Would an Atlantic Hurricane get a new name if it crossed into the Pacific?

Question

If so, what is the furthest west that an atlantic hurricane has ever traveled? Just curious.

Well...yeah it couldnt (easily) cross the lower Rockies, but what about going through Panama?

Answer 1

The National Hurricane Center has recently changed their policy on this. They currently state that if an Atlantic hurricane crossed into the Pacific basin (or vice-versa) without ever losing its low-level circulation, it would keep its name. If a system lost its circulation over land while crossing over but then redeveloped one in the new basin, it would get a new name there (and in fact, it would get a new name even if this happened entirely within one basin as was the case in the Atlantic in 2005 with both Tropical Depression 10 (later 12) and the "Unnamed Subtropical Storm" (later Hurricane Vince)). In the past, hurricanes that crossed basins were always renamed (such as Joan-Miriam in 1988 and Cesar-Douglas in 1996, both Atlantic-to-Pacific crossings), and no hurricane has crossed basins since the policy change in 2001.

Answer 2

It was the policy of National Hurricane Center (NHC) to rename a tropical storm which crossed from Atlantic into Pacific, or vice versa. Examples include Hurricane Cesar-Douglas in 1996, Hurricane Joan-Miriam in 1988, and Hurricane Cosme-Allison in 1989. Should a tropical cyclone during its passage over Mexico or Central America maintain its area of low pressure without dissipation into the adjacent tropical cyclone basin, it retains its name. However, a new name is given if the original surface circulation dissipates. Up to now, there has been no tropical cyclone retaining its name during the passage from the Northeast Pacific to the Atlantic basin, or vice versa, since the policy change in 2001.

Answer 3

Yes and no.

If it could get far enough off-shore into the Pacific it will be called a typhoon if it came to threaten anything, but it won't happen.

It will die a quick death in the much deeper cooler Pacific waters before it goes anyplace.

Answer 4

There is a large chain of mountains in the way.
Just a theory but I don't think hurricanes travel uphill very easily.