2018 Atlantic hurricane season

The **2018 Atlantic hurricane season** was an above-average season, featuring 15 named storms, 8 hurricanes and 2 major hurricanes. The season officially began on June 1, 2018, and ended on November 30, 2018. These dates historically describe the period each year when most tropical cyclones form in the Atlantic basin and are adopted by convention. However, the formation of tropical cyclones is possible at any time of the year.

## Storms

### Tropical Storm Alberto

*Main Article: Subtropical Storm Alberto*

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Tropical Storm Alberto was the first Named Storm of the 2018 Atlantic Hurricane Season. Alberto also marked the 4th year in a row that a named storm has been classified before the official start of the season, forming a week before the official start. Alberto formed as a subtropical storm in the northwest Caribbean Sea. Alberto spent many days unorganized, and dumping heavy rains across Cuba and Southern Florida before making landfall around Laguna Beach Florida. It moved inland and weakened to a subtropical depression as it moved over Alabama, eventually transitioning into a fully tropical depression over Tennessee, a rare occurrence. The depression remained tropical until it was over Michigan, where it turned post topical, which was very unusual as well.

### Hurricane Beryl

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### Hurricane Chris

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### Tropical Storm Debby

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### Tropical Storm Ernesto

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### Hurricane Florence

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### Tropical Storm Gordon

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### Hurricane Helene

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### Hurricane Isaac

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### Tropical Storm Joyce

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### Tropical Depression Eleven

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### Tropical Storm Kirk

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### Hurricane Leslie

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### Hurricane Michael

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### Tropical Storm Nadine

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### Hurricane Oscar

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## Storm names

The following list of names will be used for named storms that form in the North Atlantic in 2018. Retired names, if any, will be announced by the World Meteorological Organization in the spring of 2019. The names not retired from this list will be used again in the 2024 season. This is the same list used in the 2012 season except for Sara, which replaced Sandy.

* Beryl
* Chris
* Debby
* Ernesto
* Florence
* Gordon
* Isaac
* Joyce
* Kirk
* Leslie
* Michael
* Nadine
* Patty *(unused)*
* Rafael *(unused)*
* Sara *(unused)*
* Tony *(unused)*
* Valerie *(unused)*
* William *(unused)*

### Retirement

On March 20, 2019 at the 41st session of the RA IV hurricane committee, The WMO retired *Florence* and *Michael* from List #4 of the rotating name lists due to their impacts and loss of life, They will never again be used for another Atlantic hurricane, They will be replaced by *Francine* and *Milton* for the 2024 season.

## Season effects

This is a table of all the storms that have formed in the 2018 Atlantic hurricane season. It includes their duration, names, landfall(s), denoted in parentheses, damages, and death totals. Deaths in parentheses are additional and indirect (an example of an indirect death would be a traffic accident), but were still related to that storm. Damage and deaths include totals while the storm was extratropical, a wave, or a low, and all the damage figures are in 2017 USD.