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What was the name of the first hurricane to ever be named?

Question #50984. Asked by joezhou300.
Last updated Oct 05 2016.

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The first officially named male hurricane based on the male/female system we use today was hurricane Bob in 1979.

Note that an argument can be made that the first US hurricane with a male name (unofficially named) was George, which hit in 1947.

Hurricane Bob was the first Atlantic tropical cyclone to be officially designated using a masculine name after the discontinuation of Joint Army/Navy Phonetic Alphabet names.[1] Bob brought moderate damage to portions of the United States Gulf Coast and areas farther inland in July 1979.

link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Bob_%281979%29

GEORGE:
Following the phonetic alphabet from World War II,[7] the U.S. Weather Bureau office in Miami, Florida, which then worked in conjunction with the military, named the storm George,[8] though such names were apparently informal and did not appear in public advisories until 1950, when the first Atlantic storm to be so designated was Hurricane Fox.

link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947_Fort_Lauderdale_hurricane
Until late in the 1940s, hurricanes were not officially named. The first US named hurricane (unofficially named) was George, which hit in 1947. The next one given a name was Hurricane Bess, named for the First Lady of the USA, Bess Truman, in 1949. Various naming conventions were used until the use of women's names was adopted in 1953. The names used that year were: Alice, Barbara, Carol, Dolly, Edna, Florence, Gilda, Hazel, Irene, Jill, Katherine, Lucy, Mabel, Norma, Orpha, Patsy, Queen, Rachel, Susie, Tina, Una, Vicky, and Wallis. Between 1953 and 1979, only women's names were used to name tropical storms but since 1979, men's and women's names have been alternated.

link http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/weather/hurricane/naming.shtml

The site also has a lot of hurricane links.

This article tells a little more about how and when storms were first given names.
link http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/B1.html

Response last updated by Terry on Oct 05 2016.
Sep 13 2004, 10:09 PM
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