1988 WMHB Pacific hurricane season (Cooper)

The 1988 Pacific hurricane season was a near-average Pacific hurricane season that produced a total of 16 named tropical storms, 9 hurricanes, and 4 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 basin.

Storm names
The following list of names was used for named storms that formed in the Northeastern Pacific 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.

Retirement
In the spring of 1989, at the 11th session of the RA IV hurricane committee, the World Meteorological Organization retired the name Iva from its rotating name lists due to a pronunciation ambiguity with the retired Central Pacific name Iwa, and it will not be used again for another Pacific hurricane. Iva was replaced with Illeana for the 1994 season.