Project Atlantic Vortex -List of Hurricane names for the Atlantic-

Since 1953, Atlantic tropical storms have been named from lists originated by the National Hurricane Center. They are now maintained and updated by an international committee of the World Meteorological Organization. The original name lists featured only women's names. In 1979, men's names were introduced and they alternate with the women's names. Six lists are used in rotation. Thus, the 2005 list will be used again in 2011.

The only time that there is a change in the list is if a storm is so deadly or costly that the future use of its name on a different storm would be inappropriate for reasons of sensitivity. If that occurs, then at an annual meeting by the WMO committee (called primarily to discuss many other issues) the offending name is stricken from the list and another name is selected to replace it.

In the event that more than 21 named tropical cyclones occur in the Atlantic basin in a season, additional storms will take names from the Greek alphabet: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, and so on. If a storm forms in the off-season, it will take the next name in the list based on the current calendar date. For example, if a tropical cyclone formed on December 28th, it would take the name from the previous season's list of names. If a storm formed in February, it would be named from the subsequent season's list of names.

2008

Arthur

Gustav

Marco

Teddy

Bertha

Hanna

Nana

Vicky

Cristobal

Ike

Omar

Wilfred

Dolly

Josephine

Paloma

Edouard

Kyle

Rene

Fay

Laura

Sally

2009

Ana

Grace

Mindy

Teresa

Bill

Henri

Nicholas

Victor

Claudette

Ida

Odette

Wanda

Danny

Joaquin

Peter

Erika

Kate

Rose

Fred

Larry

Sam

2010

Alex

Gaston

Matthew

Tomas

Bonnie

Hermine

Nicole

Virginie

Colin

Igor

Otto

Walter

Danielle

Julia

Paula

Earl

Karl

Richard

Fiona

Lisa

Shary