Hurricane Information Center

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Major basins and related warning centers

1 Atlantic basin
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2 Northeast Pacific basin
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3 Northwest Pacific basin
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4 North Indian basin
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5 Southwest Indian basin
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6 Southeast Indian/Australian basin
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7 Australian/Southwest Pacific basin

Hurricane Warning Centre

A Tropical Cyclone Warning Centre is one of six regional warning centers that are part of the World Meteorological Organization tropical cyclone programme, and act to observe, name, and forecast tropical cyclones in their respective sections of the world, supplementing the work of the main Regional Specialized Meteorological Centres.


The U.S. National Hurricane Center, located at Florida International University in Miami, Florida, is the division of National Weather Service's Tropical Prediction Center responsible for tracking and predicting the likely behavior of tropical depressions, tropical storms and hurricanes in the Northern Atlantic and Northeastern Pacific Basin.