1988 WMHB Atlantic hurricane season (Cooper)

The 1988 Atlantic hurricane season was an active, deadly, and destructive Atlantic hurricane season, with 13 named storms, 7 hurricanes, and 3 major hurricanes forming.

Storm names
The following list of names was used for named storms that formed in the North Atlantic in 1988. The names not retired from this list were used again in the 1994 season. This was the same list used in the 1982 season. The names Helene, Isaac, Joan, Keith, Leslie, and Michael were used for the first (and only, in the cases of Isaac and Leslie) time this year.

Retirement
In the spring of 1989, at the 11th session of the RA IV hurricane commitee, the World Meteorological Organization retired the names Gilbert, Isaac, and Leslie from its rotating name lists due to the amount of deaths and damage they caused, and they will not be used again for another Atlantic hurricane. They were replaced with Gilbert, Irving, and Lynn for the 1994 season.