Before group chats and video calls, hurricane forecasters had the Hurricane Hotline. 📞 These dedicated phones helped NWS experts quickly coordinate watches, warnings and storm information when tropical cyclones threatened. Take a trip back to the era of the Hurricane Hotline: #NOAAHeritageWeek ↧ Hurricane hotline phones: A direct line to 20th-century weather for... These Hurricane Hotline phones sit in all of their old beige glory, on display in the lobby of the Weather Forecast Center in College Park, Maryland.