Jun 23, 2018
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Hurricane season in the United States officially started on June 1. This list of names used by the weather service is provided for your information. Also included are some named storms that were serious enough to have their names deleted.
Atlantic hurricane and tropical storm name lists repeat every six years according to Jonathan Erdman of weather.com, unless one is so destructive and/or deadly that a committee of the World Meteorological Organization votes to retire that name from future lists.
This avoids the use of, say, Katrina, Sandy or Maria to describe a future weak, open-ocean tropical storm.
In 2018, Sara replaces 2012's Sandy. Four names were retired from future use after the 2017 hurricane season.
Here are some other notables from the 2018 list:
Alberto
Alberto in 2012 was a preseason (May) storm off the Southeast coast.
In 1994, Tropical Storm Alberto produced disastrous flooding from southwestern Georgia to the Florida Panhandle.
Beryl
In 2012, Beryl narrowly missed becoming a hurricane when it struck northern Florida and southern Georgia on Memorial Day weekend.
Chris
In 2012, Category 1 Hurricane Chris was the northernmost June Atlantic tropical cyclone to become a hurricane on record, at 39.4 degrees north latitude – roughly the same latitude as Philadelphia.
Debby
The last version of Debby in 2012 was a lollygagging tropical storm in the northern Gulf of Mexico that brought up to 28 inches of rain to northern Florida and a combination of heavy rain and storm surge flooding to the Tampa-St. Petersburg metro area.
Gordon
In 1994, Tropical Storm Gordon unleashed heavy rain for days over Haiti. The ensuing flooding and mudslides claimed 1,122 lives, according to the National Hurricane Center.
Isaac
In 2012, Hurricane Isaac slogged through the northern Gulf Coast, causing an estimated $2.8 billion (2017 dollars) in damage. Storm tides up to 17 feet above ground level swamped Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, and significant surge flooding also swamped the Mississippi Gulf Coast and unprotected areas of Slidell and LaPlace, Louisiana.
Nadine
The last iteration of Nadine was one of the most bizarre paths of any tropical storm or hurricane.
Nadine's meandering three-week-plus odyssey in September and early October 2012 affected the Azores not once, but twice. Nadine strengthened to a hurricane three different times.
Jonathan Erdman is a senior meteorologist at weather.com and has been an incurable weather geek since a tornado narrowly missed his childhood home in Wisconsin at age 7. Follow him on Facebook and Twitter and subscribe to The Weather Channel podcast on Apple, Google Play, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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