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A Guide to Search Results for "Tropical Storm Isidore" help - feedback - sponsor this guide Web surfers looking for information about "Tropical Storm Isidore" (often misspelled as "Isadore") used the search term "Hurricane Isidore" long before Isidore had been officially classified as a hurricane in 2002. This created a certain amount of confusion because there was a Hurrican Isidore which occurred from September 24th to October 1st, 1996. Moreover, despite the massive flooding caused by Isidore in 2002, it was reclassified as a tropical storm when it failed to maintain hurricane strength winds. A tropical storm is classified as a hurricane if its maximum sustained winds exceed 33 meters per second, but only if it occurs in the North Atlantic Ocean, in the North Pacific Ocean east of the dateline, or in the South Pacific Ocean east of 160°E longtitude. In other areas, hurricanes are referred to as typhoons, tropical cyclones, severe tropical cyclones, or severe cyclonic storms. This terminology is defined by the World Meteorological Organization. It is standard practice to use an alphabetical list of alternating male and female names to identify hurricanes, with one name for each letter of the alphabet, and when a hurricane achieves a certain amount of notoriety, it is standard practice to retire its name and replace it with another name of the same gender that begins with the same letter. Otherwise, the names of hurricanes are routinely recycled. As noted above, this has caused a certain amount of confusion among people searching for information about Tropical Storm Isidore, as Isidore was the name of a hurricance which occurred in 1996; unless the name is retired, it will be used again in 2008.
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