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A replacement name is then submitted to the next World Meteorological Organization's RA V Tropical Cyclone Committee meeting. [6] The name of a tropical cyclone is determined by using Lists A–D in order, without regard to the year before restarting with List A. [6] List E contains names that will replace names on Lists A–D when needed. [6]
During September 2001, RSMC La Réunion proposed that the basin adopt a single circular list of names and that a tropical cyclone have only one name during its lifetime. [61] However, both of these proposals were rejected at the fifteenth session of the RA I Tropical Cyclone Committee for the South-West Indian Ocean during September 2001. [61]
[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]
If a tropical system develops over the central Pacific, it is given a name from a separate list comprised of traditional Hawaiian names. With 20 to 25 named tropical systems in the forecast for ...
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.
Note: † indicates the name was retired after that usage in the respective basin. Nada (2016) – made landfall in Tamil Nadu, near Karaikal, as a depression that killed at least 12 people. Nadia (1994) – a powerful tropical cyclone that struck both Madagascar and Mozambique in March 1994. Nadine; 1948 – never affected land.
The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season was so active that forecasters resorted to naming storms with letters from the Greek alphabet for only the second time in history. Turns out, it was the final ...
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 ...