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For more than two weeks, NOAA’s National Hurricane Center issued forecasts and warnings on what would become the first hurricane to strike Florida in nearly 11 years and affect the U.S. East Coast over the Labor Day weekend. Beginning as a tropical wave off the African coast, it eventually became Hurricane Hermine. Here’s a look behind the scenes at the National Hurricane Center during Hermine.