How do they come up with the Hurricane/Tropical Storm names lists every year?

Question

Do they base it off of ex's? LOL. No seriously, how do they pick and choose?

Answer 1

Atlantic storms  6 lists  21 names each   if more than 21 storms then Greek letters are used.  Lists recycle every 6 yrs.

Pacific storms  6 lists  24 names each  Lists recyle every 6 yrs.

Some names are permanently removed if the storm caused lots of fatalities for both sites.

Answer 2

hold on ill find it for you...

and here it is

A brief history on the naming of Tropical Storms and Hurricanes.

Spanish settlers were the first to name hurricanes, using the name of the Saint on whose day the storm hit. If a storm struck on the same day in a later year it was called the second. For example San Felipe the Second was the hurricane that eventually hit Florida in 1928 and pushed the water out of Lake Okeechobee drowning nearly 2,000.

A little more than one-hundred years ago an Australian forecaster was the first to use proper names for storms, giving them names of political figures he disliked.

During World War II U.S. military forecasters unofficially named storms after their wives and girlfriends as they tracked systems in the Pacific Ocean.

Starting in 1950 storms in the Atlantic, Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico were named using the phonetic alphabet, Able, Baker, Charlie, etc. That lasted three years. In 1953 a list containing female names was used. In 1979 male names were used for every other storm.

There are six lists of names used in rotation.

The names of noteworthy storms that caused great damage or deaths are retired and replaced on the lists. For example Charley was retired from the 2004 list and when the list comes up again in 2010, that name will be replaced by Colin.

The name used the most is Arlene, nine times so far, and due again in 2011. Alice is the only name listed twice in the same year.

Alice was the first name used for 1953, 1954, and 1955.

In early January of 1955 the name was used for a storm that was traced back to a disturbance that started on December 30, 1954, so it also was counted as a 1954 storm. The next storm in the 1955 season was named Brenda.

Information on storms and their names came from the National Hurricane Center and

you can go to the website and see what year they actually used some of the names...

Answer 3

Well from my experience in fl i also asked something similar and what they do is start with the letter a and so on then b then c you no well then they come up with some kind of personality for the time the year and we it's headed and some other different reasons and is also voted in a group of people it's just like naming stars and secret missions and projects that the government does.

Answer 4

NSC in Miami has a running list of names alternating male female...and every season starts out with "A" and runs through the full alphabet.  Some time it's recycled 3 times cause storms were so frequent.  So its predetermined by at least a full year....and I think from there it's a bunch of egg heads probably suggesting the names of women that scorned them recently...you know it used to be female names only...so I'm sure it was some kind of revenge.  But in the past say ten years or so, it is now male and female.  recently it was pointed out that African American popular names were almost exculded...but I haven't seen one that fits that 'as a fix' yet.