List of named storms (A)

Storms are named for historical reasons to avoid confusion when communicating with the public, as more than one storm can exist at a time. Names are drawn in order from predetermined lists. For tropical cyclones, names are assigned when a system has one-, three-, or ten-minute winds of more than 65 km/h (40 mph). Standards, however, vary from basin to basin. For example, some tropical depressions are named in the Western Pacific, while within the Australian and Southern Pacific regions, the naming of tropical cyclones are delayed until they have gale-force winds occurring more than halfway around the storm center.

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  • Abby
    • 1960 – a Category 1 hurricane that struck British Honduras (now Belize)
    • 1964 – hit Texas as a tropical storm
    • 1968 – dropped heavy rain on Cuba and the Southeastern United States
    • 1979 (T7923, 27W, Barang) – strong typhoon that recurved east of the Philippines
    • 1983 (T8305, 05W, Diding) – large, powerful typhoon that impacted Japan as a weakening system
    • 1986 (T8616, 13W, Norming) – hit Taiwan as a moderate typhoon
  • Abela (2016) – one of four tropical cyclones to exist in the southwest Indian Ocean in the month of July
  • Abele (2010) – moderately strong system in the south Indian Ocean that stayed away from land
  • Abigail
    • 1982 – looped around the Coral Sea for over two weeks
    • 2001 – made landfall in Queensland, Australia
  • Able
    • 1950 – a Category 3 hurricane that ultimately hit Nova Scotia as a tropical storm
    • 1951 – an early-season Category 1 hurricane that briefly threatened the Bahamas and North Carolina
    • 1952 – a long-lived, minimal hurricane that ultimately struck South Carolina
  • Ada - a severe tropical cyclone that hit the Whitsunday Region of Queensland in 1970 causing 14 fatalities.[1]
  • Adjali (2014) – passed southwest of Diego Garcia
  • Agatha
    • 1967 – short-lived tropical storm that stayed well away from land
    • 1971 – Category 2 hurricane which made landfall in the Mexican state of Michoacán, causing moderate damage
    • 1975 – brushed the Mexican coast as a tropical storm
    • 1980 – major hurricane that stayed well out to sea
    • 1986 – moved eastward parallel to the Mexican coastline, causing heavy rain
    • 1992 – approached but did not reach the Mexican coast; caused 10 deaths in Mexico
    • 1998 – moved out to sea as a tropical storm
    • 2004 – short-lived system, remained southwest of Mexico
    • 2010 – brought catastrophic flooding to Central America, killing 204 (mostly in Guatemala) and causing nearly $1.1 billion (2010 USD) in damage
    • 2016 – July tropical storm that stayed over the open ocean
  • Agnes
    • 1948 (T4834) – Category 2 typhoon that struck Japan (ja)
    • 1952 (T5220) – Category 5 super typhoon that did not affect land
    • 1957 (T5707) – Category 4 super typhoon which passed over the Ryūkyū Islands at peak strength before making landfall in South Korea as a tropical storm
    • 1960 (T6013, 29W) – a tropical storm that passed over Taiwan in August
    • 1963 (T6308, 18W, Ising) – struck northern Luzon in the Philippines, then crossed the South China Sea and made a second landfall in China
    • 1965 (T6527, 33W) – a tropical storm which formed in the South China Sea and made landfall in Guangdong, China; killed five people in Hong Kong
    • 1968 (T6813, 17W) – powerful typhoon that did not approach land
    • 1971 (September) (T7127, 29W, Warling) – made landfall in Taiwan as a minimal typhoon
    • 1971 (December) – long-lived system which made landfall in Madagascar twice and also brought rain to Réunion
    • 1972 – Category 1 hurricane that affected much of the East Coast of the United States as well as Cuba and Canada, causing 128 deaths and $2.1 billion (1972 USD) in damage. At the time, Agnes was the costliest hurricane to hit the United States, before being surpassed by Hurricane Alicia in 1983.
    • 1974 (T7422, 26W) – strong typhoon that stayed well clear of land
    • 1978 (T7809, 09W) – tropical storm in the South China Sea; killed three in Hong Kong
    • 1981 (T8118, 18W, Pining) – moderate typhoon that caused severe flooding in Taiwan, East China, and South Korea, leaving 159 dead or missing and at least $135 million (1981 USD) in damage
    • 1984 (T8424, 27W, Undang) – deadly and intense typhoon that killed 895 people in the Philippines and another 134 in Vietnam
    • 1988 (T8807, 07W) – severe tropical storm that formed near Iwo Jima, but otherwise did not affect land
  • Alberto
    • 1982 – a Category 1 hurricane that formed near Cuba, where it caused 23 deaths from heavy flooding.
    • 1988 – moved offshore up the east coast of the United States and crossed the Canadian Maritimes; caused no major damage.
    • 1994 – made landfall in Florida, continued over Georgia and Alabama, causing significant damage from flooding; caused 30 deaths and $500 million (1994 USD) damages, mostly in Georgia.
    • 2000 – a long-lasting Category 3 hurricane in the Atlantic which did not approach land.
    • 2006 – made landfall about 50 miles southeast of Tallahassee, Florida, before causing minor damage and flooding in the Carolinas.
    • 2012 – an early-season tropical storm which did not affect land.
    • 2018 – the third most intense May storm on record, made landfall in Florida causing 12 fatalities and heavy flooding.
  • Alby (2018) - In 1978 Severe Tropical Cyclone Alby was regarded as the most devastating tropical cyclone to impact southwestern Western Australia on record.
  • Alcide (2018) – intense tropical cyclone that passed just northeast of Madagascar
  • Alenga (2011) – was named in the South-West Indian Ocean but reached peak intensity in the Australian region causing five deaths.[2]
  • Alex
    • 1980 (T8020, 24W) – a short-lived tropical storm that formed to the north of Iwo Jima
    • 1981 – a Category 2 cyclone in the southern Indian Ocean that stayed well out to sea and did not approach any land
    • 1984 (T8403, 03W, Biring) – a Category 1 typhoon that passed north over Taiwan before dissipating over South Korea
    • 1987 (T8708, 08W, Etang) – a minimal typhoon that brushed north Taiwan before striking mainland China; caused little damage from the typhoon, but its remnants contributed to some significant flooding in Korea
    • 1990 – a Category 5 cyclone (on the Australian scale) that formed in the Timor Sea and moved to the southwest without approaching land
    • 1998 (July) – a weak storm that never affected land in the Atlantic Ocean.
    • 1998 (October) – a weak tropical storm that formed to the east of the Philippines before it was absorbed by the more powerful Typhoon Zeb; Japan Meteorological Agency analyzed it as a tropical depression, not as a tropical storm
    • 2001 – a tropical storm that formed to the north of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands before passing west of 90°E, when it was renamed Andre
    • 2004 – a Category 2 hurricane that came within 10 miles (16 km) of the Outer Banks of North Carolina, then strengthened to Category 3 once clear of land.
    • 2010 – a Category 2 hurricane that made landfall in Belize as a tropical storm and passed over the Yucatán Peninsula before making landfall in Tamaulipas, Mexico, at maximum intensity.
    • 2016 – a rare Category 1 hurricane that formed in mid-January, made landfall in the Azores causing heavy rainfall and gusty winds.
  • Alfa (1973) – weak subtropical storm that paralleled the East Coast of the United States
  • Alice
    • 1947 (T4716) – a Category 4 typhoon that did not approach land
    • 1953 (T5318) – a long-lived Category 3 typhoon which did not affect land; crossed the International Date Line before dissipating
    • 1953 – a strong tropical storm that caused a few deaths in Cuba
    • 1954 (June) – a Category 1 hurricane that killed 55 in Mexico
    • 1954 (December) – the latest Atlantic hurricane ever known to form and only one of two Atlantic storms known to exist in 2 calendar years; originally named as a 1955 storm; caused minimal damage in the Lesser Antilles
    • 1958 (T5811) – a Category 4 typhoon that affected Japan; responsible for over 40 deaths on Hokkaidō
    • 1961 (T6103, 10W) – a Category 1 typhoon that formed in the South China Sea before making landfall near Hong Kong, killing four people there
    • 1964 (T6404, 05W) – a short-lived Category 1 typhoon to the east of the Philippines
    • 1966 (T6616, 16W) – a Category 4 typhoon that made landfall in eastern China
    • 1969 (T6907, 07W) – a tropical storm that affected southern Japan
    • 1972 (T7213, 13W) – a Category 2 typhoon that passed close to Japan's Boso Peninsula
    • 1973 – a Category 1 hurricane which affected Bermuda and eastern Canada
    • 1975 (T7511, 13W) – a Category 1 typhoon that passed over Luzon in the Philippines and the Chinese island of Hainan
    • 1979 (T7901, 01W) – a Category 3 typhoon that caused severe damage in the Marshall Islands
  • Alicia
    • 1983 – a Category 3 hurricane that struck Galveston, Texas
    • 2020 – a tropical cyclone that did not affect any land.
  • Alison
    • 1975 – formed near New Caledonia and moved south towards South Island, New Zealand
    • 1986 – formed in the Timor Sea near Christmas Island before moving west; was renamed Krisostoma when it passed over 90°E
    • 1991 – formed in the central Indian Ocean, well away from land
    • 1998 – formed near the Cocos (Keeling) Islands and brought minor effects to the islands
  • Allison
    • 1989 – partially developed from the remnants of Hurricane Cosme from the Pacific Ocean, it brought heavy rain to the southern United States, killing 11 and causing $500 million (1989 USD) in damage
    • 1995 – a Category 1 hurricane that made landfall on the Florida Panhandle as a tropical storm; killed three and caused minor damage
    • 2001 – the first Atlantic storm to never reach hurricane strength and have its name retired, before Tropical Storm Erika in 2015; struck Houston, Texas, killing 41 and causing $8.5 billion in damages, mostly due to heavy rains and flooding
  • Alma
    • 1946 (T4613) – strong typhoon that moved east of Japan
    • 1958 – tropical storm that made landfall in northeastern Mexico
    • 1962 – struck North Carolina as a tropical storm before heading out to sea
    • 1966 – rare Atlantic major hurricane in June; killed 93, mostly in Honduras, and did $210 million damage (in 1966 dollars), mostly to Cuba
    • 1970 – one of only four May hurricanes in the Atlantic; killed seven in eastern Cuba and one in Miami
    • 1974 – struck Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela, also caused 49 indirect deaths from a plane crash
    • 1984 – tropical storm that remained over the open Pacific Ocean
    • 1990 – earliest hurricane on record in the eastern Pacific proper (east of 140°W), did not affect land
    • 1996 – Category 2 hurricane that killed 20 in Mexico
    • 2002 – one of five Pacific major hurricanes in the month of May, never affected land
    • 2008 – easternmost forming Pacific tropical cyclone, struck Nicaragua and despite minimal impacts became one of three eastern Pacific tropical storms to have its name retired
  • Alpha
    • 1972 – small subtropical storm in May that made landfall in Georgia
    • 2005 – Atlantic tropical storm that caused 26 deaths in Hispaniola
    • 2020 - a subtropical storm that formed near Portugal
  • Althea - A Severe Tropical Cyclone that devastated parts of North Queensland in 1971 causing two deaths.[3]
  • Alvin
    • 2005 – strong November system in the south Indian Ocean
    • 2007 – weak tropical storm that stayed well southwest of Mexico
    • 2013 – low-latitude tropical storm that existed south of Mexico
    • 2019 – minimal hurricane that stayed west of the Baja California peninsula
  • Amanda
    • 1963 – formed in the southwest Indian Ocean and stayed out to sea
    • 1965 – formed in the Arafura Sea and drifted across the Northern Territory and Western Australia
    • 2014 – strongest Pacific hurricane in the month of May
    • 2020 – short-lived tropical storm, made landfall in Guatemala
  • Amara (2013) – brought flooding rain and gusty winds to the island of Rodrigues
  • Ambali (2019) – powerful yet short-lived cyclone in the southwest Indian Ocean
  • Ambo
    • 2004 – was only recognized by PAGASA.
    • 2008 – earliest storm on record to strike China.
    • 2012 – brought torrential rainfall to the Bicol Region, leaving three people dead
    • 2016 – was only recognized by PAGASA and JTWC.
    • 2020 – powerful typhoon that hit the Philippines during the COVID-19 outbreak, causing over ₱1 billion in damages.
  • Amelia
    • 1975 – tropical storm that formed in the Arafura Sea and soon moved inland over Australia's Northern Territory
    • 1978 – formed at the extreme western end of the Gulf of Mexico; caused catastrophic flooding in Texas that resulted in 33 deaths and $110 million (1978 USD) in damage
    • 1981 – meandered across the Gulf of Carpentaria and the Northern Territory before dissipating over the Timor Sea
  • Ana
    • 1979 – formed east of the Lesser Antilles and crossed Leeward Islands
    • 1985 – rounded Bermuda, neared Newfoundland, but dissipated before striking
    • 1991 – paralleled the East Coast of the United States
    • 1997 – wobbled off the Carolinas
    • 2003 – the first recorded Atlantic storm to form in April
    • 2009 – a weak tropical storm that crossed the Leeward Islands and dissipated near Puerto Rico
    • 2014 – the longest-lived hurricane in the central Pacific basin, bringing heavy rain to the Hawaiian Islands
    • 2015 – the earliest storm to make landfall in the United States during the calendar year
  • Anais (2012) – strong preseason storm that was the earliest Intense Tropical Cyclone in the southwest Indian Ocean
  • Anding
    • 1965 – did not affect land
    • 1981 – super typhoon that struck the Philippines, causing $63.3 million in damage, and 595 deaths
    • 1993 – struck China a week after Typhoon Becky
  • Andrea
    • 1970 – crossed into 80 degrees East and stayed out at sea, causing no impact to land
    • 2007 – formed near Florida, brought rain to portions of the Southeast United States
    • 2013 – tropical storm that made landfall in Florida, killing three people
    • 2019 – weak subtropical storm that meandered over the Western Atlantic
  • Andres
    • 1979 – made landfall in Mexico as a tropical depression
    • 1985 – stayed out at sea
    • 1991 – stayed out at sea
    • 1997 – one of two storms to make landfall in El Salvador
    • 2003 – tropical storm that remained at sea.
    • 2009 – minimal hurricane that was parallel to the coast of Mexico; killed three people directly and two people indirectly
    • 2015 – major hurricane that stayed well at sea
  • Andrew
    • 1986 – which paralleled the southeastern United States
    • 1992 – one of only three Category 5 hurricanes to strike the United States, it hit Homestead, Florida and left $27.3 billion in damage
  • Angela
    • 1867 – killed 1,800 people on Philippines
    • 1966 – moderate tropical storm that remained northeast of Madagascar
    • 1972 – short-lived tropical storm that stayed south of Indonesia
    • 1989 (T8923, 26W, Rubing) – very strong typhoon that brushed the Philippines, causing 119 deaths and $8 million (1989 USD) in damage
    • 1992 (T9224, 24W) – made landfall in Vietnam as a tropical storm after spending several days in the South China Sea
    • 1995 (T9520, 29W, Rosing) – powerful and catastrophic typhoon that killed over 900 in the Philippines and nearly ₱11 billion in damage
  • Anggrek (2010) – early-season weak tropical storm
  • Anika (2008) – dissipated northwest of Australia
  • Anita
    • 1955 (T5504) – moderately strong typhoon that moved out to sea
    • 1959 (07W) – was not recognized by the Japan Meteorological Agency
    • 1961 (26W) – was not recognized by the Japan Meteorological Agency
    • 1964 (T6421, 33W) – struck Vietnam as a tropical storm
    • 1967 (T6706, 06W, Gening) – brushed Luzon before moving ashore in Guangdong
    • 1970 (T7010, 11W) – super typhoon which struck Japan, causing several deaths
    • 1973 (T7302, 02W) – entered the Gulf of Tonkin and made landfall in Vietnam as a typhoon
    • 1976 (T7611, 11W, Maring) – low-end typhoon that hit Japan as a tropical storm
    • 1977 – Category 5 Atlantic hurricane, made landfall at peak intensity in Tamaulipas and killed 11 people
    • 2006 – tropical storm that passed between the African mainland and Madagascar
    • 2010 – rare South Atlantic tropical cyclone
  • Anja (2009) – intense tropical cyclone, stayed away from Diego Garcia and Rodrigues
  • Ann
    • 1945 (T4501) – first system of the 1945 Pacific typhoon season
    • 1996 (T9602, 02W, Biring) – weak tropical storm that struck the Philippines in April
    • 1999 (T9917, 23W) – looped across the Yellow Sea, bringing rain to East China, South Korea, and southwestern Japan
    • 2019 – brought minor impacts to Far North Queensland as a weakening tropical low
  • Anna
    • 1947 (T4701) – minimal tropical storm that hit Mindanao
    • 1956 – Category 1 hurricane that made landfall south of Tampico, Mexico
    • 1961 – passed through the Caribbean Sea as a Category 2 hurricane, caused one death and moderate damage in Central America
    • 1965 – existed over the open Atlantic Ocean
    • 1969 – long-lasting tropical storm that tracked from the tropical Atlantic to south of Nova Scotia
    • 1976 – looped over the Azores as an extratropical system
  • Annabelle (2015) – severe tropical storm that passed near Diego Garcia
  • Anne (1988) – Category 4 severe tropical cyclone (on the Australian scale) that impacted the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, northern Vanuatu and New Caledonia.[4]
  • Anthony (2011) – made landfall on the Queensland coast, causing minor damage
  • Arani (2011) – a rare South Atlantic subtropical storm
  • Ariel (2007) – originally named Lee in the Australian region, but crossed into the South-West Indian Ocean and was renamed Ariel
  • Arlene
    • 1959 – a tropical storm which brought flooding to Louisiana, killing one person
    • 1963 – a Category 2 hurricane which passed over Bermuda, only causing light damage
    • 1967 – a Category 1 hurricane in the central Atlantic Ocean which did not affect land
    • 1971 – a tropical storm that moved parallel to the east coast of the United States without making landfall
    • 1981 – a tropical storm that crossed Cuba and the Bahamas, with only minimal effects
    • 1987 – a Category 1 hurricane that spent much of its life as a tropical storm far from land
    • 1993 – a tropical storm that brought heavy rain to Mexico and Texas; killed 29 people
    • 1999 – a tropical storm that drifted past the east of Bermuda
    • 2005 – large tropical storm that made landfall in the Florida Panhandle; its remnants contributed to major flooding in upstate New York
    • 2011 – a strong tropical storm that made landfall on Mexico, killing at least 25 people along its path
    • 2017 – the first April named storm in the Atlantic since Ana of 2003, as well as the strongest storm in April, a very rare occurrence.
  • Arthur
    • 1981 – did not affect land.
    • 1984 – formed on August 28, very late for the first storm; moved over Newfoundland as an extratropical storm; no damages or casualties.
    • 1990 – formed in the Caribbean, strengthened to near hurricane-strength, and dissipated.
    • 1991 – Arthur formed from the remnants of Wasa, but was renamed.
    • 1996 – struck North Carolina as a weak tropical storm.
    • 2002 – weak tropical storm that did not significantly affect land.
    • 2007 – formed in late January in the south Pacific Ocean briefly threatening the Cook
    • 2008 – formed quickly just before moving inland in Belize on May 31.
    • 2014 – a Category 2 hurricane that formed on July 1 near the northwestern Bahamas, struck North Carolina a few days later producing minimal damage.
    • 2020 – pre-season storm which neared North Carolina but moved out to sea before affecting Bermuda.
  • Ava
    • 1962 – tropical storm that stayed off the Mexican Pacific coast
    • 1965 – tropical storm that never affected land
    • 1969 – latest first named storm in the East Pacific basin
    • 1973 – earliest-forming Category 5 hurricane in the East Pacific basin
    • 1977 – tropical storm that stayed out to sea
    • 2018 – made landfall in Madagascar, killing at least 51 people and leaving 54,000 homeless

See also

References
  1. Gibbs, W. J. (June 1970). "Report by Director of Meteorology on Cyclone 'Ada'" (PDF). Bureau of Meteorology. Archived (PDF) from the original on 27 January 2013. Retrieved 22 April 2017.
  2. "Tropical Cyclone Alby". Bureau of Meteorology. 2011. Retrieved 4 February 2011.
  3. Bureau of Meteorology (July 1972). "Report by Director of Meteorology on Cyclone Althea" (PDF). Australian Government Publishing Service. Archived (PDF) from the original on 22 March 2012. Retrieved 1 March 2017.
  4. "1988 Tropical Cyclone ANNE (1988006S05182)". International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship. Retrieved January 26, 2020.
General
  1. "Atlantic hurricane best track (HURDAT version 2)" (Database). United States National Hurricane Center. May 25, 2020.
  2. National Hurricane Center; Hurricane Research Division; Central Pacific Hurricane Center. "The Northeast and North Central Pacific hurricane database 1949–2019". United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Weather Service. Retrieved 1 October 2020. A guide on how to read the database is available here.
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