User:Jason Rees/CPAC Naming

1980
Ahead of the

Ahead of the 1980 hurricane season, the National Weather Service introduced five lists of Hawaiian names for the Central Pacific basin that would rotate on an annual basis. The names would be assigned to tropical storms thar developed in the basin, while any that moved in from the Eastern or Western Pacific basins would retain their names. After no names were used from the lists during 1980, it was decided to scrap the original five lists of names and replace them with four lists of names that ran consecutively.

2007
Ahead of the 2007 hurricane season, the Central Pacific Hurricane Center (CPHC) and the Hawaii State Civil Defense requested that the hurricane committee retire eleven names from the Eastern Pacific naming lists. However, the committee declined the request and noted that its criteria for the retirement of names was "well defined and very strict." It was felt that while the systems may have had a significant impact on the Hawaiian Islands, none of the impacts were major enough to warrant the retirement of the names. It was also noted that the committee had previously not retired names for systems that had a greater impact than those that had been submitted. The CPHC also introduced a revised set of Hawaiian names for the Central Pacific, after they had worked with the University of Hawaii Hawaiian Studies Department to ensure the correct meaning and appropriate historical and cultural use of the names.