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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]
This category contains the sub-articles comprising the list of named storms. Pages in category "Lists of tropical cyclones by name" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total.
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.
Hurricane names: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association's hurricane list includes 147 names. Find out all the names on the list for 2024.
The following is a list of tropical cyclones by year. Since the year 957, there have been at least 12,791 recorded tropical or subtropical cyclones in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans, which are known as basins. Collectively, tropical cyclones caused more than US$1.2 trillion in damage, unadjusted for inflation, and have killed more ...
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.
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 ...