Nestor is the 14th name on the 2031 list of Atlantic hurricane names, so it is next scheduled for 2031. It is used that year only if the season reaches the letter N. Since 1997, two storms have been named Nestor; the strongest, in 1997, peaked as a Category 5 super typhoon.
No. Nestor is on the 2031 list of Atlantic names, and it is not among the 100 names NHC lists as retired from the Atlantic (Tropical Cyclone Naming History and Retired Names).
Nestor is next scheduled for 2031, when the 2031 list is used. The six lists rotate, so each one returns every six years.
A name on the list is used only if the season gets that far. Nestor is name 14 of 21, and 22 of the 46 Atlantic seasons from 1980 to 2025 got that far.
Nestor formed in the Atlantic in October 2019 and peaked as a tropical storm with maximum sustained winds of 60 mph (95 km/h) and a minimum pressure of 996 mb. It did not make landfall. The system was tracked for 4 days.
Tropical Storm Nestor (2019): track and historyNestor formed in the West Pacific in June 1997 and peaked as a Category 5 super typhoon with maximum sustained winds of 160 mph (260 km/h) and a minimum pressure of 930 mb. It did not make landfall. The system was tracked for 16 days.
Super Typhoon Nestor (1997): track and historyNames go in alphabetical order, one per storm, as each storm reaches tropical-storm strength (39 mph, 34 knots), so a storm’s place in its season decides its name.
In 2019, Nestor was the 14th name used in the Atlantic season.
Storms named Nestor 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 Nestor in 2019, in the Atlantic. It formed on October 17, peaked at 60 mph (95 km/h) and lasted 4 days. It did not make landfall. It was the 14th name used in that Atlantic season. Before that, the name was used in 1997.
Super Typhoon Nestor in 1997 was the strongest, peaking as a Category 5 super typhoon with winds of 160 mph (260 km/h) and a minimum pressure of 930 mb. It formed in the West Pacific in June. The weakest of the two, in 2019, peaked at 60 mph (95 km/h).