2013 Atlantic hurricane season

The **2013 Atlantic hurricane season** was a well below average season. The season started on June 1 and ended on November 30. The season began when Tropical Storm Andrea formed on June 5, 2013. It became a subtropical storm on June 7 before making a landfall 310 miles (500&nbsp;km) southwest of Tampa, Florida. Seventeen days later, Tropical Storm Barry developed. It became a post-tropical storm on June 7. On July 8, Tropical Storm Chantal formed. It later became a post-tropical system on July 10. The season finished on November 30, 2013. The season was the first Atlantic Hurricane season since 1994 to end with no known major hurricanes.

## Storms 

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**Tropical storm Andrea** developed on the 5th of June within the southern gulf of Mexico. The storm slowly strengthen as it moved northeastward making landfall around 2200z on the 6th in northeastern Florida. The system maximum intensity hit 55 knots.

**Tropical storm Barry** developed as a depression within the gulf of Honduras from a westward moving tropical wave on the 17th of June. The system later that day made landfall within Belize and moved across the Yucatán the next few days...The system moved into the bay of Campeche and the hurricane hunters found tropical storm force winds on the 19th before landfall.

## Storm names
The following names will be used for named storms that form in the North Atlantic in 2013.  The names not retired from this list will be used again in the 2019 season. This is the same list used in the 2007 season, except for Dorian, Fernand, and Nestor which replaced Dean, Felix, and Noel.

### Retirement 
On April 12, 2014, the name Ingrid was retired and was replaced by Imelda for the 2019 season.

## Related pages
* List of Atlantic hurricane seasons
* 2013 Pacific hurricane season
* South-West Indian Ocean cyclone seasons: 2012–13, 2013–14
* Australian region cyclone seasons: 2012–13, 2013–14
* South Pacific cyclone seasons: 2012–13, 2013–14

## References
## Other websites
* National Hurricane Center Website
* National Hurricane Center's Atlantic Tropical Weather Outlook
* Tropical Cyclone Formation Probability Guidance Product