Hurricane Names Selected for the Atlantic Basin
1997/2003
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1998/2004
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1999/2005
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2000/2006
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2001/2007
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2002/2008
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Ana
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Alex
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Arlene
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Alberto
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Allison*
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Arthur
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Bill
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Bonnie
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Bret
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Beryl
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Barry
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Bertha
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Claudette
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Charley
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Cindy
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Chris
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Chantal
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Cesar
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Danny
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Danielle
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Dennis
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Debby
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Dean
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Dolly
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Erika
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Earl
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Emily
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Ernesto
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Erin
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Edouard
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Fabian
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Frances
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Floyd*
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Florence
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Felix
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Fran
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Grace
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Georges*
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Gert
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Gordon
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Gabrielle
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Gustav
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Henri
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Hermine
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Harvey
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Helene
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Humberto
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Horrtense
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Isabel
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Ivan
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Irene
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Isaac
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Iris*
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Isidore
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Juan
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Jeanne
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Jose
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Joyce
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Jerry
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Josephine
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Kate
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Karl
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Katrina
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Keith*
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Karen
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Kyle
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Larry
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Lisa
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Lenny*
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Leslie
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Lorenzo
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Lili
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Mindy
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Mitch*
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Maria
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Michael
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Michelle*
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Marco
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Nicholas
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Nicole
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Nate
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Nadine
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Noel
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Nana
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Odette
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Otto
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Ophelia
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Oscar
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Olga
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Omar
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Peter
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Paula
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Phillippe
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Patty
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Pablo
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Paloma
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Rose
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Richard
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Rita
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Rafael
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Rebekah
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Rene
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Sam
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Shary
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Stan
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Sandy
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Sebastien
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Sally
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Teresa
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Tomas
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Tammy
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Tony
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Tanya
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Teddy
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Victor
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Virginie
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Vince
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Valerie
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Van
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Vicky
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Wanda
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Walter
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Wilma
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William
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Wendy
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Wilfred
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* Hurricanes retired since 1985.
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Below you will find the listing of hurricane names for the Atlantic Ocean for the year 2014. For every year, there is a pre-approved list of tropical storm and hurricane names. These lists have been generated by the National Hurricane Center since 1953. At first, the lists consisted of only female names; however, since 1979, the lists alternate between male and female.
Hurricanes are named alphabetically from the list in chronological order. Thus the first tropical storm or hurricane of the year has a name that begins with "A" and the second is given the name that begins with "B." The lists contain hurricane names that begin from A to W, but exclude names that begin with a "Q" or "U."
There are six lists that continue to rotate. The lists only change when there is a hurricane that is so devastating, the name is retired and another hurricane name replaces it. The 2014 hurricane name list is the same as the 2008 hurricane name list with the exception of three names that were devastating hurricanes in 2008 and thus retired. Gustav was replaced by Gonzalo, Ike was replaced by Isaias, and Paloma was replaced by Paulette.
2014 Hurricane Names
Arthur
Bertha
Cristobal
Dolly
Edouard
Fay
Gonzalo
Hanna
Isaias
Josephine
Kyle
Laura
Marco
Nana
Omar
Paulette
Rene
Sally
Teddy
Vicky
Wilfred
Hurricane Katrina brings disaster to Gulf Coast; Lennox Lions reach out to help
Wednesday, September 7, 2005 10:52 AM EDT
Hurricane Katrina, one of the worst natural disasters in U.S. history, devastated the Gulf Coast of the United States from New Orleans, Louisiana to Mobile, Alabama. Katrina made landfall in the early morning of Aug. 29, 2005. The hurricane is believed to have killed thousands of people, and known to have displaced more than 1 million - a humanitarian crisis on a scale unseen in the U.S. since the American Civil War.
Federal disaster declarations blanketed 90,000 square miles of the United States, an area almost as large as the United Kingdom. The hurricane left an estimated five million people without power, and it may be up to two months before all power is restored. Disaster relief plans are in operation in the affected areas.
Early in the morning of August 30, 2005 and as a direct result of Hurricane Katrina, breaches in three places of the levee system on the Lake Pontchartrain side of New Orleans caused a second and even greater disaster. Heavy flooding covered almost the entire city over a sustained period, forcing the total evacuation of over a million people.
On Sept. 3, 2005 US Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff described the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina as "probably the worst catastrophe, or set of catastrophes" in the country's history, referring to the Hurricane itself plus the flooding of New Orleans.
Hurricane Katrina will be remembered for its vast devastation of the Gulf Coast regions of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. The hurricane will also be remembered for the ineffective planning for hurricane preparedness, as well as the slow response on the part of federal, state and local governments to provide effective search and rescue and safe refuge for the storm's victims.
Around the country, people are reaching out to help the victims of this disaster.
The Richelieu Apartments before Hurricane Camille
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