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Radius of maximum wind

The distance from a tropical cyclone center to the radius at which maximum sustained wind occurs, with unit, observation time, basin, and best-track vintage retained as context.

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NOAA National Weather Service

HURDAT2 Best Track Datasets

NHC's official post-storm best-track data product for Atlantic cyclones from 1851 and Northeast/North Central Pacific cyclones from 1949. Two basin files are delivery partitions of one HURDAT2 product. Records provide native six-hourly and selected asynoptic positions, status, winds, central pressure, wind radii, and landfall/peak identifiers.

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Tropical-cyclone track and intensity climatology Tropical-cyclone track and wind extent

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