Hurricane! is a Nova

NOVA (TV series)

Nova is a popular science television series from the U.S. produced by WGBH Boston. It can be seen on the Public Broadcasting Service in the United States, and in more than 100 other countries...

episode that aired on November 7, 1989 on PBS

Public Broadcasting Service

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. The episode describes the fury of a hurricane and the history of hurricane forecasting. The episode features footage of Hurricane Camille

Hurricane Camille

Hurricane Camille was the third and strongest tropical cyclone and second hurricane during the 1969 Atlantic hurricane season. The second of three catastrophic Category 5 hurricanes to make landfall in the United States during the 20th century , which it did near the mouth of the Mississippi River...

 of 1969 and Hurricane Gilbert

Hurricane Gilbert

Hurricane Gilbert was an extremely powerful Cape Verde-type hurricane that formed during the 1988 Atlantic hurricane season and created widespread destruction in the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico. It is the second most intense hurricane ever observed in the Atlantic basin behind only...

 of 1988 and behind the scenes footage at the National Hurricane Center

National Hurricane Center

The National Hurricane Center , located at Florida International University in Miami, Florida, is the division of the National Weather Service responsible for tracking and predicting weather systems within the tropics between the Prime Meridian and the 140th meridian west poleward to the 30th...

 as forecasters tracked Hurricane Gilbert from its formation to its landfall in northern Mexico

Mexico

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. Meteorologists, Hugh Willoughby, Bob Sheets

Bob Sheets

Robert C. Sheets is a meteorologist who served as the director of the National Hurricane Center from 1987 to 1995. He is well remembered for numerous interviews given from the Hurricane Center during Hurricane Andrew in 1992. Sheets also was a member and eventual director in Project Storm Fury,...

 (then director of the National Hurricane Center

National Hurricane Center

The National Hurricane Center , located at Florida International University in Miami, Florida, is the division of the National Weather Service responsible for tracking and predicting weather systems within the tropics between the Prime Meridian and the 140th meridian west poleward to the 30th...

) and Jeff Masters were shown in the episode. The episode was released on VHS

VHS

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 home video under the same episode title and distributed by WGBH

WGBH-TV

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 Boston video. In 2004, the Nova episode was released on DVD

DVD

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 and featured a different cover picture and title style. In 1997, UAV Corp.

UAV Corp.

UAV Corporation or commonly known as UAV Entertainment was an entertainment company founded in 1984 as a small local company located in Fort Mill, South Carolina. Its headquarters were located in Fort Mill, South Carolina, before they were in Charlotte, North Carolina.On June 14, 2006, UAV Corp...

 also distributed the Nova episode under the title Deadly Hurricanes which contains additional footage of Hurricane Andrew

Hurricane Andrew

Hurricane Andrew was the third Category 5 hurricane to make landfall in the United States, after the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 and Hurricane Camille in 1969. Andrew was the first named storm and only major hurricane of the otherwise inactive 1992 Atlantic hurricane season...

 and Hurricane Iniki

Hurricane Iniki

Hurricane Iniki was the most powerful hurricane to strike the U.S. state of Hawaii in recorded history. Forming on September 5 during the strong El Niño of 1991–1994, Iniki was one of eleven Central Pacific tropical cyclones during the 1992 season. It attained tropical storm status on...

 of 1992. The UAV version of the episode has since been discontinued.

Quotes

• "It's one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen"- Hugh Willoughby.
• "Even if we could issue the perfect forecast, it does no good unless you motivate people to take the right action."- Bob Sheets.

DVD Funding

• Merck
  Merck
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• Lockheed
• Corporation For Public Broadcasting
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• "The financial support of viewers like you."