David is a retired Atlantic hurricane name. The World Meteorological Organization took it off the lists after the 1979 storm, so no future Atlantic storm will be called David. Its place on the list now belongs to Danny, on the 2027 list. Since 1997, two storms have been named David; the strongest, in 1997, peaked as a Category 2 typhoon.
Yes. David is on NHC’s list of retired Atlantic names because of the 1979 storm. It is one of 100 names retired there since 1954 (Tropical Cyclone Naming History and Retired Names).
A name is retired when a storm was so deadly or costly that using the name again would be insensitive; the World Meteorological Organization then picks a new name with the same first letter at its annual meeting.
It won’t be. Retired names are not used again on the Atlantic lists. Its place on the list, the D slot, now belongs to Danny, on the 2027 Atlantic list, which is next used in 2027.
David formed in the Southern Hemisphere in December 2009 and peaked as a tropical storm with maximum sustained winds of 65 mph (100 km/h) and a minimum pressure of 982 mb. It did not make landfall. The system was tracked for 19 days.
Tropical Storm David (2009): track and historyDavid formed in the West Pacific in September 1997 and peaked as a Category 2 typhoon with maximum sustained winds of 110 mph (175 km/h) and a minimum pressure of 945 mb. It did not make landfall. The system was tracked for 13 days.
Typhoon David (1997): track and historyStorms named David appear in more than one ocean in our archive:
Each ocean region keeps its own name lists, drawn up by its own WMO regional committee (Tropical cyclone naming), so the same name can be given to unrelated storms in different oceans.
The most recent was Tropical Storm David in 2009, in the Southern Hemisphere. It formed on December 12, peaked at 65 mph (100 km/h) and lasted 19 days. It did not make landfall. Before that, the name was used in 1997.
Typhoon David in 1997 was the strongest, peaking as a Category 2 typhoon with winds of 110 mph (175 km/h) and a minimum pressure of 945 mb. It formed in the West Pacific in September. The weakest of the two, in 2009, peaked at 65 mph (100 km/h).