2007 What-might-have-been Atlantic hurricane season (Cooper)

The 2007 Atlantic hurricane season was an above average Atlantic hurricane season, although most of the storms were weak. The season was the first to feature more than one landfalling Category 5 hurricane, a feat which would not be matched until the 2017 season. The 2007 season featured 15 named storms, 7 hurricanes, and 3 major hurricanes.It officially started on June 1 and ended on November 30, dates which conventionally delimit the period during which most tropical cyclones form in the Atlantic Ocean.

Storm names
The following list of names was used for named storms that formed in the North Atlantic in 2007. The names not retired from this list were used again in the 2013 season. This was the same list used in the 2001 season, with the exceptions of Andrea, Ingrid, and Melissa, which replaced Allison, Iris, and Michelle, respectively and were first used in 2007.

Retirement
On May 13, 2008, at the 30th session of the RA IV hurricane committee, the World Meteorological Association retired the names Dean, Felix, and Noel from its rotating name lists, and they will not be used again for another Atlantic hurricane. They were replaced with Dorian, Fernand, and Nestor for the 2013 season.