Florida International University in Miami, Florida, is the division of the National Weather Service responsible for tracking and predicting weather systems within the tropics between the Prime Meridian and the 140th meridian west poleward to the 30th parallel north in the northeast Pacific ocean and the 31st parallel north in the northern Atlantic ocean.

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