Alberto, Beryl, Chris, Debby, Ernesto, Florence , Gordon, Helene, Isaac, Joyce, Kirk, Leslie,
Michael, Nadine, Oscar, Patty, Rafael, Sandy
Since 1953,
Atlantic tropical storms had been named from lists originated by the National Hurricane Center
The six lists
above are used in rotation and recycled every six years, i.e., the 2012 list
will be used again in 2018. 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 retired since
the lists were created.
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 28, 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.
In the event that
more than twenty-one named tropical cyclones occur in the Atlantic basin in a
season, additional storms will take names from the Greek alphabet.
Source: National
Hurricane Center
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