Simplify the following text for a Grade 8 native English-speaking person.
Original: The 2002 Atlantic hurricane season was an average Atlantic hurricane season , officially starting on June 1 , 2002 and ending on November 30 , dates which conventionally limit the period of each year when tropical cyclones in the Atlantic Ocean tend to form .
Simplified: The 2002 Atlantic hurricane season was a yearly event of tropical cyclones forming in the Atlantic Ocean . The season officially began on June 1 and ended on November 30 .