2009 What-might-have-been Atlantic hurricane season (Cooper)

The 2009 Atlantic hurricane season was a below-average season that produced a total of 12 tropical cyclones, 11 named storms, 3 hurricanes, and 2 major hurricanes. It officially began on June 1 and ended on November 30, dates that conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones develop in the Atlantic basin, although the first named storm, Ana, formed on May 28, 4 days before the season officially began.

Storm names
The following list of names was used for named storms that formed in the North Atlantic in 2009. The names not retired from this list were used again in the 2015 season. This was the same list used in the 2003 season, with the exceptions of Elsa, Kaitlyn, and Megan, which replaced Erika, Kate, and Mindy, respectively. The names Elsa and Kaitlyn were used for the first time this year.

Retirement
In the spring of 2010, at the 32nd session of the RA IV hurricane committee, the World Meteorological Organization retired the name Fabian from its rotating name lists due to the deaths and damage it caused, and it will not be used again for another Atlantic hurricane. It was replaced with Fred for the 2015 season.