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Storms are named for historical reasons to avoid confusion when communicating with the public, as more than one storm can exist at a time. Names are drawn in order from predetermined lists. For tropical cyclones, names are assigned when a system has one-, three-, or ten-minute winds of more than 65 km/h (40 mph).
The original WMO policy of naming storms with Greek letters stated that if a storm was destructive enough to warrant retirement of the name, the Greek letter would be used again, but the name, with the year after it, would be included in the list of retired names; for example, "Alpha (2005)" would be listed under retired names, but Alpha could ...
The 1935 Labor Day hurricane was the most intense hurricane to make landfall on the country, having struck the Florida Keys with a pressure of 892 mbar.It was one of only seven hurricanes to move ashore as a Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane scale; the others were "Okeechobee" in 1928, Karen in 1962, Camille in 1969, Andrew in 1992, Michael in 2018, and Yutu in 2018, which ...
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 ...
This is a cumulative list of previously used tropical cyclone (tropical storm and hurricane) names that have been permanently removed from reuse in the North Atlantic basin. As of 2024, 96 storm names have been retired. [1]
Since 1953, tropical storms that originate in the Atlantic Ocean have been identified by name. There are six lists of 21 names each, and the lists are rotated so that the 2024 list of names will ...
List of Category 3 Atlantic hurricanes; List of Category 4 Atlantic hurricanes; List of Category 5 Atlantic hurricanes; 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 ...
Storms are named for historical reasons to avoid confusion when communicating with the public, as more than one storm can exist at a time. Names are drawn in order from predetermined lists. For tropical cyclones, names are assigned when a system has one-, three-, or ten-minute winds of more than 65 km/h (40 mph).