[Chewbacca]

Good idea, but you should also include the year of the storm for historical reference.

"For example Hurricane 3-1. The 1st Cat3 hurricane of the season."

This should be something like 3-1-2003, or 1-3-2003, or better yet for cataloging on a spreadsheet 2003.1.3.

[Ole Okie]

This should be something like 3-1-2003,

Can we just refer to it as "Three" for convenience?

Somehow, "Hurricane Three dash oh one dash two oh oh three" doesn't exactly sparkle like 24K gold as does plain old "Three". Those who keep the records can keep up with the full designation.

And the next hurricane can be named "Hurry Cane Four", and on and on. Why, come to think of it, we can handle an infinite number of hurricanes thusly.

And that's probably better than using names of diverse ethnicity.

And Shiela Jackson-Lee can go powder her nose.