List of retired Pacific hurricane names

[3][5] During 1957, two other tropical cyclones developed in the Central Pacific and were named Kanoa and Nina by the Hawaiian military meteorological offices.

[9] However, after no storms had developed in this region between 1979 and 1981, the annual lists were scrapped and replaced with four sets of names and designed to be used consecutively.

[13] However, the committee declined the request and noted that its criteria for the retirement of names was "well defined and very strict.

[14] 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.

[13][15] The practice of retiring significant names was started during 1955 by the United States Weather Bureau in the Atlantic basin, after hurricanes Carol, Edna, and Hazel struck the Northeastern United States and caused a significant amount of damage in the previous year.

[18][19][20] In the Eastern Pacific basin (between 140°W and the western coast of North America), 17 names have been retired as of 2024.

[20] In the early 1990s the names Fefa and Ismael were both retired after they affected Hawaii and Northern Mexico, respectively.

[23] The name Manuel was retired in 2013, after it became the first Eastern Pacific tropical cyclone on record to make landfall in mainland Mexico, redevelop over water, and become a hurricane.