Then that name is replaced on its list with another short distinctive name of the same letter as the name retired.

Hurricane names with q. At that time storms were named according to a phonetic alphabet eg Able Baker Charlie and the names used were the same for each hurricane season. A supplemental list of names A-Z excluding Q U as well as X Y and Z on the Atlantic list will be. If youre in North America you probably came up with Quentin or Queenie Ursula Xavier Yolanda and Zeke.

Instead a strict procedure has been established by an international committee of the World Meteorological Organization. In 1953 to avoid the repetitive use of names the system was revised so that. There are six rotation lists of names that the WMO uses for hurricane naming.

The Queen of Hearts and Ursula are never. 2005 saw the most names retired in one year with five. Home Geologic Hazards Tropical Storm Names.

Hurricane and Tropical Storm names. Every hurricane or Atlantic tropical storm is given a name from a list which is maintained by the National Hurricane Center in the USA. Tropical Storm and Hurricane Names 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2023 2023 2024.

Atlantic-basin hurricanes will no longer be named using Greek letters. So to utilize letters like Q U X Y and Z youd have to be able to come up with at least six names starting with. The list now alternates gendered names.

The name selected comes from one of six rotating alphabetic lists of twenty-one names that are maintained by the World Meteorological Organizations WMO RA IV Hurricane Committee. Fran was the sixth named storm of the 1996 hurricane season. There are also no U X Y.