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Query Expediter How-to Guide

This resource allows you to build custom Uniform Resource Locator (URL) strings that you can embed in your own Web site that will link users directly to the on-line mapping application with specific storm tracks pre-displayed. In this way, you can let your users bypass the standard query options and go directly to the map and see storm tracks that have already been plotted.

Instructions on creating the custom URLs to link to specific storms are included below. If you have trouble creating one or more URLs containing your parameters of interest, or have a general question, contact csc@csc.noaa.gov.

Query Expediter Example

For an example of how this works, visit the National Hurricane Preparedness Web site's History and click a link beneath one of the thumbnail pictures. Doing so takes you directly to the Historical Hurricane Tracks Web mapping tool—with the featured storm pre-plotted. For interaction, you can use the tools located above the map. To assist you in developing customized URLs, an Atlantic Basin table of storm names and numbers and an East-Central Pacific Basin table of storm names and numbers (PDF, requires Adobe® Reader®) are available. The example below provides the storm tracks for Flossy, Brenda, and Dora.
Sample Storm Name Query – http://hurricane.csc.noaa.gov/hurricanes/viewer.html?QE=NAME&ATLBASIN=829,862,897

Storm Name Query | Geographic Query | ZIP Code Query | Place Name Query | World Query | Latitude/Longitude Query

Storm Name Query

Sample: Storm Name Query for East-Central Pacific Basin

Click here

Note About Geographic Queries

All geographic queries need other values defined. Use this same format for all geographic queries. After the .html?QE= insert one or more of the following parameters:

MONTHS=9,10,11,12 (if no value is specified, all months are searched)

YEARS=1901,1902,1903 (if no value is specified, all years are searched)

CATS='H3','H4','H5' (comma delimited list of categories-if none listed, all storms are searched)

DIST=65&UNIT=MI (If distance is specified the tool looks for units—if no units specified, the tool uses nautical miles; if no distance is listed, the tool uses 65 Nautical Miles)

ZIP Code Query

Sample: Charleston Major Hurricanes – Click here

Place Name Query

Place Name, U.S. State Query

Sample: State Name Query – Click here

Place Name, U.S. County Query (State Abbreviation and a name from our list)

Sample: State and County Query – Click here

Place Name, US State and City Query (State Abbreviation and a name from our list)

Sample: State and Place (City) Query – Click here

World Query

World Named Place Query (Name must be from our list)

Sample: World Place (Place Name) Query – Click here

World Region Envelope Query (minx,maxx,miny,maxy)

Sample: World Place (Region Envelope) Query – Click here

Latitude/Longitude Query

Latitude/Longitude Query

Sample: Lat/Long Query – Click here

Latitude/Longitude Query (with optional years parameter included)

Sample: Lat/Long Query – Click here

Latitude/Longitude Query (with optional months parameter included)

Sample: Lat/Long Query – Click here

Latitude/Longitude Query (with optional distance and units parameters included)

Sample: Lat/Long Query – Click here

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