Posted on 08/27/2026 1:36:51 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Dolly Parton’s death this week has nothing to do with the name of the new tropical storm that formed in the Atlantic on Thursday, according to the National Hurricane Center.
“The timing of the use of the name Dolly for this storm is purely coincidental,” said NHC senior hurricane specialist Eric Blake.
The NHC felt the need to clarify that the name Dolly has been on the official Atlantic hurricane season name list for some time, as the alphabetical choices originate from the World Meteorological Organization.
The WMO maintains a list of six years’ worth of names for 21 of the 26 letters of the alphabet to assign to storms, omitting Q, U, X, Y and Z.
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The timing, though, did not escape the meteorologically inclined this week. Commenting on two systems that were brewing at the time in the Atlantic, WESH’s Eric Burris posted after Parton’s death on Wednesday, “The next name is Dolly. Just saying.”
Dolly has been used before, first chosen as a replacement for Diana after the 1990 hurricane season, and then first used in 1996.
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Found some more on Wikipedia from other regions and before 1996.
The name Dolly has been used for fourteen tropical cyclones worldwide.
In the Atlantic Ocean:
Hurricane Dolly (1953) – strong hurricane that weakened rapidly before passing over Bermuda
Hurricane Dolly (1954) – stayed far from land
Hurricane Dolly (1968) – moved up the east coast of the United States but did not make landfall
Tropical Storm Dolly (1974) – did not strike land
Hurricane Dolly (1996) – made landfall at Quintana Roo, Mexico and again at Tamaulipas, Mexico
Tropical Storm Dolly (2002) – never threatened land
Hurricane Dolly (2008) – Category 2 hurricane that caused $1.5 billion in damage to Texas and Mexico
Tropical Storm Dolly (2014) – made landfall in Mexico
Tropical Storm Dolly (2020) – formed off the coast of the United States as a subtropical depression
Tropical Storm Dolly (2026) – currently active
In the West Pacific Ocean:
Typhoon Dolly (1946) – made landfall in China’s Zhejiang province
In the Australian region:
Tropical Cyclone Dolly (1965) – never impacted land
In the South-West Indian Ocean:
Tropical Storm Dolly (1972) – developed off the coast of Madagascar that later grazed Réunion
In the South Pacific Ocean:
Cyclone Dolly (1970) – a Category 3 severe tropical cyclone that minimal affected Vanuatu
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