Here is a list of names of Atlantic hurricanes which were retired because the storm was considered to be exceptionally nasty (lots of property damage and/or deaths). Naming first began in 1950. Notice how frequently North Carolina is listed as having been adversely affected by the storm.
1954
Carol - North Carolina, New York, New England
Edna - North Carolina and New England
Hazel - the Carolinas
1955
Connie - North Carolina
Diane - North Carolina,
Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia
Ione - North Carolina
Janet - Antilles, Belize, and Mexico
1957
Audrey - Louisiana and Texas
1959
Gracie - South Carolina
1960
Donna - Bahamas, Florida, North
Carolina, New York and New England
1961
Carla - Texas, Haiti, Belize, and Guatemala
Hattie - Belize, Guatemala
1963
Flora - Haiti and Cuba
1964
Cleo - Antilles, Haiti, Cuba, and Florida
Dora - Florida
Hilda - Louisiana
1965
Betsy - Bahamas, Florida, and Louisiana
1966
Inez - Antilles, Cuba, Bahamas, Florida Keys and
Mexico
1967
Beulah - Antilles, Hispaniola, Mexico and Texas
1969
Camille - Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama
1970
Celia -Texas
1972
Agnes - Florida, Northeast US (I
experienced this one in upstate NY)
1974
Carmen - Mexico and Louisiana
Fifi - Belize, Mexico, and Louisiana
1975
Eloise - Mexico, Florida, and Alabama
1977
Anita - Mexico
1979
David - Antilles, Hispaniola, Cuba, Florida, Georgia,
and South Carolina
Frederic - Antilles, Alabama, and Mississippi
1980
Allen - Antilles, Haiti, Jamaica, Mexico, and Texas
1983
Alicia - Texas
1985
Elena - Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi
Gloria - North Carolina,
New York, and the Northeast
1988
Gilbert - Antilles, Jamaica, and Mexico
Joan - Antilles, Curacao, Venezuela, Colombia, Nicaragua,
and El Salvador
1989
Hugo - Antilles, Puerto Rico, South Carolina and
North Carolina
1990
Diana - Mexico
Klaus - Antilles
1991
Bob - North Carolina, New England
1992
Andrew - Florida, Louisiana
1995
Luis - Antilles, Bermuda, and Newfoundland
Marilyn - Antilles, Puerto Rico, and Bermuda
Opal - Mexico, Florida, Alabama, North
Carolina and South Carolina
Roxanne - Mexico
1996
Cesar - Venezuela, Colombia, Nicaragua, Honduras,
and El Salvador
Fran - North Carolina
--
hit me hard
Hortense - Antilles, Puerto Rico, and Haiti
1998
Georges - Antilles, Florida Keys, Mississippi, Alabama
Mitch - Central America
1999
Floyd - North Carolina
--
hit me hard
Lenny - Antilles
2000
Keith - Mexico
2001
Allison - Texas
Iris - Jamica
Michelle - Honduras, Cuba, Florida Keys
2002
Isadore - Mexico, Louisiana
Lili - St. Vincent, Barbados, St. Lucia, Haiti, Jamaica, Cuba, Louisiana
2003
Fabian - Bermuda
Isabel - North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, DC
Juan - Eastern Canada
2004
Charley - Cuba, Florida, South Carolina, North
Carolina
Frances - Bahamas, Florida, Georgia
Ivan - Tobago, Barbados, Grenada, Venezuela, Cayman Islands,
Hispaniola, Jamaica, Cuba, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia,
North Carolina,
Florida, Louisiana
Jeanne - Guadeloupe, Puerto Rico, Hispaniola,
Bahamas, Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas
2005
Dennis - Cuba, Florida
Katrina - Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi
Rita - Texas,
Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama
Stan - Central American and the Yucatan
Wilma - The Yucatan and Florida
2007
Dean - Caribbean, Central America
Felix - Central America
Noel - Hispaniola -- and, extratropical, Maine, Canada, and Northern Europe
(after merging with Cyclone Tilo)
2008
Gustav - Caribbean, Cuba, Louisiana
Ike - Caribbean, Cuba, Louisiana, Texas
Paloma - Cayman Islands, Cuba
2011
Gustav - Caribbean, Cuba, Louisiana
Igor - Bermuda, Newfoundland
Tomas - Caribbean
Irene - Caribbean, Bahamas, the Carolinas,
Canada --
this one destroyed our roof
2012
Sandy - Caribbean, Bahamas, New Jersey, New York
2013
Ingrid - Mexico
2015
Erika - Caribbean
Joaquin - Bahamas, Bermuda
2016
Matthew - Haiti, Florida through the Carolinas
Otto - Central America
2017
Harvey - Texas, Louisiana
Irma - Caribbean, Florida through the Carolinas
Maria - Puerto Rico
Nate - Central America, US Gulf Coast
2018
Florence- the Carolinas
Michael - Central America, US Gulf Coast
2019
Florence - the Bahamas, Florida through the
Carolinas
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