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- Reason to Name Hurricanes
- History of Hurricane Names
- Retired Hurricane Names Since 1954
- Alternate Name List
The use of easily remembered names greatly reduces confusionwhen two or moretropical storms occur at the same time. For example, one hurricane canbe moving slowly westward in the Gulf of Mexico, while at exactlythe same time another hurricane can be moving rapidly northward alongthe Atlantic coast. In the past, confusion and false rumors have arise...
For several hundred years many hurricanes in the West Indieswere named after the particular saint's day on which the hurricaneoccurred. Ivan R. Tannehill describes in his book "Hurricanes"the major tropical storms of recorded history and mentions manyhurricanes named after saints. For example, there was "HurricaneSanta Ana" which struck Puerto Rico...
The NHC does not control the naming of tropical storms.Instead a strict procedure has been established by an international committee of the World Meteorological Organization. For Atlantic hurricanes, there is a list of names for each of six years.In other words, one list is repeated every sixth year. The only time that there isa change is if a stor...
In the event that more than twenty-one named tropical cyclones occur in the Atlantic basin in a season, or more than twenty-four named tropical cyclones in the eastern North Pacific basin, any additional storms will take names from an alternate list of names approved by the WMO for each basin. This naming convention has been established by the Worl...
Apr 26, 2024 · NHC's Tropical Cyclone Advisory Archive is the complete set of tropical cyclone text advisories and graphic images that were issued during the hurricane season. The tropical cyclone graphics archives are accessed through the Graphics Archive link at the top of the individual storm archive pages (graphics from the mid-2000 season and later are ...
If a storm forms during the off-season, it will take the next name in the list based on the current calendar date. For example, if a tropical cyclone formed on December 28th, it would take the name from the previous season's list of names. If a storm formed in February, it would be named from the subsequent season's list of names.
May 17, 2011 · The Hurricane Research Division collects a variety of data sets on tropical cyclones. Each Atlantic and East Pacific hurricane seasons we conduct a field program in which we collect these data sets from the NOAA aircraft and process them. By clicking on a year from the list below you will go to a window which lists each storm from which we ...
Oct 31, 2023 · The practice of naming hurricanes solely after women came to an end in 1978 when men’s and women’s names were included in the Eastern North Pacific storm lists. In 1979, male and female names were included in lists for the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico.
2010 Season Summary: 2010 Atlantic Tropical Cyclone Tracks. Source: NHC. U.S. Landfalling Hurricanes. The 2010 North Atlantic hurricane season was extremely active with 19 named storms, 12 hurricanes, and five major hurricanes.
