Three 2007 Hurricane Names Retired
The names Dean, Felix, and Noel, three of the most devastating storms of the 2007 Atlantic hurricane season, were retired by members of the 30th Session of the World Meteorological Organization’s Regional Association IV Hurricane Committee (say that three times fast!) during its annual meeting in Orlando, Florida.
Members of the committee, which includes representatives from NOAA’s National Hurricane Center, can remove names associated with storms that cause significant loss of life and property. These names will not be used again because of the wide spread destruction caused by these storms.
The committee issues a list of potential names for tropical cyclones every six years and for 2013, Dean, Felix, and Noel have been replaced with Dorian, Fernand, and Nestor. Since tropical cyclones were first named in 1953, 70 names have been retired, the first two being Carol and Hazel in 1954. Hazel hit North Carolina just south of Wilmington as a category four hurricane, killing 19 people in the state. Check out the track of Hurricane Hazel below.
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They should retire the whole concept of using real people’s names for hurricanes anyway. (Remember Hurricane Barry?)
Instead, they should use made-up, villain-like names – like Darth Cyclone, or Darth Struction, or Yale.