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FOX 35 Orlando Weather Authority
Hurricane Guide |
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2008 Names |
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Arthur
Bertha
Cristobal
Dolly
Edouard
Fay
Gustav
Hanna
Ike
Josephine
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Kyle
Laura
Marco
Nana
Omar
Paloma
Rene
Sally
Teddy
Vicky
Wilfred |
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National Hurricane Center Naming |
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Experience shows that the use of short, distinctive given names in written
as well as spoken communications is quicker and less subject to error than
the older more cumbersome latitude-longitude identification methods. These
advantages are especially important in exchanging detailed storm information
between hundreds of widely scattered stations, coastal bases, and ships at
sea.
Since 1953, Atlantic tropical storms have been named from lists originated
by the National Hurricane Center. They are now maintained and updated by an
international committee of the
World Meteorological Organization.
The original name lists featured only women's names. In 1979, men's names were
introduced and they alternate with the women's names. Six lists are used in rotation.
Thus, the 2006 list will be used again in 2012. Here is more information about the
history of naming hurricanes.
The only time that there is a change in the list is if a storm is so deadly
or costly that the future use of its name on a different storm would be
inappropriate for reasons of sensitivity. If that occurs, then at an annual
meeting by the WMO committee (called primarily to discuss many other issues)
the offending name is stricken from the list and another name is selected to
replace it.
Several names have been changed since the lists were created. For example, on
the 2004 list (which will be used again in 2010), Gaston has replaced Georges
and Matthew has replaced Mitch. On the 2006 list, Kirk has replaced Keith. Here
is more information about
retired hurricane names.
In the event that more than 21 named tropical cyclones occur in the Atlantic basin in a season,
additional storms will take names from the Greek alphabet:
Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, and so on. If a storm forms in the off-season, it will take
the next name in the list based on the current calendar date. For example, if a
tropical cyclone formed on December 28th, it would take the name from the previous
season's list of names. If a storm formed in February, it would be named from the
subsequent season's list of names. |
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