2019 Atlantic hurricane season (Hypercane's Version 2)

The 2019 Atlantic hurricane season was an above average season. The season was coming out of an El Niño that occurred in late 2018 and lasted till April. Warm ENSO Neutral conditions then resulted in slightly lower than normal wind shear across the basin. 17 tropical cyclones formed with 15 becoming named storms, 9 becoming hurricanes, and 4 becoming major hurricanes.

Tropical Depression One
During early May, a surface frontal trough emerged off the coast of North Carolina with the tail-end of it dragging itself over the central Caribbean Sea, prompting an area of low pressure form and stall out over the unusually warm sea surface temperatures for the time of year. As it was situated over the warmer than average sea surface temperatures in the central Caribbean, it began to develop organized deep convection near its center, prompting the National Hurricane Center to initiate special tropical weather outlooks for the system on May 16. On May 18, evidence of a low-level circulation under the deep central convection became apparent, leading the National Hurricane Center to declare the system Tropical Depression One while situated just to the north of Honduras. Initially, forecasts from the NHC would take the system over the Yucatan Peninsula and dissipate it over the Bay of Campeche without making another landfall. However, as time went on, it slowly neared the Yucatan Peninsula as a 30 mile per hour depression with a central pressure of 1011 millibars, later making landfall there. While it was over the Yucatan, a frontal system came southward toward the Gulf of Mexico, making the cyclone change trajectory and begin heading towards Florida. The system would subsequently peak as a 35 mile per hour depression with a central pressure of 1006 millibars while over the Gulf of Mexico around 18:21 UTC, May 20. Tropical Depression One then made landfall in Florida as a weaker 30 mph tropical depression, later emerging off the eastern coast of Florida still maintaining its circulation, although it was just barely detectable. While now over the western Atlantic, the same frontal system that steered it towards Florida was starting to merge with the depression, making it rapidly lose tropical characteristics while racing off to the northeast. The merger was completed in the evening hours of May 23 with the depression being declared post-tropical as it continued to race off to the northeast, quickly being absorbed completely into the frontal system just six hours later.

Storm Names
The following list was used again from the 2007 season with the exception of Imelda, which replaced the retired Ingrid in 2013.