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The costliest storms were hurricanes Katrina in August 2005 and Harvey in August 2017; each storm struck the U.S. Gulf Coast, causing $125 billion in damage, much of it from flooding. [nb 1] The most recent names to be retired for an Atlantic hurricane were Fiona and Ian .
- 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...
Mar 30, 2023 · Retired Hurricane Names: The 96 Most Notorious Atlantic Storms Since 1954. By Jonathan Erdman March 30, 2023. ... including a four-year streak from 2001 through 2004 (Iris, Isidore, Isabel and ...
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Jul 21, 2019 · The names used each year for the storms in the Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, and the Caribbean come from six lists of 21 names, established by the World Meteorological Society, that rotate in a cycle in a system that dates back to the 1950s, though the naming convention has evolved over time. For example, the six-year cycle of permanent lists ...
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Dec 28, 2023 · Of course, there were a great number of storms further back in history which occured, but the hurricane naming system was not established until 1950. Years. Names. 1954. Carol, Hazel. 1955. Connie, Diane, Ione, Janet. 1956. 1957.
Stormfax® Retired Hurricane Names. Retired Atlantic Hurricane Names : 1954 Carol Hazel: 1955 Connie Diane Ione Janet: 1956 : 1957 Audrey: 1958 : 1959 : 1960 Donna ...
Before 1979, when the first permanent six-year storm name list began, some storm names were simply not used anymore. For example, in 1966, “Fern” was substituted for “Frieda,” and no reason was cited. Below is a list of Atlantic Ocean retired names, the years the hurricanes occurred, and the areas they affected.
