Talking about Retired Hurricane Names 1954-2005

Full Story Retired Hurricane Names 1954-2005

The NHC/TPC does not control the naming of tropical storms. Instead, a list of names has been established by an international committee of the World Meteorological Organization. For Atlantic hurricanes, there is actually one list for each of six years. In other words, one list is repeated every seventh year. The only time that there is a change is if a storm is so deadly or costly that the future use of its name on a different storm would be inappropriate for obvious reasons of sensitivity. If that occurs, then at an annual meeting by the committee (called primarily to discuss many other issues) the offending name is stricken from the list and another name is selected to replace it.

There is an exception to the retirement rule, however. Before 1979, when the first permanent six-year storm name list began, some storm names were simply not used anymore. For example, in 1966, "Fern" was substituted for "Frieda," and no reason was cited.

Below is a list of retired names for the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, and the Gulf of Mexico. There are, however, a great number of destructive storms not included on this list because they occurred before the hurricane naming convention was established in 1950.

List of retired names by year

				1954 Carol Hazel	1955 Connie Diane Ione Janet	1956	1957 Audrey	1958	1959
1960 Donna	1961 Carla Hattie	1962	1963 Flora	1964 Cleo Dora Hilda	1965 Betsy	1966 Inez	1967 Beulah	1968 Edna	1969 Camille
1970 Celia	1971	1972 Agnes	1973	1974 Carmen Fifi	1975 Eloise	1976	1977 Anita	1978	1979 David Frederic
1980 Allen	1981	1982	1983 Alicia	1984	1985 Elena Gloria	1986	1987	1988 Gilbert Joan	1989 Hugo
1990 Diana Klaus	1991 Bob	1992 Andrew	1993	1994	1995 Luis Marilyn Opal Roxanne	1996 Cesar Fran Hortense	1997	1998 Georges Mitch	1999 Floyd Lenny
2000 Keith	2001 Allison Iris Michelle	2002 Isidore Lili	2003 Fabian Isabel Juan	2004 Charley Frances Ivan Jeanne	2005 Dennis Katrina Rita Stan Wilma

Alphabetical list of retired names

Agnes		1972
Alicia		1983
Allen		1980
Allison		2001
Andrew		1992
Anita		1977
Audrey		1957
Betsy		1965
Beulah		1967
Bob		1991
Camille		1969
Carla		1961
Carmen		1974
Carol		1954
Celia		1970
Cesar		1996
Charley		2004
Cleo		1964
Connie		1955
David		1979
Dennis		2005
Diana		1990
Diane		1955
Donna		1960
Dora		1964
Edna		1968
Elena		1985
Eloise		1975
Fabian		2003
Fifi		1974
Flora		1963
Floyd		1999
Fran		1996
Frances		2004
Frederic		1979
Georges		1998
Gilbert		1988
Gloria		1985
Hattie		1961
Hazel		1954
Hilda		1964
Hortense		1996
Hugo		1989
Inez		1966
Ione		1955
Iris		2001
Isabel		2003
Isidore		2002
Ivan		2004
Janet		1955
Jeanne		2004
Joan		1988
Juan		2003
Katrina		2005
Keith		2000
Klaus		1990
Lenny		1999
Lili		2002
Luis		1995
Marilyn		1995
Michelle		2001
Mitch		1998
Opal		1995
Rita		2005
Roxanne		1995
Stan		2005
Wilma		2005