Current NHC storm data
The latest NHC feed lists 2 active tropical systems: Trudy (Tropical Storm), Simon (Hurricane). Last checked Oct 14, 2026, 9:00 AM UTC. Use this live tracker to see current storm positions, forecast paths, NHC advisories, radar, satellite imagery, and local NWS alerts in one place.
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Interactive weather operations
Explore current NHC hurricane positions, forecast tracks, live radar, and NOAA GOES satellite-loop views across the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific basins.
Observe cloud changes
Use the GOES satellite loop when a system is offshore or organizing over open water. GeoColor shows broad cloud structure, infrared highlights colder cloud tops, and water vapor helps show surrounding moisture patterns. These observations do not predict landfall or local impacts.
Use each layer correctly
Active systems right now
This list reflects the latest available NHC feed and advisory update time. Open the interactive tracker for current-map context, forecast paths, radar, and local NWS alerts before making urgent decisions.
Looking for the latest hurricanes or tropical storms right now? This live list includes named systems currently reported by the NHC; disturbances are tracked separately in the outlook below.
Tropical Storm
Eastern Pacific · TS Trudy: 45 kt, 295° at 10 kt.
Position 11.1N, 99.0W · Updated 2026-10-14T09:00:00.000Z
Hurricane
Eastern Pacific · HU Simon: 90 kt, 230° at 3 kt.
Position 19.8N, 107.9W · Updated 2026-10-14T09:00:00.000Z
Before a storm is named
Monitor official NHC development areas, tropical waves, and disturbances before they become named storms. A colored outlook area indicates formation potential, not a forecast track or an impact area.
Official NHC seven-day Atlantic outlook. Check the issue time and accompanying NHC text before making decisions.
Live map workflow
Use the current hurricane tracker for storm position, forecast movement, advisory time, and official NHC links.
Use radar and active alerts to understand rain bands, local warnings, and changing weather near your area.
City and state pages help connect the storm map with evacuation zones, surge exposure, flooding, and outages.
Read each layer correctly
These layers answer different questions. Compare them instead of treating any single map as a complete picture of hurricane risk.
Shows the official storm center, classification, advisory time, and forecast track. Use it to understand where the system is and where the center may move.
Check official NHC advisoriesShows precipitation and rain-band movement near radar coverage. Radar is most useful as a storm approaches land, but it does not show the complete hurricane forecast.
Open full hurricane radarShows cloud structure and organization across the ocean, including systems beyond coastal radar range. It helps reveal storm shape, not exact local impacts.
Compare satellite layersShows probable uncertainty in the future position of the storm center. It is not an impact boundary: wind, surge, flooding, and tornadoes can occur outside it.
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Official-source mindset
Live maps are useful for orientation, but local watches, warnings, evacuation orders, shelter instructions, and road restrictions should come from NHC, NWS, and local emergency management.
Search intent paths
A live tracker answers where the storm is. These next paths help answer what it means for your location, timeline, alerts, and household decisions.
Open the live NHC storm feed and state alert snapshot before moving into local planning.
Use radar and satellite layers to compare rain bands, storm structure, and local weather timing.
Open NOAA GOES-East GeoColor, infrared, or water-vapor views for Atlantic, Gulf, East Coast, and Caribbean cloud changes.
Read the forecast track and cone correctly before treating a center line as a local impact forecast.
Compare official forecast uncertainty with surge, rainfall, and local alert context near a possible landfall area.
Check active watches, warnings, advisories, and alert wording before changing household plans.
Move from storm position to local surge, flood, route, outage, and evacuation context.
Open standing storm-name pages for current-feed checks and official NHC advisory links.
Translate active alerts and storm context into Monitor, Prepare, Act, or Leave timing.
Compare a location with current NHC storm coordinates while keeping distance limits in context.
Turn watches, warnings, surge, flood, tornado, and evacuation wording into planning prompts.
Popular tracker searches
Use these pages when your search is about a specific map, path, surge, or evacuation-zone question.
Learn why hurricane paths, intensity forecasts, cones, and arrival times change as observations and forecast guidance update.
Compare Atlantic, Eastern Pacific, and Central Pacific hurricane basins, storm-name lists, forecast centers, and active-system tracking.
Understand the latest hurricane landfall forecast using the NHC track, cone, arrival timing, wind field, surge products, and local official alerts.
Compare a tropical storm vs hurricane by wind speed, forecast labels, warnings, surge, rainfall, tornado, and preparation decisions.
Compare hurricane categories 1 through 5, wind speed thresholds, likely wind damage, and why category does not measure surge or rainfall risk.
Track hurricanes approaching the Southeast and East Coast with live NHC paths, radar, alerts, and Georgia, Carolinas, Virginia, and Florida trackers.
Check whether a hurricane or tropical storm is in the Gulf right now with the live NHC map, current path, radar, and Gulf Coast alerts.
Learn how scientists and the National Hurricane Center track hurricanes with satellites, aircraft, radar, buoys, models, and official forecast advisories.
Understand what a hurricane warning means, how it differs from a watch, and how to turn NWS alerts into a household action plan.
See what hurricanes look like on satellite and radar: the eye, eyewall, rain bands, cloud structure, and why appearance alone is not a risk measure.
Learn how NHC tracks, forecast cones, radar, satellite, and local alert layers answer different storm questions, then open the current live map.
Track a hurricane path with live NHC storm context, current storm position, forecast cone explainers, city trackers, radar, and impact-window tools.
Learn how hurricane evacuation zones fit with local orders, storm surge risk, city trackers, alerts, and household evacuation planning tools.
Understand storm surge map context, NWS surge watches and warnings, ZIP checks, city trackers, and local evacuation planning.
Learn how hurricane spaghetti models, GFS, ECMWF, ICON, AI guidance, and model spread fit with the official NHC forecast and local alerts.
Plan hurricane-season cruises and flights with official storm updates, carrier terms, port status, flexible itinerary checks, and practical disruption steps.
Use hurricane radar and satellite with NHC storm context, rain bands, wind timing, local NWS alerts, and city tracker links.
Learn how to use a live hurricane tracker with NHC advisories, radar, alerts, city pages, and local decision tools, then open the current storm map.
Build a hurricane preparedness checklist for supplies, documents, pets, medical needs, power outages, family communication, and evacuation timing.
Build a hurricane evacuation plan with local zones, departure triggers, destinations, routes, transport, pets, medical needs, and official alerts.
Learn hurricane mitigation strategies for wind, water, buildings, utilities, land use, insurance, and community resilience before the next storm.
Run a hurricane drill for families, workplaces, schools, or community groups using realistic alerts, evacuation, communication, shelter, and recovery tasks.
Follow an after-hurricane cleanup and recovery checklist for reentry, downed lines, floodwater, generators, mold, food, water, insurance, and repairs.
The latest NHC feed lists 1 hurricane plus 1 other tropical or post-tropical system. Open the current system list and verify each advisory time before making decisions.
The current storm list below shows the latest NHC-reported position and update time for each active system. Use the map and official advisory for the full forecast context.
Use the Gulf hurricane tracker for the current NHC Gulf status, then check Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, or Texas local pages for alerts and official instructions.
NHC advisories follow scheduled cycles and may include intermediate updates when conditions require them. Always use the timestamp attached to the latest official advisory.
Use the tracker for storm position and advisory context, then compare it with radar, local NWS alerts, and local emergency guidance before making travel, shelter, or evacuation decisions.
No. A tracker map helps with storm context, but local impacts such as storm surge, flooding rain, tornado warnings, bridge closures, and evacuation orders require local official sources.
During an active threat, check official NHC advisories, local NWS alerts, and local emergency management updates regularly, especially when watches or warnings are issued.
No. A live tracker can show current storm context and links, while the NHC forecast cone explains the likely track of the storm center. Neither one shows every local hazard, so use local alerts for wind, surge, flood, and tornado risk.
Radar can show rain bands and local precipitation timing, while hurricane tracker data explains the larger tropical system. Looking at both helps users avoid focusing only on the storm center.
Open HurricaneHub radar, switch to Satellite, choose GeoColor, infrared, or water vapor, then use the loop control for the official NOAA GOES animation. Satellite shows observed cloud structure, not a landfall forecast or impact boundary.
Yes. Use the named hurricane tracker hub to open standing pages for specific storm names, then confirm whether the current NHC feed lists that name as active.
Use the state tracker for broad NWS alert context and the city tracker for local planning notes, nearby counties, surge exposure, flooding concerns, and route or outage context.