Typhoon names that should have been retired

[HurricaneBill]

I know it would have been impossible to retire typhoon names. They would have quickly run out. But there are storms that I definitely would have retired.

Here's a list of typhoons that I think should have been retired from 1945 to 2008.

Names with a (*) next to them means they were actually retired.

1947: Typhoon Kathleen

1951: Typhoon Amy

1954: Typhoon Marie

1956: Super Typhoon Wanda

1958: Super Typhoon Ida

1959: Typhoon Ellen
Super Typhoon Sarah
Super Typhoon Vera

1960: Typhoon Mary

1961: Super Typhoon Nancy

1962: Typhoon Freda
Tropical Storm Harriet
Super Typhoon Karen*

1963: Super Typhoon Gloria

1964: Typhoon Iris
Super Typhoon Louise

1970: Super Typhoon Georgia
Super Typhoon Joan
Super Typhoon Kate
Super Typhoon Patsy

1971: Typhoon Rose

1974: Typhoon Gilda

1976: Typhoon Olga
Super Typhoon Pamela
Super Typhoon Fran

1978: Super Typhoon Rita

1979: Super Typhoon Judy
Super Typhoon Tip

1982: Super Typhoon Bess

1984: Typhoon Ike*
Typhoon Agnes

1985: Typhoon Cecil

1986: Super Typhoon Peggy
Typhoon Wayne

1987: Super Typhoon Betty
Super Typhoon Nina

1988: Typhoon Ruby
Typhoon Skip

1989: Super Typhoon Gay

1990: Typhoon Abe
Super Typhoon Flo
Super Typhoon Mike*

1991: Super Typhoon Mireille*
Tropical Storm Thelma*

1992: Super Typhoon Omar*

1993: Super Typhoon Yancy

1994: Super Typhoon Fred

1995: Super Typhoon Angela

1996: Super Typhoon Herb
Super Typhoon Sally

1997: Super Typhoon Winnie
Typhoon Linda

1998: Super Typhoon Zeb
Super Typhoon Babs

1999: Super Typhoon Bart

2001: Typhoon Toraji
Typhoon Nari
Typhoon Vamei*

2002: Super Typhoon Chataan*
Typhoon Rusa*
Super Typhoon Pongsona*

2003: Super Typhoon Imbudo*
Super Typhoon Maemi*

2004: Super Typhoon Sudal*
Typhoon Rananim*
Typhoon Songda
Typhoon Tokage

2005: Typhoon Matsa*
Super Typhoon Nabi*
Typhoon Longwang*

2006: Typhoon Chanchu*
Tropical Storm Bilis*
Super Typhoon Saomai*
Typhoon Xangsane*
Super Typhoon Durian*

2008: Typhoon Fengshen

[Ad Novoxium]

No Typhoon Nina (1975)? 175,000-200,000 death toll seems pretty large.

[Aslkahuna]

Rita should have been retired in 1972. I know of at least three Irmas that should have been retired and Gay in 1992. Supertyphoon June 1975 also-it was June's record that Tip broke and June started in fairly low latitudes. I don't see STY Wilma from the early 1950's on the list-that storm claimed the first recon crew to go down in WPAC. Bess in 1974 WAS retired because we lost a WC-130 in that storm in the SCS.

Steve

[Ad Novoxium]

Another typhoon that seemed to stay despite good enough reason for retirement: 2005's Talim. $1.5 billion damage, and 150 deaths.

[Ed Mahmoud]

1988: Typhoon Ruby
Typhoon Skip

My ship, the USS Chuck Wagon (CVN-70) sailed near the perimter of Skip near the South China Sea. Don't normally notice waves/swell on a Nimitz class carrier, but we did. Escort destroyers looked like they were having a fun ride. Some damage to antennaes, and a hole was knocked in the skin of the ship above the waterline near the foc's'le.

[masaji79]

I think the reason most of these names were not retired was that prior to 2000 Typhoons were named by the JTWC, and countries the storms affected had little say in the storm names.

Anyways in addition to the list above I would have retired these names as well:

1945- Typhoon Louise

1947- Typhoon Pauline

1948- Typhoon Ione

1949- Typhoon Della
Typhoon Kitty
Typhoon Rena

1950- Typhoon Jane

1951- Typhoon Ruth

1952- Typhoon Trix

1953- Typhoon Tess

1954- Typhoon June

1959- Typhoon Georgia
Typhoon Iris

1960- Typhoon Shirley
Typhoon Kit

1961: Super Typhoon Nancy

1962- Typhoon Wanda

1964- Typhoon Ruby

1966- Typhoon Ida

1967- Typhoon Billie

1969- Typhoon Elsie

1972- Typhoon Kit

1974- Typhoon Nina

1979- Typhoon Hope
Typhoon Irving

1981- Typhoon Kelly
Typhoon Irma
Typhoon Lee

1982- Typhoon Nancy

1985- Typhoon Jeff
Typhoon Nelson

1987- Typhoon Thelma

1989- Tropical Storm Vera

1990- Typhoon Yancy

1991- Typhoon Yuri

1993- Typhoon Lola
Typhoon Manny

1995- Typhoon Zack

1996- Tropical Storm Greg

1999- Typhoon Olga