The first named hurricane?

Question

What was the first hurricane that was named and when did they start naming hurricanes?
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Answer 1

The first US named hurricane (unofficially named) was George, which hit in 1947. The next one given a name was Hurricane Bess (named for the First Lady of the USA, Bess Truman, in 1949).

Answer 2

For several hundred years after Europeans arrived in the West Indies, hurricanes there were named after the saint's day on which the storm struck. If a second storm struck on the same saint's day later, it would be referred to as segundo (Spanish for "the second"), as with Hurricane San Felipe Segundo.

The practice of giving storms people's names was introduced by Clement Lindley Wragge, an Anglo-Australian meteorologist at the end of the 19th century. He used female names, the names of politicians who had offended him, and names from history and mythology. During World War II, tropical cyclones were given feminine names, mainly for the convenience of forecasters and in a somewhat ad hoc manner. In addition, George R. Stewart's 1941 novel Storm helped to popularize the concept of giving names to tropical cyclones
From 1950 through 1952, names from the Joint Army/Navy Phonetic Alphabet were used for storms in the North Atlantic. The modern naming convention was in response to the need for unambiguous radio communications with ships and aircraft. As transportation traffic increased and meteorological observations improved in number and quality, several typhoons, hurricanes, or cyclones might have to be tracked at any given time. To help in their identification, the practice of systematically naming tropical storms and hurricanes was initiated in 1953 by the United States National Hurricane Center. Naming is now maintained by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).

In keeping with the common English language practice of referring to named inanimate objects such as boats, trains, etc., using the female pronoun "she," names used were exclusively feminine. The first storm of the year was assigned a name beginning with the letter "A," the second with the letter "B," etc. Because tropical storms and hurricanes are often destructive, some considered this practice sexist. The WMO responded to these concerns in 1979 with the introduction of masculine names to the nomenclature. It was also in 1979 that the practice of preparing a list of names before the season began. The names are usually of English, French, or Spanish origin in the Atlantic basin, because these are the three predominant languages of the region that the storms typically affect. In the southern hemisphere, male names were given to cyclones starting in 1975.

The first Tropical Storm named this way was Amy but it never became a hurricane. The very first hurricane ever named officially by the WMO was Hurrican Blanche

Answer 3

The first person to name tropical cyclones/hurricanes/typhoons was a Scottish meteorologist working in Queensland, Australia in the late 1890s/early 1900s. His name was Clement Wragge. He named the storms after Greek gods and goddesses and occasionaly after politicians so he could say nasty things about them. The first three prime ministers of Australia had tropical cyclones named after them.

After Wragge moved on to obscure long range weather forecasting systems in New Zealand and back in Australia, the practice of naming the storms died. It was revived well after the Second World War, about 1964 in Australia but it was probably earlier in the USA.

Answer 4

The first US named hurricane (unofficially named) was George, which hit in 1947.

Answer 5

1953,

before that storms were named mostly according to geographic coordinates or the day of month it occured. Only a few were named after people.

Answer 6

Hurricane "what the heck is wrong with those clouds?"

Answer 7

BarbaraBush

Answer 8

They named it Susan after my first wife..lol