The six lists above are used in rotation and re-cycled every six years ie the 2021 list will be used again in 2027.

Hurricane names with q. In other words the first hurricane of a season was always named Able the second Baker and so on. Satellite image of a hurricane named Fran Hurricane Fran was a large powerful destructive hurricane that made landfall near Cape Fear North Carolina on September 5 1996. In other words one list is repeated every sixth year.

Now come up with five more. The hurricane center however says there arent enough Qnames to rotate every six years so they have eliminated all Q names from the list. In 1953 to avoid the repetitive use of names the system was revised so that.

There are six different lists each containing twenty-one names beginning with every letter of the alphabet except for Q U X Y and Z. The Queen of Hearts and Ursula are never. If youre in North America you probably came up with Quentin or Queenie Ursula Xavier Yolanda and Zeke.

The first hurricane name retired was Carol a category 3 hurricane up to 129 mph winds at its worst when it hit landfall Aug. Atlantic-basin hurricanes will no longer be named using Greek letters. 17 rows These new sets followed the example of the typhoon names and excluded names beginning.

Since 1953 Atlantic tropical storms had been named from lists originated by the National Hurricane Center. Hurricane names in the Atlantic system are named based on six alphabetized 21-name lists excluding names beginning with the letters Q U X Y and Z. Fran was the sixth named storm of the 1996 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. On each of the six lists of names that are rotated every sixth Atlantic hurricane season youll likely never see a Quincy Ursula or Zachary. The last time we dipped into the Greek alphabet was in 2005 when the Atlantic had 27 recorded hurricanes.