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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
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.
[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]
Hurricane Joyce was the fourteenth tropical cyclone, tenth named storm, and sixth hurricane of the 2000 Atlantic hurricane season. A Cape Verde-type storm forming from a tropical wave in late September, Joyce headed generally westward and eventually intensified into a hurricane.
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
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 ...
Before the formal start of naming, tropical cyclones were often named after places, objects, or saints' feast days on which they occurred. The credit for the first usage of personal names for weather systems is generally given to the Queensland Government meteorologist Clement Wragge, who named systems between 1887 and 1907.
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.