The 2018 Atlantic Hurricane Season Names List Includes One New Name

The 2018 Atlantic hurricane season list of names includes several that might sound familiar, along with one new name.

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Atlantic hurricane and tropical storm name lists repeat every six years, unless one is so destructive and/or deadly that a committee of the World Meteorological Organization votes to retire that name from future lists.

This avoids the use of, say, Katrina, Sandy or Maria to describe a future weak, open-ocean tropical storm.

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Here are some other notables from the 2018 list:

Alberto

• Alberto in 2012 was a preseason (May) storm off the Southeast coast.
• In 1994, Tropical Storm Alberto produced disastrous flooding from southwestern Georgia to the Florida Panhandle.

Beryl

• In 2012, Beryl narrowly missed becoming a hurricane when it struck northern Florida and southern Georgia on Memorial Day weekend.

Chris

• In 2012, Category 1 Hurricane Chris was the northernmost June Atlantic tropical cyclone to become a hurricane on record, at 39.4 degrees north latitude – roughly the same latitude as Philadelphia.

Debby

• The last version of Debby in 2012 was a lollygagging tropical storm in the northern Gulf of Mexico that brought up to 28 inches of rain to northern Florida and a combination of heavy rain and storm surge flooding to the Tampa-St. Petersburg metro area.

Gordon

• In 1994, Tropical Storm Gordon unleashed heavy rain for days over Haiti. The ensuing flooding and mudslides claimed 1,122 lives, according to the National Hurricane Center.

Isaac

• In 2012, Hurricane Isaac slogged through the northern Gulf Coast, causing an estimated $2.8 billion (2017 dollars) in damage. Storm tides up to 17 feet above ground level swamped Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, and significant surge flooding also swamped the Mississippi Gulf Coast and unprotected areas of Slidell and LaPlace, Louisiana.

Nadine

• The last iteration of Nadine was one of the most bizarre paths of any tropical storm or hurricane.
• Nadine's meandering three-week-plus odyssey in September and early October 2012 affected the Azores not once, but twice. Nadine strengthened to a hurricane three different times.

Jonathan Erdman is a senior meteorologist at weather.com and has been an incurable weather geek since a tornado narrowly missed his childhood home in Wisconsin at age 7. Follow him on Facebook and Twitter and subscribe to The Weather Channel podcast on Apple, Google Play, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts.