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Heavy Rainfall and Flooding Concerns in the Southwest; Coastal Low to Impact the East Coast

Deep tropical moisture will lead to widespread showers and thunderstorms capable of producing flash flooding through early next week over the Southwest and Four Corners. A coastal storm is expected to develop off the southeast U.S. coast tonight and is expected to strengthen and bring flooding, dangerous rip currents, gusty winds and heavy rain up much of the East Coast through early next week. 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 Staff  

 

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.