Hurricane alerts waitlist for your location

How the planned alerts would work

Email delivery is not enabled. The following describes the planned trigger, rather than a service you can rely on today. Every five minutes we check the National Hurricane Center for new advisories on Atlantic and eastern Pacific storms, and on Central Pacific Hurricane Center storms near Hawaii. Each time a new forecast cone arrives, the planned alert system would test each verified subscriber’s place against it.

• One point, not an area. We test the coordinates of the city or ZIP code you picked. A cone that clips a large city but misses its center point would send nothing.
• The five-day cone. The cone reaches up to five days ahead, so an email could come days before any watch or warning, and the cone may later shift away.
• Any system with a cone. That includes depressions and potential tropical cyclones, so the first email may say “Potential Tropical Cyclone Seven” instead of a name.
• One email per storm and place. Later advisories would not send a second one, even if the cone moves away and comes back.

No outlooks, season summaries or newsletters: the planned service would send nothing unless a cone reaches your place.

Preview of a planned email

This is a preview only; no emails are currently sent. It shows the message our alert code builds for a subscriber in Heroica Guaymas, Sonora, from NHC advisory 34 on Hurricane Polo (8 PM MST, September 28, 2026). Polo was about to make landfall in Baja California Sur, and that advisory’s cone covered Guaymas, across the Gulf of California.

Distance runs from the storm’s center at advisory time to your place. Winds use NHC’s rounding, so they match the advisory. The link opens the storm’s page, here Hurricane Polo.

How often storms threaten a city

We have kept NHC cone files only since 2026, so there is no cone history to count yet. As a stand-in, the table counts storms whose center passed within 100 miles (160 km) of each city at tropical-storm strength or more, in our best-track archive since 2000.

From 2000 to 2026, Cabo San Lucas saw the most, 29 storms, and Honolulu the fewest, 3.

Cone alerts would usually outnumber these counts, since the cone also covers places the center ends up missing. And distance is not damage: rain and surge can reach far beyond 100 miles.

Official NOAA alerts you should also get

The waitlist sends no warnings or alerts. Use official warning channels now:

• Wireless Emergency Alerts. The National Weather Service sends hurricane, storm surge and extreme wind warnings to phones in the area, free and with no sign-up (Wireless Emergency Alerts, NWS).
• NOAA Weather Radio. Broadcasts warnings from your local NWS office.
• NHC advisories. Public advisories every six hours (03, 09, 15 and 21 UTC), with key messages and the cone, on the National Hurricane Center site.
• Local officials. Your NWS office issues Hurricane Local Statements for your area; evacuation orders come from local officials, never from NHC or from us.

What each level means: hurricane watch vs warning.

Privacy

When you join the waitlist, we store your email address, the selected place’s name and coordinates, registration time and a random link token. A masked registration notification (registration number, masked email and country only) is sent to our private Discord channel for operations. Discord processes that notification; your full email, precise location and link token are not sent there. Email delivery is disabled. We do not sell your address or use it for marketing. Before storm email delivery starts, you will need to verify your email address. To request deletion of your registration, write to privacy@hurritracker.com. Details: privacy policy.