The US National Weather Service began systematically naming Atlantic hurricanes with women’s names in this year.
- 1945
- 1953
- 1959
- 1978
1953. Starting in 1951 storms were named using the phonetic alphabet. The first storm of a year was “Able”, the second was “Baker” and so on. In 1953 The Weather Service started using women’s names to identify storms.
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