The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has officially retired Helene and two other Atlantic hurricane names. Names are repeated every six years, except when a storm is deadly enough to warrant retiring its name.

The organization tasked with maintaining rotating lists of hurricane names has retired the monikers of three of 2024's most destructive storms.

H elene was the deadliest hurricane in the United States since Hurricane Katrina in 2005, killing 248 people in multiple states. North Carolina, especially the state’s mountain counties, were extremely hard hit.