This data is a subset of the NOAA Atlantic hurricane database best track data, http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/#hurdat. The data includes the positions and attributes of 198 tropical storms, measured every six hours during the lifetime of a storm.
storms
A tibble with 10,010 observations and 13 variables:
Storm Name
Date of report
Hour of report (in UTC)
Location of storm center
Storm classification (Tropical Depression, Tropical Storm, or Hurricane)
Saffir-Simpson storm category (estimated from wind speed. -1 = Tropical Depression, 0 = Tropical Storm)
storm's maximum sustained wind speed (in knots)
Air pressure at the storm's center (in millibars)
Diameter of the area experiencing tropical storm strength winds (34 knots or above)
Diameter of the area experiencing hurricane strength winds (64 knots or above)
The script to create the storms data set: https://github.com/tidyverse/dplyr/blob/master/data-raw/storms.R
storms#> # A tibble: 10,010 x 13 #> name year month day hour lat long status category wind pressure #> <chr> <dbl> <dbl> <int> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <chr> <ord> <int> <int> #> 1 Amy 1975 6 27 0 27.5 -79 tropi… -1 25 1013 #> 2 Amy 1975 6 27 6 28.5 -79 tropi… -1 25 1013 #> 3 Amy 1975 6 27 12 29.5 -79 tropi… -1 25 1013 #> 4 Amy 1975 6 27 18 30.5 -79 tropi… -1 25 1013 #> 5 Amy 1975 6 28 0 31.5 -78.8 tropi… -1 25 1012 #> 6 Amy 1975 6 28 6 32.4 -78.7 tropi… -1 25 1012 #> 7 Amy 1975 6 28 12 33.3 -78 tropi… -1 25 1011 #> 8 Amy 1975 6 28 18 34 -77 tropi… -1 30 1006 #> 9 Amy 1975 6 29 0 34.4 -75.8 tropi… 0 35 1004 #> 10 Amy 1975 6 29 6 34 -74.8 tropi… 0 40 1002 #> # … with 10,000 more rows, and 2 more variables: ts_diameter <dbl>, #> # hu_diameter <dbl>