page_title: Regional Specialized Meteorological Centre
section_title: Tropical cyclones
hierarchical_section_title: Regional Specialized Meteorological Centre / Tropical cyclones
caption_attribution_description: English: The World Meteorological Organization Tropical Cyclone Programme is tasked to establish national and regionally coordinated systems to ensure that the loss of life and damage caused by tropical cyclones are reduced to a minimum. The following table is a list of the Regional Specialized Meteorology Centers (RSMC) and Tropical Cyclone Warning Centers (TCWC) participating in the WMO Tropical Cyclone Programme. RegionDescriptionCenters (RSMC and TCWC)I-IIAtlantic and Eastern PacificU.S. National Hurricane Center (RSMC Miami)IIICentral PacificU.S. Central Pacific Hurricane Center (RSMC Honolulu)IVNorthwest PacificJapan Meteorological Agency (RSMC Tokyo)VNorth Indian OceanIndia Meteorological Department (RSMC New Delhi)VISouthwest Indian OceanMétéo France (RSMC La Réunion)VII-XISouthwest Pacific and Southeast Indian OceanVII: Australian Bureau of Meteorology (TCWC Perth) VIII: Indonesian Agency for Meteorology (TCWC Jakarta) IX: Australian Bureau of Meteorology (TCWC Darwin) X: Papua New Guinea (TCWC Port Moresby) XI: Australian Bureau of Meteorology (TCWC Brisbane)XII-XIIISouth PacificXII: Fiji Meteorological Service (RSMC Nadi) XIII: Meteorological Service of New Zealand, Ltd. (TCWC Wellington)
context_page_description: A Regional Specialized Meteorological Centre is responsible for the distribution of information, advisories, and warnings regarding the specific program they have a part of, agreed by consensus at the World Meteorological Organization as part of the World Weather Watch.
context_section_description: A Tropical Cyclone Regional Specialized Meteorological Centre is responsible for detecting tropical cyclones in its designated area of responsibility, and for providing basic information about the systems present and their forecast position, movement and intensity. There are six such meteorological centres in addition to six regional Tropical Cyclone Warning Centres (TCWCs) that all provide public tropical cyclone advisory messages and assist other National Meteorological and Hydrological Services in preparing alerts and warnings for their respective countries. In addition, all of the centres are responsible for naming tropical cyclones when they develop into or become equivalent to tropical storms in their area of responsibility, with the exceptions of RSMC La Reunion and TCWC Wellington.
  The United States National Hurricane Center (NHC/RSMC Miami) is responsible for the tracking of tropical cyclones within the Atlantic Ocean and Eastern Pacific basins.
  The United States Central Pacific Hurricane Center (CPHC/RSMC Honolulu) provides satellite fixes for the Western Pacific and Southern Pacific basins and tropical cyclone warnings for the Central Pacific basin and in the Eastern Pacific basin if the NHC is too busy with the Atlantic basin or is incapacitated in any way.
  The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA/RSMC Tokyo) is responsible for issuing advisories within the Western Pacific basin.
  The India Meteorological Department (IMD/RSMC New Delhi) is responsible for tracking tropical cyclones within the North Indian Ocean.
  Météo-France La Reunion (MFR/RSMC La Reunion) is responsible for the issuing advisories and tracking of tropical cyclones.
  Within the Australian region five tropical cyclone warning centres are responsible for the naming and tracking of tropical cyclones. Three of these centres are run by and located within the Australian Bureau of Meteorology regional offices in Perth, Darwin and Brisbane and use one national list of names. The other two tropical cyclone warning centres in the Australian region are located in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea and Jakarta, Indonesia.
  Within the Southern Pacific the Fiji Meteorological Service (FMS, RSMC Nadi) is responsible for the naming of tropical cyclones for the whole basin, however, the Meteorological Service of New Zealand (MetService, TCWC Wellington) issues forecasts for the area below 25°S.
caption: The tropical cyclone centres and regions
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