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Tropical cyclones are named for historical reasons and so as to avoid confusion when communicating with the public, as more than one tropical cyclone can exist at a time. Names are drawn in order from predetermined lists. They are usually assigned to tropical cyclones with one-, three-, or ten-minute windspeeds of at least 65 km/h (40 mph).
The practice of using names to identify tropical cyclones goes back several centuries, with storms named after places, saints or things they hit before the formal start of naming in each basin. Examples of such names are the 1928 Okeechobee hurricane (also known as the "San Felipe II" hurricane) and the 1938 New England hurricane .
Before the formal start of naming, tropical cyclones were often named after places, objects, or saints' feast days on which they occurred. The credit for the first usage of personal names for weather systems is generally given to the Queensland Government meteorologist Clement Wragge, who named systems between 1887 and 1907.
The WMO states that no hurricane is named after any person nor any preference in alphabetical order. “The tropical cyclone/hurricane names selected are those that are familiar to the people in ...
October 10–11, 1804: The 1804 Snow hurricane unusually blanketed parts of Canada with snow after striking New England. August 23, 1863: A Category 1 hurricane hit Nova Scotia just before losing tropical characteristics. September 23–24, 1866: A hurricane hit Newfoundland after weakening from a Category 2 hurricane.
Tropical cyclones are named to avoid confusion with the public and streamline communications, as more than one tropical cyclone can exist at a time. Names are drawn in order from predetermined lists, [1] and are usually assigned to tropical cyclones with one-, three- or ten-minute windspeeds of more than 65 km/h (40 mph). However, standards ...
1984 – Category 4 severe tropical cyclone (Australian scale), made landfall near Roebourne, Western Australia. 1995† – Category 4 severe tropical cyclone (Australian scale), made landfall in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Choi-wan; 2003 – a Category 3 typhoon that stayed off the Japanese coast.
1963 – was downgraded after the fact; it never warranted a name. 1964 – affected Madagascar. 1965† – a weak east Pacific tropical cyclone that caused heavy damage in Mexico. 1979 – a powerful tropical cyclone caused $41 million in damage, among the costliest Western Australian cyclones.