2000 Atlantic hurricane season (Cooper)

The 2000 Atlantic hurricane season was a very active season, mainly due to a La Niña weather pattern. The season officially began on June 1 and ended on November 30, dates which by convention limit the period of each year when tropical cyclones tend to form in the Atlantic Ocean basin. The season began with Tropical Storm Adam on June 7 and ended with an unnamed subtropical storm, which became extratropical on October 29.

Storm names
The following list of names was used for named storms that formed in the North Atlantic in 2000. The names not retired from this list were used again in the 2006 season. This was the same list used in the 1994 season, with the exceptions of Aidan and Kirk, which replaced Alberto and Keith, respectively. The names Adam, Kirk, Michael, Nadine, Oscar, Patty, Rafael, and Sandy were used for the first time this year.

Retirement
In the spring of 2001, at the