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The decade featured Hurricane Andrew, which at the time was the costliest hurricane on record, and also Hurricane Mitch, which is considered to be the deadliest tropical cyclone to have its name retired, killing over 11,000 people in Central America. A total of 15 names were retired in this decade, seven during the 1995 and 1996 seasons.
A total of 96 names have now been retired from the Atlantic list since 1953. Hurricanes have been given various types of names dating back to the 1800s. But in 1953, a new international phonetic ...
Before 1953, tropical storms and hurricanes were tracked by year and the order in which they occurred during that year, not by names. At first, the United States only used female names for storms.
List of retired Pacific hurricane names; List of retired Pacific typhoon names; List of retired Philippine typhoon names; List of retired South Pacific cyclone names; In addition, one South Atlantic tropical cyclone name, Kamby, was retired before being used, for unknown reasons, and was replaced by Kurumí, which was used in 2020.
[48] [49] Four sets of tropical cyclone names are rotated annually with typhoon names stricken from the list should they do more than 1 billion pesos worth of damage to the Philippines and/or cause 300 or more deaths. [50] [51] Should the list of names for a given year prove insufficient, names are taken from an auxiliary list. [50]
On Wednesday, the organization's hurricane committee announced it retired Fiona and Ian from the rotating lists of Atlantic tropical cyclone names. Both Fiona and Ian developed in September 2022 ...
Ever wonder how they come up with hurricane names? Here's how they're picked, why some hurricane names are retired, and a hurricane names list for 2023.
They also decided that the new lists of hurricane names would start to be used in 1978 which was a year earlier than the Atlantic. [11] Since 1978 the same lists of names have been used, with names of significant tropical cyclones removed from the lists and replaced with new names. [8]