NOAA/NESDIS has been providing tropical cyclone position and intensity estimates using the internationally recognized Dvorak technique for more than 25 years. These estimates continue to be disseminated today to weather agencies of the international community as well as such tropical cyclone warning centers as the Tropical Prediction Center (TPC), the Central Pacific Hurricane Center (CPHC) and the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC). An overview of the NOAA/NESDIS program will be provided with a special emphasis given to a variety of tools used to generate the analyses including objective intensity techniques developed at the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) and an areal tropical rainfall potential derived from microwave data.