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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.
Only if the storm first forms in the Central Pacific basin will it get a Hawaiian name, such as Hurricane Hone. This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Hawaii still on alert: Tropical Storm ...
Editor's note: This page is a summary of news on Hone for Monday, Aug. 26. For the latest news on Hurricane Gilma, view USA TODAY's story for Tuesday, Aug. 27.. HONOLULU − Residents across ...
As soon as all the names are exhausted from the first list, it moves on to the second, then third, then fourth, then back to the first and so on. Unlike the name list in the Atlantic and Eastern Pacific, the names do not start at "A" every year. Four names have been retired, Iwa of 1982, Iniki of 1992, Paka of 1997 and Ioke of 2006. They were ...
Last year, the winds of Hurricane Dora, which stayed hundreds of miles off the coast of the Hawaii islands, contributed to the deadliest wildfires in the U.S. in over a century.
Hawaii lies in the central Pacific, where about four or five tropical cyclones appear each year, although as many as fifteen have occurred, such as in the 2015 season; rarely do these storms actually affect Hawaii. Tropical cyclone records were not kept before the 1950s. Earlier windstorms that struck Hawaii were not labeled as hurricanes. [1]
A flair of tropical activity over the eastern Pacific Ocean has Hawaii on alert with at least two systems heading in the direction of the islands, AccuWeather meteorologists warn. The first system ...
The hurricane center warned that the island's residents could get anywhere from 6 to 12 inches of rain and an additional 3 to 5 inches in south-facing slopes, which can lead to flooding.