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The
1988 Atlantic hurricane season
officially began on
June 1
,
1988
and ended on
November 30
,
1988
. However tropical cyclone can form outside these dates for example, Tropical Depression One formed on
May 30
. This season was active with 19 depressions. This season was damaging and it featured the strongest storm known at the time,
Hurricane Gilbert
.
- Tropical Depression One
- Tropical Storm Alberto
- Tropical Storm Beryl
- Tropical Depression Four
- Tropical Depression Five
- Tropical Depression Six
- Tropical Storm Chris
- Hurricane Debby
- Tropical Storm Ernesto
- Tropical Depression Ten
- Hurricane Florence
- Hurricane Gilbert
- Unnamed Tropical Storm
- Hurricane Helene
- Tropical Depression Fifteen
- Tropical Storm Isaac
- Hurricane Joan
- Tropical Depression Eighteen
- Tropical Storm Keith
This list is the name that were set aside for the 1988 Atlantic hurricane season. The name lists repeat every six year and the only way the names are changed is if a name is retired. This list is the same as the list in
1982
because no names were retired in 1982.
- Alberto
- Beryl
- Chris
- Debby
- Ernesto
- Florence
- Gilbert
|
- Helene
- Isaac
- Joan
- Keith
- Leslie
(unused)
- Michael
(unused)
- Nadine
(unused)
|
- Oscar
(unused)
- Patty
(unused)
- Rafael
(unused)
- Sandy
(unused)
- Tony
(unused)
- Valerie
(unused)
- William
(unused)
|
In the spring of
1989
Gilbert and Joan were replaced by Gorden and Joyce in
1994
, however it 1994 Joyce was not used because of 1994's low activity.