2001 WMHB Atlantic hurricane season

The 2001 Atlantic hurricane season was a fairly active hurricane season in the Atlantic basin that produced 17 tropical cyclones, 15 named storms, eight hurricanes, and three major hurricanes. The season officially ran from June 1 to November 30, dates which conventionally delimit the period of each year in which most tropical cyclones form in the Atlantic basin. The season began with Tropical Storm Allison which formed on June 12, and ended with Hurricane Olga which formed on November 26. The most intense and most damaging storm of the season was Hurricane Iris, which attained Category 4 status on the Saffir-Simpson scale.

Storm Names
The following names were used for storms that formed in the north Atlantic in 2001. This list is the same list that was used in the 1995 season except for Allison, Lorenzo, Michelle, Olga, and Rebekah, which replaced Alicia, Luis, Michelle, Opal, and Roxanne. Storms were named Allison, Lorenzo, Michelle, and Olga for the first time in 2001, and in the case of Allison for the only time.

Retirement
In the spring of 2002 at its annual meeting, the World Meteorological Association retired the names Allison and Iris from its rotating name lists. Their replacements in the 2007 season were Andrea and Imelda.