# Active Hurricane & Tropical Storm Tracker (`m_ctim/active-hurricane-tracker`) Actor

Get all currently active Atlantic and Eastern/Central Pacific tropical cyclones — name, classification, intensity, position, movement, and forecast links — via the official US National Hurricane Center public feed.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/m\_ctim/active-hurricane-tracker.md
- **Developed by:** [Timothy Kelvin](https://apify.com/m_ctim) (community)
- **Categories:** Travel
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

Pay per usage

This Actor is paid per platform usage. The Actor is free to use, and you only pay for the Apify platform usage, which gets cheaper the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-usage

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Active Hurricane & Tropical Storm Tracker

Get every currently active tropical cyclone the US National Hurricane
Center is tracking in the Atlantic and Eastern/Central Pacific basins
— name, classification, max sustained wind, pressure, position,
movement, and links to the latest public advisory and forecast
discussion — via the official [NHC current-storms
feed](https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/).

Built for logistics, insurance, media, and emergency-planning teams
who need current storm status without checking nhc.noaa.gov by hand.

### Input

```json
{
  "basin": "all",
  "minimumClassification": "any"
}
```

| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `basin` | string | `"all"`, `"atlantic"`, `"eastern-pacific"`, or `"central-pacific"`. Default `"all"`. |
| `minimumClassification` | string | `"any"`, `"TD"` (Tropical Depression or stronger), `"TS"` (Tropical Storm or stronger), or `"HU"` (Hurricane strength only). A storm with a classification outside this TD/TS/HU scale (e.g. a subtropical or post-tropical system) is always included rather than silently dropped. Default `"any"`. |

### Output

One record per active storm, or zero rows during a quiet stretch —
that's a real "nothing currently active" result, not an error:

```json
{
  "id": "cp012026",
  "name": "Lala",
  "classification": "HU",
  "maxSustainedWindMph": 80,
  "minCentralPressureMb": 974,
  "latitude": 26.1,
  "longitude": -172,
  "movementDirectionDegrees": 15,
  "movementSpeedMph": 10,
  "lastUpdate": "2026-08-21T06:00:00.000Z",
  "publicAdvisoryUrl": "https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/HFOTCPCP2.shtml",
  "forecastDiscussionUrl": "https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/HFOTCDCP2.shtml",
  "forecastGraphicsUrl": "https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/graphics_cp2.shtml"
}
```

### How it works

A direct call to NHC's official public `CurrentStorms.json` feed — no
proxy, no key, no scraping. NHC covers the Atlantic and Eastern/Central
Pacific only; storms elsewhere (e.g. Western Pacific typhoons, Indian
Ocean cyclones) are tracked by other national agencies and aren't in
this feed.

### Pricing note

Billed per **check** (one run), regardless of how many storms are
currently active.

### Related products

- [Space Weather Alert](https://github.com/timmKal01/space-weather-alert) — solar/geomagnetic conditions, a different hazard-monitoring family
- [Disaster Declaration Tracker](https://github.com/timmKal01/disaster-declaration-tracker) — FEMA disaster declarations, often triggered after a storm like this makes landfall

# Actor input Schema

## `basin` (type: `string`):

Restrict to one basin. Leave as "All" to return every currently active storm NHC is tracking.

## `minimumClassification` (type: `string`):

Only return storms at or above this intensity classification.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "basin": "all",
  "minimumClassification": "any"
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("m_ctim/active-hurricane-tracker").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("m_ctim/active-hurricane-tracker").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call m_ctim/active-hurricane-tracker --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,m_ctim/active-hurricane-tracker"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/AfV9j1ltH5hBDbJsZ/builds/WmVkU42v0HQwa1z2F/openapi.json