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Is a hurricane name ever retired?

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Anonymous

12y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

Yes. If a hurricane is bad enough then the name is retired and replaced with one of the same gender and first letter. For example, Katrina in 2005 was bad enough that the name was replaced with Katia for the 11th named storm in the 2011 season.

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