1989 WMHB Atlantic hurricane season (Cooper)

The 1989 Atlantic hurricane season was a very active Atlantic hurricane season, with 13 named storms, 9 hurricanes, and 3 major hurricanes forming, making it the most active Atlantic hurricane season since 1969.

Storm names
The following list of names was used for named storms that formed in the North Atlantic in 1989. The names not retired from this list were used again in the 1995 season. This was the same list used in the 1983 season, with the exception of the name Allison, which replaced Alicia. The names Allison, Felix, Gabrielle, Hugo, Iris, Jerry, Karen, Luis, and Marilyn were used for the first (and only, in the case of Hugo) time in 1989.

Retirement
In the spring of 1990, at the 12th session of the RA IV hurricane committee, the World Meteorological Organization retired the name Hugo from its rotating name lists due to the amount of damage and deaths it caused, and it will not be used again for another Atlantic hurricane. Hugo was replaced with Humberto for the 1995 season.