2001 WMHB Pacific hurricane season (Cooper)

The 2001 Pacific hurricane season was a near-average Pacific hurricane season, featuring 16 named storms, 8 hurricanes, and 3 major hurricanes. The season officially started on May 15 in the eastern Pacific, and on June 1 in the central Pacific, while both ended on November 30. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the Pacific basin.

Storm names
The following list of names was used for named storms that formed in the Northeastern Pacific in 2015. The names not retired from this list will be used again in the 2021 season. This was the same list used in the 2009 season with the exceptions of Lorraine and Tim, which replaced Linda and Trudy, respectively. The name Tim was used for the first time this year, while Lorraine had previously been used in 1966, 1970, and 1974.

For storms that form in the Central Pacific Hurricane Center's area of responsibility, encompassing the area between 140 degrees west and the International Date Line, all names are used in a series of four rotating lists. The next four names slated for use are listed below, although none of them were used this year.

Retirement
In the spring of 2002, at the 24th session of the RA IV hurricane committee, the World Meteorological Organization retired the name Juliette from its rotating name lists due to the amount of damage and deaths it caused, and it will not be used again for another Pacific hurricane. Juliette was replaced with Janet for the 2007 season.