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List of notable tropical cyclones

This is a list of notable tropical cyclones in chronological order, subdivided by basin and reason for notability. It does not include tropical storms which may have caused destructive inland flooding, but whose names are not retired for that reason alone; the sole exception is Tropical Storm Allison, which caused so much flood damage that its name was retired.

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North Atlantic Basin

Retired names

North Atlantic hurricane names are retired due to the notoriety of the storm to which they are attached. See tropical cyclone#Naming_of_tropical_cyclones.

In addition, Charley, Frances, Ivan, and Jeanne of 2004 are likely to be retired by the WMO in early 2005, and should any more major landfalling hurricanes form in 2004 and have their names retired, a record would be broken for most hurricane names retired in one season (currently four, set in 1955 and 1995).

Unnamed but historically significant

Longest-lived Atlantic tropical cyclones

Six storms have lived longer than twenty days:

  1. Hurricane Ginger in September 1971 lasted 27.25 days.
  2. Hurricane Inga in September 1969 lasted 24.75 days.
  3. Hurricane Kyle in October 2002 lasted 22 days.
  4. Hurricane Carrie in September 1957 and Storm 9 of 1893 in September 1893 lasted 20.75 days.
  5. Hurricane Inez in September 1966 lasted 20.25 days.

Source: NOAA [1]

Canadian Hurricanes

Others

  • Tropical Storm Ana - First North Atlantic tropical system ever recorded to develop in April (2003).
  • Tropical Storm Odette - First tropical system to develop in December (2003) in 115 years.
  • Tropical Storm Peter - Second tropical system to develop in December (2003) in 115 years.

South Atlantic

Eastern Pacific

Longest-lived Eastern Pacific Tropical Cyclone

  • Hurricane John 1994

Western Pacific

Named

Unnamed

  • The Great Hong Kong Typhoon , 1937
  • The Typhoon of 1944 , 17-18 December, three US destroyers lost

Australian Hurricanes

Notes

†: a very severe hurricane (category 5 at landfall on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale)

‡: a tropical storm, not a hurricane

See also

Last updated: 01-22-2005 17:34:21