Rebekah is the 17th 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 R. It is the only storm named Rebekah in our archive, which covers every ocean since 1980.
No. Rebekah 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).
Rebekah 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. Rebekah is name 17 of 21, and 11 of the 46 Atlantic seasons from 1980 to 2025 got that far.
Rebekah formed in the Atlantic in October 2019 and peaked as a tropical storm with maximum sustained winds of 50 mph (85 km/h) and a minimum pressure of 965 mb. It did not make landfall. The system was tracked for 6 days.
Tropical Storm Rebekah (2019): 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, Rebekah was the 17th name used in the Atlantic season.
The most recent was Tropical Storm Rebekah in 2019, in the Atlantic. It formed on October 27, peaked at 50 mph (85 km/h) and lasted 6 days. It did not make landfall. It was the 17th name used in that Atlantic season. It is the only storm named Rebekah in our archive, which covers every ocean since 1980.