As the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season is set to begin June 1, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) has released the names for this year’s tropical storms.

• Alberto
• Beryl
• Chris
• Debby
• Ernesto
• Francine
• Gordon
• Helene
• Isaac
• Joyce
• Kirk
• Leslie
• Milton
• Nadine
• Oscar
• Patty
• Rafael
• Sara
• Tony
• Valerie
• William

Since 1953, Atlantic tropical storms have been named from lists generated by the NHC.

Now, they are maintained and updated through a “strict procedure by an international committee of the World Meteorological Organization,” according to the NHC.

Six lists, spanning hurricane seasons 2024 through 2029, are used in rotation and recycled every six years— i.e., the 2023 list will be used again in 2029.

The only time that there is a change in the list is if a storm is so deadly or costly that the future use of its name for a different storm would be inappropriate for reasons of sensitivity, the NHC said.

Several names have been retired since the lists were first created.

If a storm forms during the off-season, it will take the next name in the list based on the current calendar date.

If more than 21 named tropical cyclones occur in the Atlantic basin in a season, any additional storms will take names from an alternate list of names approved by the WMO.