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There are six lists of names which rotate every six years and begin with the letters A—Z used, skipping Q and U, with each name alternating between a male or a female name. [1] The names of significant tropical cyclones are retired from the lists, with a replacement name selected at the next meeting of the Hurricane Committee. [ 1 ]
In 1953, the National Hurricane Center of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration started using female names alphabetically for tropical storms and hurricanes in the Pacific and ...
Ahead of the 2000–01 season, it was decided to start using male names, as well as female names for tropical cyclones developing in the South-West Indian Ocean. [60] During September 2001, RSMC La Réunion proposed that the basin adopt a single circular list of names and that a tropical cyclone have only one name during its lifetime. [61]
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.
Starting in 1979, the WMO began assigning both male and female names to tropical cyclones. [2] This decade featured hurricanes David and Frederic, the first male Atlantic hurricane names to be retired. During this decade, 9 storms were deemed significant enough to have their names retired.
The modern practice began in 1953 when the United States started using female names for storms. The list of names was initially maintained by the NHC before becoming overseen by the World ...
According to the NHC, this was the year that the United States started using female names for storms. That process remained in place until 1978 when male names were added to the list of East ...
The first are the international names assigned to a tropical cyclone by the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) or the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC). The second set of names are local names assigned to a tropical cyclone by the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration. This system often ends up with a ...