Fictional Tropical Storm Names

[AdamFirst]

Unbelievable that Hurricane Ditka hasn't been mentioned yet.

[Graham1973]

Sorry to have missed that one.

Interesting to note though that so far only one author has included a name that would never appear in a real storm listing 'Queenie' in Summer of Storms.

[Graham1973]

Back again with four storms from a thriller by someone called Jay Bonansinga, which sees the hero chase down a serial killer who likes to kill his victims in the eye of a hurricane.

[Hurricaneman]

Hurricane Chuck Norris: No one lives unless it lets them

[beoumont]

I recall a Disney / Science productions on TV in the 1950s when I was in elementary school that featured an (fictitious) E. Pac. Hurricane Mariah. Of course they used the song "They Called the Wind Mariah," throughout. When that hurricane hit Los Angeles, there was snow in the Calif. mountains as well.

Goofy, huh? That's all folks.

[beoumont]

Back again with four storms from a thriller by someone called Jay Bonansinga, which sees the hero chase down a serial killer who likes to kill his victims in the eye of a hurricane.

There was an episode (terrible) of the TV show "Criminal Minds" this year that centered on a serial killer who did his dirty deeds only during tornado outbreaks in tornado alley - if that is what you are referring to.

I personally was accused of being a cereal killer one day after I killed a whole box of Wheaties one morning.

[Graham1973]

Back again with four storms from a thriller by someone called Jay Bonansinga, which sees the hero chase down a serial killer who likes to kill his victims in the eye of a hurricane.

There was an episode (terrible) of the TV show "Criminal Minds" this year that centered on a serial killer who did his dirty deeds only during tornado outbreaks in tornado alley - if that is what you are referring to.

No it was not, but I'll agree that it was a dog of an episode, and now on to some storms from a dog of a book, Typhoons Charlie & Donald, from a book whose author has some very strange ideas about how storms are named in the 1990's

Each one has a name for ease of reference. In the Caribbean, hurricanes are traditionally given feminine names. In the Pacifc, the tradition is for mens names, running in strict alphabetical order. The last one, two months previously, was Typhoon Charlie. This new storm was therefore a 'D'. Typhoon Donald, as a wit in the Hong Kong typhoon centre had already christened it.

The Iron Man, John Watson, 1998

Was this ever the case...?

[Cryomaniac]

There was a Hurricane Bill in an episode of the (somewhat surreal at times) British comedy series 2.4 Children

[Graham1973]

Or Hurricane Bubba from some kids assignment

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47AVM2sQ5P4[/youtube]

[Graham1973]

Added a storm I missed from Jay Bonansinga's novel 'Twisted'. Even though the author did not intend it to be possible I'm going to try and work out the landfall dates of all four named hurricanes from his fictional 2006 Atlantic Hurricane Season, he gives the date & landfall of the last as:

Hurricane Fiona, 23/09/2006, Category 5, New Orleans, La



Estimated Course

The others will follow as I work them out from the internal clues...

[Graham1973]

In the novel 'The Hermes Fall' John Baxters Hurricane Joyce is described as having windspeeds "...more than double the record of 171 knots - almost two hundred miles an hour set by the hurricane in 1966." But which 1966 hurricane was he referring to?

[Aslkahuna]

The Disney film referenced was an adaptation of the book Storm by George Stewart which is about the effects of the storm Maria (so named by the Met who follows the storm and pronounced Mariah). However, the storm was NOT a hurricane but instead a very intense North Pacific Winter storm that dumps a whole bunch of snow on the Sierra. The book was written in 1940 and the Meteorology is severely dated, but for many in my day and age it was the catalyst that started us on the road to weather weenieism. I still have a paperbound copy of that book.

Steve

[hurricanexyz]

I decided to look up one of the films on IMDB and found that they made a goof in their goofs section

Errors in geography: The storm is called "Hurricane Elizabeth" but is happening in the Pacific. What is called a hurricane in the Atlantic is called a Typhoon in the Pacific.

IMDB: Storm (Video 1999), Goofs

I thought that storms in the eastern pacific were called Hurricanes...

they are i guess imbd messed up

[Graham1973]

I decided to look up one of the films on IMDB and found that they made a goof in their goofs section

Errors in geography: The storm is called "Hurricane Elizabeth" but is happening in the Pacific. What is called a hurricane in the Atlantic is called a Typhoon in the Pacific.

IMDB: Storm (Video 1999), Goofs

I thought that storms in the eastern pacific were called Hurricanes...

they are i guess imbd messed up

Or whoever supplied the information to them.

BTW, did anyone figure out just which 'hurricane' John Baxter was referring to in the quote I posted back in 2012?

[Graham1973]

Found another one, Hurricane Brenda from a made-for-tv casino heist film called Windfall.

She's been boosted by Global Warming all the way up to...Category 3...?

[FLCrackerGirl]

The short-lived 2012 Fox series, "The Finder", featured an episode "Eye of the Storm" with Hurricane Catherine hitting the fictional Florida locale of Looking Glass Key.

Eccentric Detective Walter Sherman takes on a case of a missing high-school girl.
While trapped in the dive bar, Ends of the Earth, the various cast members become a "human search engine" to help resolve the mystery when the internet goes down.

Really brilliant, funny and fast paced show. Definitely worth a watch ... even if it's just to see a garden hose used as "horizontal rain" to blast a diorama.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Finder_(U.S._TV_series)

[Graham1973]

Really brilliant, funny and fast paced show. Definitely worth a watch ... even if it's just to see a garden hose used as "horizontal rain" to blast a diorama.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Finder_(U.S._TV_series)

Unlike the makers of Windfall, who, as the trailer shows were able to afford both (bad) CGI and a wind machine!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOdzNxjHVDA[/youtube]

Look at those junkers fly...!

[Graham1973]

Latest storm comes from a romantic thriller in which murderers try to use a Hurricane to cover up murder.