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The name selected comes from one of six rotating alphabetic lists of twenty-one names, that are maintained by the World Meteorological Organization's (WMO) RA IV Hurricane Committee. [1] These lists skip the letters Q, U, X, Y and Z, rotate from year to year and alternate between male and female names. [ 1 ]
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.
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] In 1960 forecasters decided to begin rotating names in a regular sequence and thus four alphabetical lists were established to be repeated every four years. [3]
Here is the complete list of hurricane names for 2024, with the bolded names representing storms that have already taken place this year. Alberto. Beryl. Chris. Debby. Ernesto. Francine. Gordon ...
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 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. The system ...
Lumber and other debris buries the 700 block of Mesquite Street in downtown Corpus Christi after the 1919 hurricane. On the right is the Texas Motor Sales Co. ... Retired names for hurricanes, storms.
The Hurricane Severity Index is a scale that can assign up to 50 points to a system; up to 25 points come from intensity, while the other 25 come from the size of the storm's wind field. [111] The IKE model measures the destructive capability of a tropical cyclone via winds, waves, and surge.