Didn't hurricane season end?

[nolabelplez]

I thought that you couldn't have a named storm outside of hurricane season.
I remember the "No Name Storm" I think they call it the Storm of the Century now. The newscasters then said it would have been a Tropical Storm, but it wasn't during hurricane season.
Did the rules change?

[TheEuropean]

I thought that you couldn't have a named storm outside of hurricane season.
I remember the "No Name Storm" I think they call it the Storm of the Century now. The newscasters then said it would have been a Tropical Storm, but it wasn't during hurricane season.
Did the rules change?

No, nothing changed, we may have a named storm every time from January till December.

[Astro_man92]

So now that we are in the year 2006 if for chance there is another named storm that forms tomorrow it will be counted for the 2006 season??

[TheEuropean]

So now that we are in the year 2006 if for chance there is another named storm that forms tomorrow it will be counted for the 2006 season??

Correct. Season 2005 is definitly over, every new storm would get a name from the 2006 list.

[johngaltfla]

I thought that you couldn't have a named storm outside of hurricane season.
I remember the "No Name Storm" I think they call it the Storm of the Century now. The newscasters then said it would have been a Tropical Storm, but it wasn't during hurricane season.
Did the rules change?

No name was a cold core low, so it might have seemed like a tropical storm, but in reality it was just an extremely powerful cold low. I remember Atlanta getting a blizzard while we had over 30 tornado warnings in less than an hour.

It was bizarre.

[jimvb]

Nobody here has answered one of nolabelplez's questions, namely, what was the No Name Storm? Something must have changed. At one time there was a No Name Storm. Now we name every storm.

I did some Googling and found that the appellation "No-Name Storm" has been applied to the storm of the movie "The Perfect Storm", which occurred in 1991 October, and a storm on 1993 March 12-13 (sometimes I call it Bluto) which produced the lowest pressure I have ever seen on my barometer - 28.47 inches. The Perfect Storm was NOT a No-Name Storm. It's name was Grace, that of the hurricane that formed part of the storm. Bluto was not named, and the question is should it have been? Was it a hurricane?

So as to why these storms weren't named, The Perfect Storm WAS named, and weather professionals did not think Bluto was a tropical storm. So it is still the case that every storm that the weather professionals say is a tropical storm is named, even those out of season.

[Derek Ortt]

the 1993 storm did not get a name because it was not tropical

The 1991 storm is a hurricane that developed within the larger cold low

[WindRunner]

Actually, didn't the Perfect Storm absorb Grace as it was larger and stronger than she was?

[StormScanWx]

"The Perfect Storm" would have been named 'Henri' if it had been named.

[senorpepr]

I thought that you couldn't have a named storm outside of hurricane season.
I remember the "No Name Storm" I think they call it the Storm of the Century now. The newscasters then said it would have been a Tropical Storm, but it wasn't during hurricane season.
Did the rules change?

The "Perfect Storm" did occur during hurricane season--October.

[Brent]

Not every storm gets a name... if the system is not tropical or sub-tropical it doesn't get one. Period.

[P.K.]

Not every storm gets a name... if the system is not tropical or sub-tropical it doesn't get one. Period.

Unless you are German....

http://www.met.fu-berlin.de/de/wetter/maps/anabwkna.gif

[senorpepr]

Yes, but in the case of the Perfect Storm, it should have been named.

From the NCDC website:

The National Hurricane Center (now called the Center for Tropical Prediction) began naming tropical storms and hurricanes in 1950. The hurricane which developed at the center of the dying Halloween Storm met all meteorological criteria to be designated as a hurricane, and a track for it is shown on the National Hurricane Center's 1991 "North Atlantic Hurricane Tracking Chart." So why did the storm remain unnamed?

At the time of the hurricane, news media attention was still focused on the massive damage from Maine to Florida caused by the slowly dying Halloween (or "Perfect") Storm. It was felt that naming the hurricane would cause major confusion on the part of the media, Emergency Management officials, and the public. Since the hurricane was expected to be short-lived and primarily of concern to maritime interests, it was decided to leave the storm unnamed. All associated warnings were handled through enhanced High Seas and Offshore and Coastal Waters Forecasts. The decision was made jointly by NOAA's National Meteorological Center, selected National Weather Service Forecast Offices, the U.S. Navy, and the Maritimes Weather Center of the Atmospheric Environment Service of Canada. The unnamed hurricane brought a bizarre ending to one of the most massive Atlantic storms of record.