40th anniversary of Hurricane Alicia – Hurricane Research Division

To commemorate the 40th anniversary of Hurricane Alicia’s landfall near Galveston, the National Weather Service Office in Houston/Galveston has created a story map. Details in the story map include the work that NOAA/AOML/HRD did with the hurricane, including multiple flights with Hurricane Hunter aircraft, gathering the first-ever airborne Doppler radar data in a major hurricane, and the recording of the ground-based radar data by HRD scientists. You can see the story map at https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/6eb3b887792542d486e7bad647e1e772. For more information, contact aoml.communications@noaa.gov.