list of retired Pacific typhoon names

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The practice of using names to identify tropical cyclones goes back several centuries, with systems named after places, saints or things they hit before the formal start of naming in the Western Pacific.{{cite journal|author=Smith, Ray|journal=Weather and Climate|year=1990|publisher=The Meteorological Society of New Zealand|volume=10|title=What's in a Name?|issue=1|pages=24–26|doi=10.2307/44279572|jstor=44279572|s2cid=201717866 }} These included the Kamikaze, 1906 Hong Kong typhoon, 1922 Shantou typhoon and the 1934 Muroto typhoon.{{cite book|author=Landsea, Christopher W|author2=Dorst, Neal M|date=June 1, 2014|title=Tropical Cyclone Frequently Asked Question|chapter=Subject: Tropical Cyclone Names: B1) How are tropical cyclones named?|access-date=August 25, 2014|url-status=live|url=http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/TCFAQ_B.txt|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141012212537/http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/TCFAQ_B.txt|archive-date=October 12, 2014|publisher=United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Hurricane Research Division}}

The practice of retiring significant names was started during 1955 by the United States Weather Bureau in the Northern Atlantic basin, after hurricanes Carol, Edna, and Hazel struck the East Coast of the United States and caused a significant amount of damage in the previous year.{{cite web|title=They Called the Wind Mahina: The History of Naming Cyclones|author=Dorst, Neal|url=ftp://ftp.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/pub/dorst/Mahina.pptx|author2=Hurricane Research Division|publisher=National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration|page=Slides 8–72|date=October 23, 2012|format=PPTX}} Initially the names were only designed to be retired for ten years after which they might be reintroduced; however, it was decided at the 1969 Interdepartmental hurricane conference, that any significant hurricane in the future would have its name permanently retired.{{cite news|title=It's time (June) to match for Anna...|newspaper=The Daily Gleaner|date=June 1, 1969|agency=Reuters|page=2|location=Kingston, Jamaica}}{{subscription required|via=The Newspaper Archive}} The first tropical cyclone names to be retired in the Western Pacific were Lucille and Ophelia during 1960. Several names have been removed from the Pacific naming lists for various other reasons than causing a significant amount of death/destruction, which include being pronounced in a very similar way to other names and political reasons.{{RA IV Hurricane Operational Plan}}

In 2000, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) began naming tropical cyclones from a list of 140 names, submitted by 14 countries. Previously, the JMA labeled storms with numbers, but not names. The JMA has been the official warning agency of the western Pacific Ocean since 1981, though other organizations have also tracked typhoons. The Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) unofficially named tropical cyclones from 1947 to 1999.{{cite web|publisher=Hong Kong Observatory|year=2007|title=Tropical Cyclones in 2006|access-date=2008-03-04|url=http://www.weather.gov.hk/publica/tc/tc2006/english/section1.htm#1.3|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120207170136/http://www.weather.gov.hk/publica/tc/tc2006/english/section1.htm#1.3|archive-date=2012-02-07|url-status=dead}} During this time period, there were several pre-determined tropical cyclone lists, in which many names were removed and replaced with others.{{cite web|author=Digital Typhoon |year=2006 |title=Typhoon List View |access-date=2008-03-04 |url=http://agora.ex.nii.ac.jp/digital-typhoon/year/wnp/.html.en }}{{dead link|date=May 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) names tropical cyclones using a separate list, which is adjusted periodically.{{cite web|author=Chris Landsea|year=2007|title=How are Tropical Cyclones Named?|publisher=Hurricane Research Division|access-date=2008-03-05|url=http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/TCFAQ_B.txt}}

Between 1947 and 2000, eleven names of significant tropical cyclones were retired from the list of names used by the United States Joint Typhoon Warning Center.{{cite journal|author=Zhou, Xiao|author2=Lei, Xiaotu|year=2012|title=Summary of retired typhoons within the Western North Pacific Ocean|volume=1|issue=1|publisher=The Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific/World Meteorological Organization's Typhoon Committee|issn=2225-6032|journal=Tropical Cyclone Research and Review|pages=23–32|access-date=December 21, 2014|doi=10.6057/2012TCRR01.03|url=http://tcrr.typhoon.gov.cn/EN/article/downloadArticleFile.do?attachType=PDF&id=7|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170812172856/http://tcrr.typhoon.gov.cn/EN/article/downloadArticleFile.do?attachType=PDF&id=7|archive-date=August 12, 2017|url-status=dead}} During this time other names were removed from the naming lists, including in 1979 when the lists of names used were revised to include both male and female names.{{cite report |author1=Naval Oceanography Command Center |author2=Joint Typhoon Warning Center |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |title=Annual Typhoon Report: 1979 |page=10 |chapter-url=http://www.usno.navy.mil/NOOC/nmfc-ph/RSS/jtwc/atcr/1979atcr.pdf |url-status=live |chapter=Chapter III: Summary of Tropical Cyclones |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304064052/http://www.usno.navy.mil/NOOC/nmfc-ph/RSS/jtwc/atcr/1979atcr.pdf }} Tropical Storm Lucille was the first name to be retired for its impacts, while Ophelia was retired because of its long {{convert|5000|mi|km|order=flip|round=5|abbr=on}} track.

At the 33rd session of the typhoon committee held in November 2000, the committee was informed that the India Meteorological Department had objected to the name Hanuman being used as a name because of potential religious sentiments.{{cite report |year=2001 |title=Report of the Typhoon Committee on its Thirty-Third Session |page=9|access-date=April 13, 2022|url=http://www.typhooncommittee.org/sessionreports/Report_33rd_Session_2000.pdf|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20220121070432/http://www.typhooncommittee.org/sessionreports/Report_33rd_Session_2000.pdf|archivedate=January 21, 2022|publisher=The ESCAP/WMO Typhoon Committee}} Thailand also requested that the spelling of several names be corrected and indicated a desire to change the names Prapiroon, Durian and Khanun. The representatives of the United States of America also requested that the name Kodo be changed as it would have an undesirable meaning if mispronounced. The session subsequently accepted the spelling changes as well as the requests from Thailand and the United States and established that both countries would submit a list of four names in priority order to its Secretariat within a week of the session ending. The Typhoon Committee Secretariat would then circulate the list to all members for comment, with the highest priority name acceptable to all members used. The secretariat subsequently reported to the following years session that the names Morakot and Aere had replaced Hanuman and Kodo.{{cite report |year=2002 |title=Report of the Typhoon Committee on its Thirty-Fourth Session |page=7|access-date=April 13, 2022|url=http://www.typhooncommittee.org/sessionreports/Report_34th_Session_2001.pdf|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20220121070432/http://www.typhooncommittee.org/sessionreports/Report_34th_Session_2001.pdf|archivedate=January 21, 2022|publisher=The ESCAP/WMO Typhoon Committee}}

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