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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 .
However, before this could happen, a tropical storm was declared significant on January 2, 1955, and was named as Alice. [1] The new set of names were developed and used in 1955 beginning with Brenda continuing through the alphabet to Zelda. [1] For each season before 1960, a new set of names was developed. [1]
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.
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.
What storm comes next after Hurricane Milton? What we learned about how storms are named. How hurricanes and tropical storms get their names: Who names them and why?
It is possible that in any given year there could be more tropical storms than there are names on the list. This actually happened in 2020—there were a total of 30 named storms which was nine ...
Some tropical depressions are named in the Western Pacific, while tropical cyclones must contain a significant amount of gale-force winds before they are named in the Southern Hemisphere. Before it became standard practice to give personal (first) names to tropical cyclones, they were named after places, objects, or the saints' feast days on ...
It was the costliest natural disaster in the history of the U.S. at the time. When the 1992 hurricane season ended, the name Andrew was removed from the list of future names for Atlantic tropical ...