Tropical system in the Gulf expected to gradually strengthen the next couple of days off the Florida Panhandle and Alabama coasts. Instances of flash flooding will be possible through Thursday along the eastern and central Gulf Coast. Severe thunderstorms will develop and move along a cold front crossing the Upper Midwest, and through the Ohio Valley/Mid-Atlantic on Tuesday. Read More >
Contact Information:
International Tsunami Information Center (ITIC)
NOAA Inouye Regional Center
1845 Wasp Boulevard, Building 176
Honolulu, HI USA
E-mail: itic.tsunami@noaa.gov
Tel: +1 808 725 6050
Fax: +1 808 725 6055
The ITIC maintains an office in Mayaquez, Puerto Rico. The ITIC Caribbean office (ITIC-CAR) support tsunami warning and mitigation activities in the Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, and Caribbean, working with the Caribbean Tsunami Information Center.
ITIC consists of the ITIC Director, Deputy Director, Staff Scientist, Technical Information Specialist for Tsunamis, Information Technology Specialist, and Administrative Assistant, who are provided by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Weather Service (NOAA NWS). The ITIC is supported additionally by project contractors, and has hosted international interns. Recent interns have been IOC Ocean Traineeships and from the University of Tokyo Ocean Alliance Program.
The ITIC Associate Director, which should be a non-US person, has been provided since 1998 by the Servicio Hidrográfico y Oeanográfico de la Armada (SHOA) de Chile. The ITIC Associate Director is Head of SHOA's Oceanography Department, who is in charge of Chile's National Tsunami Warning Center.
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