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Here is an update on the Atlantic Tropics as of Monday 9/16/24 at 820 AM EDT/1220 UTC:

Potential Tropical Cyclone 8 (PTC-8) is near the Southeast North Carolina/Northeast South Carolina coast line. Regardless of development into a named tropical storm, tropical storm force conditions of heavy rainfall, strong to damaging winds and coastal flooding are occurring in this area with Tropical Storm Warnings in effect for parts of the Southeast North Carolina and Northeast South Carolina coastline. The system may make landfall before it has enough organization to be a tropical storm or if it organizes sufficiently and becomes named before landfall, it would be named Helene. There is little to no risk of this system becoming a hurricane given its close proximity to land.

Tropical Depression Gordon is out in the Central Atlantic and will not be a threat to land over the next 7 days. The system is in a hostile environment for development but if its able to survive the hostile conditions over the next 2-3 days, Gordon would have an opportunity to strengthen. This will be monitored over the next few days.

Advisories on PTC-8 and Gordon can be seen off the main menu of the VoIP Hurricane Net web site under Atlantic Tropical Products, via our voipwxnet Facebook/X feeds or via the National Hurricane Center (NHC) web site at the following link:

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov

No other areas of tropical development are expected over the next 7 days. The VoIP Hurricane Net Management Team will closely monitor the Tropics. Thanks to all for their continued support of the VoIP Hurricane Net!

73,Rob-KD1CY.
Director of Operations for the VoIP Hurricane Net

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The VoIP Hurricane Net secured formal net operations for Hurricane Francine on Wednesday 9/11/24 at 1100 PM EDT/1000 PM CDT as Francine weakened to a tropical storm. Thanks to AE4WX-Mark, K2DCD-Dennis, and KC5FM-Lloyd for all the net control support and to all stations that checked in during the net and gave reports or just stood by and monitored while the net was conducted.

Additionally, specific thanks goes to N5OZG-Joe Glorioso and the Crescent City Amateur Radio Group along with N4KYS-Joe Humberger, who was stationed at the Orleans Parish EOC for their reports, connectivity to the N5OZG Repeater system and to various tools from the Orleans Parish EOC which provided a number of surface reports during Francine. This was in addition to social media, public safety and online weather station monitoring. A total of 58 reports were submitted to WX4NHC, the Amateur Radio station at the National Hurricane Center, some of which were used in NHC Advisories and Tropical Cyclone Updates. Reports ranged from wind damage to buildings, tree and wire damage reports, coastal storm surge flood, wind measurement, rain gauge and rain related street flooding reports. A complete listing of the reports can be seen in the VoIP Hurricane Net Report Viewer at the following link:

https://www.voipwx.net/qilan/nhcwx/list_VOIP_records1?auth=OK

The Atlantic Tropics are a bit more active and Tropical Depression 7 has formed in the far Eastern Atlantic. We will provide a complete update on the Atlantic Tropics later on Thursday or Friday. Thanks to all for their continued support of the VoIP Hurricane Net!

73,Rob-KD1CY.
Director of Operations for the VoIP Hurricane Net

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**The VoIP Hurricane Net will activate at 9 AM EDT Wednesday Morning and remain active for as long as necessary for Hurricane Francine as it is expected she will strike the Louisiana and Mississippi Gulf Coast Wednesday late morning through Wednesday Night. The net, on *WX_TALK* Echolink conference node: 7203/IRLP 9219 system and other VoIP radio systems via the KC5FM-R node is supporting WX4NHC, the Amateur Radio station at the National Hurricane Center in Miami Florida.**
**WX4NHC will also be active with their Amateur Radio Station as well beginning at 9 AM EDT Wednesday Morning.**

Here are the VoIP Hurricane Net Plans for Hurricane Francine as of Tuesday 9/10/24 at 920 PM EDT:

The VoIP Hurricane Net will activate at 9 AM EDT Wednesday Morning and remain active for as long as necessary for Hurricane Francine as it is expected she will strike the Louisiana and Mississippi Gulf Coast Wednesday late morning through Wednesday Night. The net, on *WX_TALK* Echolink conference node: 7203/IRLP 9219 system and other VoIP radio systems via the KC5FM-R node is supporting WX4NHC, the Amateur Radio station at the National Hurricane Center in Miami Florida. WX4NHC will also be active with their Amateur Radio Station as well beginning at 9 AM EDT Wednesday Morning.

Any Amateur Radio Operators in the affected area of Francine or with relays into the affected area of Francine are asked to provide surface and damage reports into the VoIP Hurricane Net for relay into WX4NHC, the Amateur Radio station at the National Hurricane Center. We appreciate any and all support from Amateur Operators in the affected area or Amateur Operators with relays into the affected area. We are looking for reports based on the National Weather Service SKYWARN Reporting criteria. This can be seen on the VoIP Hurricane Net web site at the following link:
https://voipwx.net/voip-hurricane-net-reporting-criteria

Any pictures or videos of wind damage, river/stream/urban/storm surge flooding etc. can be sent to our voipwxnet Facebook and Twitter feeds or the following email address: pics@nsradio.org and credit will be given to the Amateur Radio Operator, weather spotter or individual that took the photos and media and be shared with the Amateur Radio team at the National Hurricane Center and other agencies and outlets.

Advisories on Francine can be seen off of the Atlantic Tropical Products menu selection on the voipwxnet web site, via our Facebook and Twitter feeds, and off the National Hurricane Center web site via the following link:
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov

Reports as obtained via the VoIP Hurricane Net from Amateur Radio Operators in the affected area, relays from the affected area or from APRS/CWOP Weather Station feeds and other social media outlets can be found at the following link:
https://www.voipwx.net/qilan/nhcwx/list_VOIP_records1?auth=OK

APRS, Winlink, AllStar, Hamshack Hotline resources that can be monitored are as follows:
APRS kc5fm-9
Winlink KC5FM
Allstar 28848
Echolink KC5FM-R 906281
Hamshack Hotline 94032
DMR TGIF 31207
P25 31207
DSTAR XLXOKL C
Yaesu Fusion 31207
M17-SUN module A

Stations outside the affected area that do not have relays into the affected area who would like to listen into the VoIP Hurricane Net can use any of the following systems for listen-only purposes and can connect on either Echolink or IRLP:
*NEW-ENG3* Echolink conference node: 9123/IRLP 9123
*SKY_GATE* Echolink conference node: 868981/IRLP 9252
*KC4QLP-C* Echolink conference node: 290251
*ARERT* Echolink conference node: 902723 (Also bridged to Allstar on Node 273660 and on the YCS311 C4FM Server at http://c4fm.mntrbo.net ID:74)
*FLORIDA* Echolink conference node: 3082

These two streaming audio feeds should be available. Those streaming audio feeds are as follows:
Streaming feed 1: http://74.208.24.77:8000 -Provided by KC4QLP-Bob Carter
Streaming feed 2: http://radio.arert.net:8000/ARERT -Provided by the ARERT conference owners and sysops
Streaming feed 3: https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/38868 -Provided by the ARERT conference owners and sysops

Video streams will be provided by ARERT if they find video feeds from the affected area and will have audio from the hurricane net on it. Those streams are below:
Video stream feed 1: https://www.twitch.tv/pp93news
Video stream feed 2: https://dlive.tv/ARERT
Special thanks to N0VZC-Mike Norrbom and the ARERT sysops for their support of these feeds.

Please note that there could be additional listen only nodes and streaming feeds. If time allows, this info will be updated via the voipwxnet web site and social media feeds.

The VoIP Hurricane Net Management team continues to closely watch Hurricane Francine. Thanks to all for their continued support of the VoIP Hurricane Net!

73,Rob-KD1CY.
Director of Operations for the VoIP Hurricane Net

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Tropical Storm Francine has formed in the Southwest Gulf of Mexico. Francine is expected to intensify into a hurricane with impacts to the Texas and Louisiana Coast Wednesday into Thursday. VoIP Hurricane Net and WX4NHC, the Amateur Radio Station at the National Hurricane Center (NHC) activation is likely some time Wednesday AM/Early PM lasting through late Wednesday Evening/Thursday Morning. Any stations in the affected area or stations with relays into the affected area of Francine are asked to join our net and give reports based on the SKYWARN reporting criteria to support surface reporting into NHC and other partner agencies/entities. We will post a definitive activation plan some time during the day Tuesday. Advisories on Francine can be seen off the main menu of the voipwx.net web site under Atlantic Tropical Products, via the voipwxnet Facebook and Twitter feeds and via the NHC web site at the following link:

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/

The VoIP Hurricane Net Management Team will closely monitor the progress of Francine. Thanks to all for their continued support of the VoIP Hurricane Net!

73,Rob-KD1CY.
Director of Operations for the VoIP Hurricane Net