Storm Chaser Project

This is the Final Project for the COP 2930 Programming II course using Java. We were provided with a data file containing information on all hurricanes from 1960 through 1996 for every six hours while they were at least a Category 1 hurricane. The program reads the file, counts and identifies the storms that are category 3 strength or higher, then reports the first ten of these to occur followed by the top ten strongest storms. Check out the output below.

Example Output

Opening hurricane data file... File opened successfully... Reading file... Number of storms: 326 Hurricanes with category 3 and above: 117 First Ten Storms Begin Date Duration Name Category Maximum Minimum (hours) Winds (mph) Press. (mb) ---------------------------------------------------------------- 196000830 372 DONNA 4 161 932 196000914 84 ETHEL 4 161 981 196100720 120 ANNA 4 114 976 196100902 246 BETSY 4 138 945 196100903 306 CARLA 4 172 931 196100907 240 DEBBIE 4 120 970 196100911 402 ESTHER 4 143 927 196100930 246 FRANCES 4 126 948 196101027 120 HATTIE 5 161 920 196200826 180 ALMA 3 97 986 Top Ten Storms Begin Date Duration Name Category Maximum Minimum (hours) Winds (mph) Press. (mb) ---------------------------------------------------------------- 196101027 120 HATTIE 5 161 920 196900815 192 CAMILLE 5 189 905 198000731 276 ALLEN 5 189 899 198800909 276 GILBERT 5 184 888 198900910 366 HUGO 5 161 918 196000830 372 DONNA 4 161 932 196000914 84 ETHEL 4 161 981 196100720 120 ANNA 4 114 976 196100902 246 BETSY 4 138 945 196100903 306 CARLA 4 172 931