Title	Hurricane Mapper
Author	John.Fay@duke.edu
Date	Fall 2025

HurricaneMapper_PY

This workspace contains a Python-based geoprocessing workflow of the Hurricane Mapping tool created in the Advanced Geoprocessing section of ENV859.

The workflow, represented in the HurricaneTracker.ipynb notebook, allows the user to specify a storm season (e.g. 2018) and named storm from that season (e.g. "FLORENCE"), and create an output feature class of the US counties affected by that storm.

The workspace structure is as follows:

[Project Folder] 
		|
		├ data 
		|	|
		|	├ raw
		|	|	|
		|	|	└ IBTrACS_NA.zip (IBTrACS shapefile of storm track points - compressed)
		|	|	
		|	└ processed
		|
		└ src
			|
			└ HurricaneTracker.ipynb (Jupyter notebook)

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⚠️Note that the IBTrACS_NA shapefile should be unzipped directly into the raw folder before running the script.