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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.
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| 2007 |
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Andrea
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Gabrielle
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Melissa
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Tanya
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Barry
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Humberto
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Noel
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Van
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Chantal
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Ingrid
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Olga
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Wendy
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Dean
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Jerry
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Pablo
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Erin
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Karen
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Rebekah
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Felix
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Lorenzo
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Sebastien
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| 2008 |
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Arthur
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Gustav
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Marco
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Teddy
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Bertha
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Hanna
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Nana
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Vicky
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Cristobal
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Ike
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Omar
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Wilfred
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Dolly
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Josephine
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Paloma
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Edouard
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Kyle
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Rene
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Fay
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Laura
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Sally
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| 2009 |
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Ana
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Grace
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Mindy
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Teresa
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Bill
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Henri
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Nicholas
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Victor
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Claudette
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Ida
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Odette
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Wanda
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Danny
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Joaquin
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Peter
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Erika
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Kate
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Rose
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Fred
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Larry
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Sam
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| 2010 |
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Alex
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Gaston
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Matthew
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Tomas
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Bonnie
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Hermine
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Nicole
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Virginie
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Colin
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Igor
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Otto
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Walter
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Danielle
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Julia
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Paula
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Earl
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Karl
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Richard
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Fiona
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Lisa
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Shary
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| 1 |
Alpha |
9 |
Iota |
17 |
Rho |
| 2 |
Beta |
10 |
Kappa |
18 |
Sigma |
| 3 |
Gamma |
11 |
Lambda |
19 |
Tau |
| 4 |
Delta |
12 |
Mu |
20 |
Upsilon |
| 5 |
Epsilon |
13 |
Nu |
21 |
Phi |
| 6 |
Zeta |
14 |
Xi |
22 |
Chi |
| 7 |
Eta |
15 |
Omicron |
23 |
Psi |
| 8 |
Theta |
16 |
Pi |
24 |
Omega |
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