Tropical Cyclone Programme

1972 WMO establishes the Tropical Cyclone Project in response to a call for international action to mitigate the harmful effects of tropical cyclones brought about by the disastrous 1970 Bangladesh storm. At the time together with ESCAP, it was co-sponsoring and providing support for the work of two inter- governmental regional organizations, the Typhoon Committee and the Panel on Tropical Cyclones.
1974 A working group of WMO's Regional Association for Africa (RA I)-the Tropical Cyclone Committee for the South-West Indian Ocean was set up.
1978 A second working group, that of WMO's Regional Association for North America (RA IV) - the Hurricane Committee - was established.
1979 WMO's Eighth Congress decided to upgrade and widen the scope of the TCP project to become the WMO's Tropical Cyclone Programme in 1980.
1981 A Plan of Action for the TCP was drawn up, approved by the WMO Executive Council and published, as requested by Congress.
1985 A third working group, this time of WMO's Regional Association for South-West Pacific (RA V)-the Tropical Cyclone Committee for the South Pacific and South-East Indian Ocean-was established.
1994 The TCP office in the WMO Secretariat was upgraded to become the Tropical Cyclone Programme Division, while remaining as a part of the WWW Department.

2008 Under resturcturing of the WMO Secretariat, TCP Division was shifted as a part of the Weather and Disaster Risk Reduction Services Department.