May 1, 2009 2:37 pm US/Eastern
Four 2008 Tropical Storm Names Retired
MIAMI (CBS4) ―
The World Meteorological Organization's hurricane committee retired three names from the Atlantic region and one name in the Northern Pacific due to the deaths and damage the storms caused in 2008. Gustav, Ike, and Paloma were retired in the Atlantic and Alma was retired in the North Pacific.
Those names would have been used again in 2014, instead they will be replaced by Gonzalo, Isaias and Paulette in the Atlantic region and Amanda in the North Pacific.
Gustav killed 112 people, including 77 in Haiti. The storm caused more than $4 billion damage in Louisiana alone. Ike struck the United States as a Category 2 hurricane and inflicted more than $19.3 billion damage and killed 80 people across the Caribbean and the Bahamas.
Paloma became the second strongest November Atlantic hurricane when it reached Category 4 status. The storm struck Cuba and destroyed 1,400 homes and left $300 million of damage on the Cuban mainland.
Alma was the first eastern North Pacific basin tropical cyclone to make landfall along the Pacific Coast of Central America since records began in 1949. Alma was responsible for two direct deaths and the destruction of thousands of homes.
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