48 hour Hurricane Forecast track error (nautical miles)
performance.commerce.gov | Last Updated 28 Mar 2024The public, private sectors, emergency managers, and government institutions at all levels in this country and abroad use NOAA tropical cyclone forecasts to make decisions regarding the protection of life and property. This goal measures the difference between the projected and actual location of the center of tropical cyclones in nautical miles (nm) for the Atlantic Basin, averaged over all the 48- hour forecasts occurring during the calendar year (CY). * Data for a given CY are not available until April of the following CY.
This dataset has the following 6 columns:
| Column Name | API Column Name | Data Type | Sample Values |
|---|---|---|---|
| Performance Indicator | performance_indicator | text | 48 hour Hurricane Forecast track error (nautical miles) view top 100 |
| Fiscal Year | fiscal_year | calendar_date | 2014-09-30T00:00:00.000 2017-09-30T00:00:00.000 2016-09-30T00:00:00.000 2006-09-30T00:00:00.000 2005-09-30T00:00:00.000 view top 100 |
| Actual | actual | number | 97 71 69 60 103 view top 100 |
| Target | target | number | 52 110 108 71 77 view top 100 |
| Proximity | proximity | number | 1 1.06942 0.805825 0.914729 1.49296 view top 100 |
| Status | status | text | Exceeded Met Not Met view top 100 |