About Hurricane Track Chart
Hurricane Track Chart is the visual language of the National Hurricane Center's operational advisories: a dark ocean basin overprinted with the white "cone of uncertainty," thin spaghetti-model tracks, and category-coded swirl points keyed to the Saffir-Simpson scale.
Every element earns its place. The cone reads solid for days 1–3 and stippled for days 4–5; a high-category red-orange signals landfall against the navy water. It is calm, exact, and entirely operational.
- Origin
- North America (Gulf of Mexico & Atlantic basin)
- Era
- 1990–2010 (operational NHC advisory graphics era)
- Key figures
- NOAA / National Hurricane Center forecasters · Herbert Saffir · Robert Simpson
- Movements
- Operational tropical-cyclone forecasting graphics · Ensemble spaghetti-model visualization · Saffir-Simpson Wind Scale coding
Hurricane Track Chart design spec
Colors
Typography
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