HURREVAC State-Specific Plugins
Although HURREVAC for Windows 95/98/NT/200/XP was designed to be generic and quickly usable by all areas to track hurricanes and time arrival of various wind parameters, the program needs certain plug-ins (separate files which are added to certain directories) in order to produce evacuation decision times, show inundation areas (based on the NWS SLOSH model), show River Gage site maps and do other specialized duties for the at-risk states.
There are 4 types of plug-ins available for Hurrevac2000:
Evacuation Data Plug-Ins
Inundation Graphic Plug-Ins
NOAA River Gage Map Plug-Ins
Special Texas and Alabama Pre-34Knot Tide Plug-Ins
Evacuation Data Plug-Ins
The Evacuation Data plug-ins are available only for states and coastal at-risk counties which have current evacuation clearance times produced by a Hurricane Evacuation Study. They are necessary if you are a coastal or at-risk county with Hurricane Evacuation Study clearance times and wish use Hurrevac to help in timing a decision on evacuation.
Currently Evacuation Data plug-ins are available for:
- Louisiana (Southeast parishes)
- Mississippi
- Alabama
- Florida
- Georgia
- South Carolina
- North Carolina
- Virginia
- Maryland
- Delaware
- New Jersey
- New York
- Connecticut
- Rhode Island
- Massachusetts (South of Boston)
- Texas Hawaii (Oahu)
- Puerto Rico (South, East and Northeast coast)
- US Virgin Islands
- Jamaica
Instructions for download and setup for Evacuation Data plug-ins are here
Inundation Graphic Plug-Ins
The Inundation Graphic plug-ins are available only for states and coastal at-risk counties which current have the old (DOS) HURREVAC Inundation graphics. These have been converted from the old program to be viewable in the new Hurrevac2000 program. If you are not on this list, keep in mind that you may integrate a custom Inundation GIS with Hurrevac2000.
Currently Inundation Graphic plug-ins are available for:
- Louisiana (Southeast parishes)
- Mississippi
- Alabama
- Florida (Apalachee Bay, Cedar Key Region, Tampa Bay, Treasure Coast)
- Georgia
- South Carolina
- North Carolina
- Virginia
- Maryland
- Delaware
- New Jersey
- New York
- Connecticut
- Rhode Island
- Maine
- Puerto Rico (South, East and Northeast coast)
- US Virgin Islands
Instructions for download and setup for Inundation Map plug-ins are here
NOAA River Gage Site Maps
These river gage site maps are currently available for the states in FEMA Region 4, FEMA Region 6 and FEMA Region 1.
- Mississippi
- Alabama
- Georgia
- Florida
- South Carolina
- North Carolina
- Texas
- Louisiana
- Connecticut
- Rhode Island
- Massachusetts
- New Hampshire
- Vermont
- Maine
The maps are not available for all gages in these states, but are available for many key gages there, and include 100 year and 500 year flood information, from Q3 and DFirm map data. They were produced by the NOAA Coastal Services Center. The maps are called from the River Gage Browser in Hurrevac by clicking on the map button on the browser. The map button appears on the River Gage Browser once you have copied a map for that gage into the proper directory folder (see instructions).
Instructions for download and setup for River Gage Map plug-ins are here
Special Texas and Alabama Pre-34 Knot Tide Plug-Ins
These are special modules which calculate the threat to coastal evacuation before the 34 knot winds arrive. This was specially done for these 2 Gulf states because of tidal anomalies that sometimes appear in the Gulf of Mexico when hurricanes enter the Gulf and well before the winds begin to affect an area (example Carla 1961)
Instructions for download and setup for TX and AL Pre-34kt Tide plug-ins are here.