How does a hurricane name become retired?

Answer 1

Hurricane names are retired by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in a meeting in March or April of each year. Those hurricanes that have their names retired tend to be exceptionally destructive storms that often become household names in the regions they affected. Since the naming of storms using human names began in 1953, an average of one storm name has been retired for each season, though many seasons (most recently 2006) have had no storm names retired, and after the 2005 season, five names were retired.

Answer 2

Any major infamous hurricane that causes significant property damage or deaths will be retired. As names are recycled, retiring It reduces confusion and not bring back bad memories for victims.

Here is a link with retired names and also says retired for "obvious sensitivity" reasons.

Answer 3

The number one reason a hurricane name is retired is for insurance purposes. Because claims can take years to process a major hurricane's name will "retire" to prevent the confusion of have claims for two hurricanes with the same name.

Answer 4

When it's a particularly devastating one.
The experience is traumatic.
People might panic if they hear, "Hurricane Andrew" or "Hurricane Katrina" again.

Answer 5

when a hurricane is really bad and causes a lot of devastaion