Hattie is a retired Atlantic hurricane name. The World Meteorological Organization took it off the lists after the 1961 storm, so no future Atlantic storm will be called Hattie. Since 1990, two storms have been named Hattie; the strongest, in 1990, peaked as a Category 2 typhoon.
Yes. Hattie is on NHC’s list of retired Atlantic names because of the 1961 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.
Hattie formed in the Central Pacific in October 1993 and peaked as a tropical storm with maximum sustained winds of 60 mph (95 km/h) and a minimum pressure of 980 mb. It did not make landfall. The system was tracked for 15 days.
Tropical Storm Hattie (1993): track and historyHattie formed in the West Pacific in September 1990 and peaked as a Category 2 typhoon with maximum sustained winds of 105 mph (165 km/h) and a minimum pressure of 950 mb. It made landfall near Shingū, Japan. The system was tracked for 11 days.
Typhoon Hattie (1990): track and history| Storm | Landfall near | Date (UTC) | Wind |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hattie 1990 | Shingū, Japan | 1990-10-08 03:00 | 55 mph / 90 km/h |
Storms named Hattie 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 Hattie in 1993, in the Central Pacific. It formed on October 12, peaked at 60 mph (95 km/h) and lasted 15 days. It did not make landfall. Before that, the name was used in 1990.
Typhoon Hattie in 1990 was the strongest, peaking as a Category 2 typhoon with winds of 105 mph (165 km/h) and a minimum pressure of 950 mb. It formed in the West Pacific in September and made landfall near Shingū, Japan. The weakest of the two, in 1993, peaked at 60 mph (95 km/h).