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When a major hurricane impacts a country that country can request the name of the hurricane be “retired” through the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in Geneva Switzerland.<\/p>\n
Retiring a name actually means that it will not be reused for at least 10 years, to preserve historic references, legal actions, insurance claims, and other activities related to that storm.\u00a0 Retiring hurricane names therefore helps avoid public confusion with another storm of the same name.<\/p>\n
Below is a list of retired hurricane names for the Atlantic, the years the hurricanes occurred, and the areas affected since 1950 when the current naming convention was established:<\/p>\n
Agnes (1972): Florida, Northeast U.S.
\nAlicia (1983): North Texas
\nAllen (1980): Antilles, Mexico, South Texas
\nAllison (2001): northeast Texas
\nAndrew (1992): Bahamas, South Florida, Louisiana
\nAnita (1977): Mexico
\nAudrey (1957): Louisiana, North Texas
\nBetsy (1965): Bahamas, Southeast Florida, Southeast Louisiana
\nBeulah (1967): Antilles, Mexico, South Texas
\nBob (1991): North Carolina & Northeast U.S.
\nCamille (1969): Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama
\nCarla (1961): Texas
\nCarmen (1974): Mexico, Central Louisiana
\nCarol (1954): Northeast U.S.
\nCesar (1996): Honduras
\nCelia (1970): South Texas
\nCharley (2004): Jamaica, western Cuba, Florida
\nCleo (1964): Lesser Antilles, Haiti, Cuba, Southeast Florida
\nConnie (1955): North Carolina
\nDavid (1979): Lesser Antilles, Hispa\u00f1ola, Florida and Eastern U.S.
\nDennis (2005): Alabama, Florida
\nDiana (1990): Mexico
\nDiane (1955): Mid-Atlantic U.S. & Northeast U.S.
\nDonna (1960): Bahamas, Florida and Eastern U.S.
\nDora (1964): Northeast Florida
\nEdna (1968)
\nElena (1985): Mississippi, Alabama, Western Florida
\nEloise (1975): Antilles, Northwest Florida, Alabama
\nFabian (2003): Bermuda
\nFifi (1974): Yucatan Peninsula, Louisiana
\nFlora (1963): Haiti, Cuba
\nFloyd (1999): North Carolina, eastern seaboard
\nFran (1996): North Carolina
\nFrances (2004): Florida
\nFrederic (1979): Alabama and Mississippi
\nGeorges (1998): Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Cuba, Mississippi
\nGilbert (1988): Lesser Antilles, Jamaica, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico
\nGloria (1985): North Carolina, Northeast U.S.
\nHattie (1961): Belize, Guatemala
\nHazel (1954): Antilles, North and South Carolina
\nHilda (1964): Louisiana
\nHortense (1996)
\nHugo (1989): Antilles, South Carolina
\nInez (1966): Lesser Antilles, Hispanola, Cuba, Florida Keys, Mexico
\nIone (1955): North Carolina
\nIris (2001): Belize, Guatemala
\nIsabel (2003): North Carolina
\nIsidore (2002): Cuba, northern Yucatan Peninsula, Louisiana
\nIvan (2004): Lesser Antilles, Jamaica, western Cuba, Alabama, western Florida panhandle
\nJanet (1955): Lesser Antilles, Belize, Mexico
\nJeanne (2004): Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Haiti, northern Bahamas, Florida
\nJoan (1988): Curacao, Venezuela, Colombia, Nicaragua (Crossed into the Pacific and became Miriam)
\nJuan (2003): Nova Scotia
\nKatrina (2005): South Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama
\nKeith (2000): Belize, Mexico
\nKlaus (1990): Martinique
\nLenny (1999): Antilles
\nLili (2002): Jamaica, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Louisiana
\nLuis (1995)
\nMarilyn (1995): Bermuda
\nMichelle (2001): Central America, Cuba, northern Bahamas
\nMitch (1998): Central America, Nicaragua, Honduras
\nOpal (1995): Florida Panhandle
\nRita (2005): northeast Texas, western Louisiana
\nRoxanne (1995): Yucatan Peninsula
\nStan (2005): Mexico
\nWilma (2005): northeast Yucatan Peninsula, Florida<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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