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Hurricane Home • Hurricane Basics • Preparing for Hurricanes • Responding to Hurricanes
Names are selected by the World Meteorological Organization’s hurricane committee. Six lists of names are used in rotation, so the 2009 list will be used again in 2015. If a storm had extraordinary impact, its name is retired. Three hurricane names in the Atlantic and one in the eastern North Pacific were retired from the official name rotation because of the deaths and damage they cased in 2008. Gustav, Ike and Paloma in the Atlantic and Alma in the North Pacific will not be used again. The names Hugo, Andrew, Floyd and Isabel also have been retired.
A storm is named when its winds travel counterclockwise and reach 39 mph, tropical storm strength. For more information, visit NOAA’s hurricane naming page.
The 2009 Atlantic hurricane names are:
Ana
Bill
Claudette
Danny
Erika
Fred
Grace
Henri
Ida
Joaquin
Kate
Larry
Mindy
Nicholas
Odette
Peter
Rose
Sam
Teresa
Victor
Wanda