The 2024 Atlantic Hurricane Season List Includes Two New Names

The Hurricane Names To Know In 2024

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The list of 2024 Atlantic hurricane season names includes several that might sound familiar, along with two new ones. One of the names on this year’s list is the oldest surviving name on any of the current rotating lists.

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 it from future lists.

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

In 2024, Francine replaces 2018’s Florence and Milton replaces Michael.

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The name Helene is the oldest still in use, having been on the list since the 1958 hurricane season. Prior to Florence’s retirement in 2019, it was the oldest name, dating to 1953.

Here are some other notables from the 2024 list:

Alberto

• In the last two iterations, Alberto was a preseason (May) storm near the Southeast. In 2018, it brought heavy rain to the South and Midwest.
• 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 inundated Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, and significant surge flooding also swamped the Mississippi Gulf Coast and unprotected areas of Slidell and LaPlace, Louisiana.
• “Isaac” is the oldest surviving “I” name and dates back to 1982. “I” names are the most frequently retired due to their use near the peak of hurricane season.

Leslie

• 2018’s Leslie meandered the North Atlantic for several weeks, then spun too close to the Madeira Islands. Tropical storm warnings were issued there for the first time in history. Leslie also made it to Europe, becoming known as Storm Leslie, and caused damage in Portugal, Spain and France.

Nadine

• The 2012 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.

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