Someone told me if a named hurricane causes a death they take that name of the list, why is Erin being used?

Question

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While no lands deaths occur there were 6 drownings associate with Hurricane Erin in 1995.

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/1995erin.html

Answer 1

The name gets retired (or not) by the World Meteorological Organization following a request by a country affected by the Hurricane. For example, Gordon killed a lot of people in Haiti (1994) but Haiti did not request the name to be retired.

So, the retirement is not automatic. There must be a request made by an affected country. It is possible to make a request even if no one died.

Some names have been "retroactively" retired (meaning: when the request was made, the names had been reused for another storm, after the one that caused the damage).

Answer 2

The answer was right there on the same website you quoted from, if you had just clicked a couple more times:

"The only time that there is a change in the list is if a storm is so deadly or costly that the future use of its name on a different storm would be inappropriate for reasons of sensitivity. If that occurs, then at an annual meeting by the WMO committee (called primarily to discuss many other issues) the offending name is stricken from the list and another name is selected to replace it."

Answer 3

Names are retired only if the make landfall as a major hurricane. But last year no major hurricanes made landfall so no names will be retired and in 2005 Dennis, Katrina,Rita, Stan & Wilma are being retired and are going to be changed to Don, Katia, Rina,Sean& Whitney.

Answer 4

It's not the number of deaths a hurricane causes that rates its removal from the list, its the volume of damage done (in dollars).

Answer 5

Almost all hurricanes cause deaths.

They only take names off the list if they're superdestructive. Like Andrew, for example, or Katrina.

Answer 6

very useful question