1994 WMHB Atlantic hurricane season (Cooper)

The 1994 Atlantic hurricane season was the final season in the most recent low-activity era (“cold phase”) of tropical cyclone formation in the Atlantic. It produced twelve named storms, six hurricanes, and two major hurricanes, a total above the seasonal average. The season officially started on June 1 and ended on November 30, dates which conventionally limit the period during which most tropical cyclones form in the Atlantic basin.

Storm names
The following list of names was used for named storms that formed in the North Atlantic in 1994. The names not retired from this list will be used again in the 2000 season. This was the same list used in the 1988 season, with the exceptions of Gordon and Joyce, which replaced Gilbert and Joan, respectively. The names Gordon, Joyce, and Leslie were used for the first time this year.

Retirement
In the spring of 1995, at the 17th session of the RA IV hurricane committee, the World Meteorological Organization retired the names Alberto and Keith 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 Adam and Kirk for the 2000 season.