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Atlantic hurricane naming lists
The Atlantic hurricane naming lists are six rotating lists of 21 storm names, maintained by the World Meteorological Organization and reused every six years unless a name is retired.
HURDAT
HURDAT, in its current HURDAT2 form, is the official best-track database of Atlantic tropical and subtropical cyclones maintained by NOAA's National Hurricane Center since 1851.
Hurricane hunters
Hurricane hunters are U.S. Air Force Reserve and NOAA aircrews who fly instrumented aircraft directly into tropical cyclones, measuring a storm's position, structure, and intensity since 1944.
Hurricane name retirement criteria
Hurricane name retirement is the permanent removal of a deadly or destructive storm's name from rotating lists, decided by the WMO's RA IV Hurricane Committee.
List of Atlantic hurricane records
The list of Atlantic hurricane records compiles the most intense, longest-lived, deadliest, and costliest storms in the Atlantic basin since 1851, from Hurricane Wilma to Katrina.
List of Category 4 Atlantic hurricanes
The list of Category 4 Atlantic hurricanes covers Atlantic storms with sustained winds of 130 to 156 mph on the Saffir-Simpson scale, from records beginning in 1851.
List of Category 5 Atlantic hurricanes
The list of Category 5 Atlantic hurricanes covers the 45 storms reaching winds above 157 mph since 1924, with a record four in 2005 and three in 2025.
List of costliest Atlantic hurricanes
The list of costliest Atlantic hurricanes ranks storms by estimated U.S. damage adjusted for inflation, led by Katrina (2005) at $201.3 billion, ahead of Harvey and Ian.
List of Florida hurricanes (2000–present)
A list of hurricanes that struck Florida from 2000 to the present, including the four-storm seasons of 2004 and 2005 and Ian, the state's costliest hurricane in 2022.
List of Mexico hurricanes
The list of Mexico hurricanes, also called Hurricanes in Mexico, covers tropical cyclones striking both coasts, averaging about 4.5 direct impacts yearly, with Hurricane Patricia the strongest on record.
List of Mississippi hurricanes
The list of Mississippi hurricanes covers tropical cyclones that struck the state since records began in 1851, including Hurricane Camille in 1969 and Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
List of New York hurricanes
The list of New York hurricanes covers storms striking New York State, where direct landfalls are rare and include the deadly 1938 Long Island Express and Hurricane Sandy.
List of Queensland tropical cyclones
Tropical cyclones that form in or affect the Coral Sea and the Queensland coast of Australia, including Althea (1971), Larry (2006), Yasi (2011), and Alfred (2025).
List of retired Atlantic hurricane names
The list of retired Atlantic hurricane names covers the 83 storm names, like Katrina and Sandy, that the WMO has removed from reuse because the storms were deadly or destructive.
List of retired Australian region cyclone names
The list of retired Australian region cyclone names covers names permanently retired after severe impacts, from Audrey and Flora in 1964 through Freddy, Gabrielle, and Ilsa in 2023.
List of retired Pacific hurricane names
The list of retired Pacific hurricane names covers deadly eastern and central Pacific storms, from Adele in 1970 to John in 2024, whose names the World Meteorological Organization has withdrawn from reuse.
List of retired Philippine typhoon names
The list of retired Philippine typhoon names covers the 71 names PAGASA has decommissioned and 50 it has delisted since 1963, after deadly or costly storms like Yolanda.
List of South Atlantic tropical and subtropical cyclones
The list of South Atlantic tropical and subtropical cyclones covers storms in a basin where they form rarely, best known for Hurricane Catarina, which struck southern Brazil in March 2004.
List of South Carolina hurricanes
The list of South Carolina hurricanes covers tropical cyclones affecting South Carolina since records began in 1851, including the deadliest storm, the 1893 Sea Islands hurricane.
List of storms named Saudel
Saudel is a western North Pacific typhoon name contributed by Micronesia in 2017, replacing Soudelor; Typhoon Saudel struck the Philippines in 2020 and Japan in 2026.
List of the most intense tropical cyclones
The most intense tropical cyclones on record are ranked by pressure and wind: Typhoon Tip (870 mb, 1979) and Hurricane Patricia (185 kt, 2015) hold the records.
List of Virginia hurricanes
List of Virginia hurricanes covers tropical cyclones affecting the state since 1635; hurricanes strike about every 2.3 years, and Camille in 1969 killed 153 people.
Nuclear strikes on hurricanes
Nuclear strikes on hurricanes, also called nuking a hurricane, is a recurring proposal to destroy hurricanes with bombs, rejected by scientists as ineffective and a radioactive fallout hazard.
PAGASA name lists for tropical cyclones
PAGASA name lists are four rotating sets of 25 Filipino names, each with a 10-name auxiliary list, that PAGASA assigns to tropical cyclones entering the Philippine Area of Responsibility.
Saffir–Simpson scale
The Saffir–Simpson scale, or Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, rates hurricanes 1 to 5 by maximum sustained wind speed, used in the Atlantic and eastern Pacific.
Tropical cyclone naming
Tropical cyclone naming is the practice of assigning short, distinctive names to tropical storms so warnings are unambiguous, with names retired after deadly or costly storms.
Tropical cyclone warnings and watches
Tropical cyclone warnings and watches are official alerts issued when a tropical cyclone threatens a coast, with a watch meaning possible conditions and a warning expected ones.