Sean is the 18th name on the 2029 list of Atlantic hurricane names, so it is next scheduled for 2029. It is used that year only if the season reaches the letter S. Since 2010, four storms have been named Sean; the strongest, in 2025, peaked as a Category 4 cyclone.
No. Sean is on the 2029 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).
Sean is next scheduled for 2029, when the 2029 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. Sean is name 18 of 21, and 10 of the 46 Atlantic seasons from 1980 to 2025 got that far.
Sean formed in the Southern Hemisphere in January 2025 and peaked as a Category 4 cyclone with maximum sustained winds of 130 mph (215 km/h) and a minimum pressure of 936 mb. It did not make landfall. The system was tracked for 6 days.
Cyclone Sean (2025): track and historySean formed in the Atlantic in October 2023 and peaked as a tropical storm with maximum sustained winds of 45 mph (75 km/h) and a minimum pressure of 1005 mb. It did not make landfall. The system was tracked for 6 days.
Tropical Storm Sean (2023): track and historySean formed in the Atlantic in November 2011 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 7 days.
Tropical Storm Sean (2011): track and historySean formed in the Southern Hemisphere in April 2010 and peaked as a tropical storm with maximum sustained winds of 70 mph (110 km/h) and a minimum pressure of 978 mb. It did not make landfall. The system was tracked for 10 days.
Tropical Storm Sean (2010): 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 both 2023 and 2011, Sean was the 18th name used in the Atlantic season.
Storms named Sean 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 Cyclone Sean in 2025, in the Southern Hemisphere. It formed on January 17, peaked at 130 mph (215 km/h) and lasted 6 days. It did not make landfall. Sean is the 18th name on the 2029 list of Atlantic names. Before that, the name was used in 2023, 2011 and 2010.
Cyclone Sean in 2025 was the strongest, peaking as a Category 4 cyclone with winds of 130 mph (215 km/h) and a minimum pressure of 936 mb. It formed in the Southern Hemisphere in January. The weakest of the four, in 2023, peaked at 45 mph (75 km/h).