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The name Joyce has been used for eight tropical cyclones worldwide: four in the Atlantic Ocean, three in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, and one in the Australian region. In the Atlantic: Hurricane Joyce (2000) – Category 1 hurricane that approached the Windward Islands; Tropical Storm Joyce (2012) – weak storm that did not affect land
[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]
Six tropical cyclone names have been retired so far in the 2020s. Hurricane Laura was the costliest hurricane of the 2020 season, causing over $23 billion in damages, much of which occurred along the southwestern Louisiana coast as a result of its 18 ft (5.5 m) storm surge.
Hurricane names: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association's hurricane list includes 147 names. Find out all the names on the list for 2024.
Tropical cyclones are non-frontal, low-pressure systems that develop, within an environment of warm sea surface temperatures and little vertical wind shear aloft. [1] Within the Australian region, names are assigned from three pre-determined lists, to such systems, once they reach or exceed ten–minute sustained wind speeds of 65 km/h (40 mph), near the center, by either the Australian Bureau ...
The following list of names was used for named storms that formed in the North Atlantic in 2000. [90] [91] This was the same list used in the 1994 season. [92] [93] Storms were named Joyce, Leslie, Michael, and Nadine for the first time this year.
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 ...
List of costliest Atlantic hurricanes; List of deadliest Atlantic hurricanes; List of off-season Atlantic hurricanes; List of retired Atlantic hurricane names; List of tropical cyclone-spawned tornadoes; List of wettest tropical cyclones. List of wettest tropical cyclones by country; List of wettest tropical cyclones in the United States