Earth sciences

Hurricane Ivan

Hurricane Ivan was a long-lived Cape Verde hurricane of the 2004 Atlantic season that hit Category 5 three times, devastated Grenada and the Cayman Islands, and struck Alabama, killing 124.

Hurricane Janet

Hurricane Janet was a Category 5 Atlantic hurricane of the 1955 season, the strongest of that season, which devastated Barbados and Grenada and killed 681 people.

Hurricane Jeanne

Hurricane Jeanne was a deadly 2004 Atlantic hurricane that killed more than 3,000 people in Haiti through flooding and then struck central Florida as a Category 3.

Hurricane Joaquin

Hurricane Joaquin was a Category 4 Atlantic hurricane in 2015 that devastated the central and southeastern Bahamas and sank the cargo ship El Faro, killing all 33 aboard.

Hurricane John (1994)

Hurricane John, also known as Typhoon John, was a 1994 Pacific tropical cyclone that crossed the International Dateline and lasted nearly 30 days, forming on 11 August.

Hurricane John (2024)

Hurricane John was a 2024 Pacific hurricane that struck Mexico's southern coast twice in late September 2024, and its name was retired in 2025 after 29 deaths.

Hurricane Katrina

Hurricane Katrina was a powerful Category 5 Atlantic hurricane of the 2005 season that flooded New Orleans when its levees failed, killing at least 1,844 people.

Hurricane Kirk (2024)

Hurricane Kirk was a Category 4 Cabo Verde hurricane of the 2024 Atlantic season, with 150 mph winds, that crossed the Atlantic and hit western Europe in October 2024.

Hurricane Lala was a long-lived 2026 Pacific hurricane that hit Hawaii's Big Island with flooding, sweeping about 100 homes off their foundations before becoming the Central Pacific's first major hurricane of 2026.

Hurricane Laura

Hurricane Laura was a Category 4 Atlantic hurricane that made landfall near Cameron, Louisiana, on August 27, 2020, with 150 mph winds and a 937 millibar pressure.

Hurricane Lenny

Hurricane Lenny was a late-season Category 4 hurricane of November 1999, the first in the Atlantic record to cross the Caribbean from west to east, striking islands' sheltered coasts.

Hurricane Maria

Hurricane Maria was a deadly Category 5 hurricane of 2017 that devastated Dominica and Puerto Rico, causing about $90 billion in damage and an 11-month blackout.

Hurricane Matthew

Hurricane Matthew was a deadly Category 5 Atlantic hurricane of 2016 that struck Haiti, Cuba, and the Bahamas before landfalling in South Carolina, killing 585 people.

Hurricane Melissa

Hurricane Melissa was a Category 5 Atlantic hurricane that struck southwestern Jamaica on October 28, 2025, with 185 mph winds, tying the strongest Atlantic landfall on record.

Hurricane Michael

Hurricane Michael was a Category 5 Atlantic hurricane that made landfall near Mexico Beach, Florida, in October 2018, causing 16 direct US deaths and about $25 billion in damage.

Hurricane Michelle

Hurricane Michelle was a Category 4 Atlantic hurricane that struck central Cuba on 4 November 2001, the strongest there since 1952, killing 17 and causing about $2 billion in damage.

Hurricane Milton

Hurricane Milton was a powerful 2024 Atlantic hurricane that rapidly intensified to Category 5 in the Gulf of Mexico and struck Florida near Siesta Key.

Hurricane Milton tornado outbreak

The Hurricane Milton tornado outbreak was a prolific series of 45 tornadoes across Florida on October 9, 2024, including three EF-3 tornadoes and five deaths near Fort Pierce.

Hurricane Mitch

Hurricane Mitch was a Category 5 Atlantic hurricane of late 1998 that devastated Honduras and Nicaragua, killing roughly 11,000 people, the second-deadliest in Atlantic history.

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.

Hurricane Nicole

Hurricane Nicole was a category 1 hurricane active November 7 to 11, 2022, that hit the Bahamas and Florida near Vero Beach, causing about $1 billion in damage.

Hurricane Odile

Hurricane Odile was a Category 4 Pacific hurricane that hit the southern Baja California peninsula in September 2014, devastating Los Cabos and becoming the region's most destructive hurricane on record.

Hurricane Oscar (2024)

Hurricane Oscar (2024) was a compact Category 1 hurricane that struck the Turks and Caicos Islands, the Bahamas, and eastern Cuba, killing at least seven people.

Hurricane Otis

Hurricane Otis was a Category 5 hurricane that made landfall near Acapulco, Mexico, on October 25, 2023, after one of the fastest intensifications ever recorded, killing at least 52 people.

Hurricane Patricia

Hurricane Patricia was an eastern Pacific hurricane of October 2015 that set the record for tropical cyclone winds, 215 mph, before a Category 5 landfall in Jalisco, Mexico.

Hurricane Pauline

Hurricane Pauline, known in Mexico as Paulina, was a Category 4 Pacific hurricane that struck Mexico's southern coast in October 1997, dropping record rain on Acapulco and killing hundreds.

Hurricane Rafael

Hurricane Rafael was a Category 3 hurricane that made landfall in western Cuba in November 2024, knocking out the national power grid and causing over $1 billion in damage.

Hurricane Research Division

The Hurricane Research Division, founded as the National Hurricane Research Project in 1955, is a NOAA unit in Florida that flies Hurricane Hunter aircraft to improve hurricane forecasting.

Hurricane Rita

Hurricane Rita was a powerful Category 5 Atlantic hurricane of 2005 that devastated southwestern Louisiana and southeastern Texas with an estimated $9.4 billion in damage.