List of named storms (W)
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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- Walding
- 1965 - PAGASA name for Typhoon Trix, which struck Japan
- 1977 - PAGASA name for Typhoon Lucy, which turned away from the eastern Philippines
- 1981 - PAGASA name for Typhoon Gay, which brushed the coast of Japan
- 1989 - PAGASA name for Typhoon Irma, an intense typhoon in the Philippine Sea
- 1993 - PAGASA name for Typhoon Abe, which developed near Luzon and struck the Chinese province of Guangdong
- Waldo
- Wali (2014) - remained southeast of Hawaii
- Wallie (1965) - struck southern Mexico
- Wally
- Walt
- Walter
- Waka (2001) - one of the most damaging tropical cyclones to hit the island of Tonga in the South Pacific
- Wanda
- 1945 - tropical storm that moved from the Philippines through the South China Sea
- 1951 - typhoon that moved through the Philippines, killing 82
- 1956 - typhoon that killed over 4,000 people in China
- 1959 - short-lived storm east of Hawaii
- 1962 - the most intense tropical cyclone on record in Hong Kong
- 1965 - April typhoon that dissipated near Palau
- 1967 - slow-moving typhoon that passed east of Japan
- 1971 - struck Vietnam, killing 56 people and grounding air operations in the ongoing war
- January 1974 - tropical storm that remained northeast of the Philippines
- January 1974 - tropical storm that struck near Brisbane, Australia, killing 16 people
- 1977 - short-lived tropical storm south of Japan
- Ward
- Warling
- 1971 - PAGASA name for Typhoon Agnes, which struck Taiwan
- 1979 - PAGASA name for Typhoon Tip, the strongest tropical cyclone worldwide recorded by atmospheric pressure
- 1983 - PAGASA name for Typhoon Orchid, which killed 170 people when it drifted off the eastern Philippines, mostly related to the sinking of the MV Dona Cassandra
- 1991 - PAGASA name for Tropical Storm Wilda, which crossed the central Philippines
- Warren
- 1981 - struck Hainan Island and Vietnam
- 1984 - meandered in the South China Sea due to the larger Typhoon Vanessa
- 1988 - struck southeastern China, where it destroyed 13,000 homes and killed 17
- 1995 - struck Australia's Northern Territory
- Wasa (1991) - powerful cyclone that left heavy damage in French Polynesia, later renamed Arthur
- Washi
- Wati (2006) - approached and moved southeastward away from the east coast of Australia
- Watoria (1976) - moved along the east coast of Australia
- Wayne
- Weling
- 1978 - PAGASA name for Typhoon Lola, which crossed the Philippines and later struck southern China
- 1982 - PAGASA name for Typhoon Nancy, which killed 128 people when it struck the Philippines and Vietnam
- 1986 - PAGASA name for Typhoon Joe, which passed northeast of Luzon
- 1994 - PAGASA name for Tropical Storm Luke, which brushed northern Luzon before crossing Hainan and Vietnam
- Welming (1967) - PAGASA name for Typhoon Emma, which killed 300 people while crossing the Philippines
- Welpring
- 1964 - PAGASA name for Typhoon Kathy, which moved across Japan
- 1976 - PAGASA name for Typhoon Louise, an intense typhoon that recurved northeast of the Philippines
- 1980 - PAGASA name for Typhoon Wynne, which passed south of Japan
- 1984 - PAGASA name for Typhoon Bill, which meandered off the east coast of the Philippines
- 1988 - PAGASA name for Tropical Storm Tess, which developed over the Philippines and struck southern Vietnam
- 2000 - PAGASA name for Typhoon Soulik, which lasted until early January 2001
- Wendy
- 1957 - crossed northern Luzon and southeastern China, killing 16
- 1960 - struck the Japanese island of Shikoku as a typhoon
- 1963 - hit Taiwan and eastern China
- 1965 - passed southeast of Japan
- 1968 - passed south of Taiwan and Hong Kong before striking southern China in Guangdong
- 1971 - passed east of Japan before dissipating over the Kamkatchka Peninsula
- 1972 - powerful cyclone that passed near Solomon Islands and New Caledonia
- 1974 - drifted near Luzon and Taiwan
- 1978 - typhoon that crossed Okinawa and later Kyushu
- 1999 - deadly tropical storm that killed 133 when it brushed Luzon and struck Guangdong in southern China
- Wene (2000) - crossed from the western Pacific into the central Pacific as a tropical storm
- Weng (2003) - PAGASA name for Typhoon Nepartak, which crossed the Philippines and dissipated over Hainan, killing 13 people
- Wening
- Wes (1998) - killed 10 people while moving near French Polynesia
- Wila (1988) - short-lived tropical storm southeast of Hawaii
- Wilda
- 1955 - developed near the Marshall Islands and remained east of Guam
- 1959 - struck southern China and South Korea as a tropical depression
- 1961 - brought flooding rains to eastern Vietnam
- 1964 - killed 42 people when it struck Japan as a typhoon
- 1967 - remained east of the Philippines
- 1970 - typhoon that killed 11 people when it struck the Japanese island of Kyushu
- 1973 - developed over Luzon and hit southeastern China in Fujian
- 1976 - hit western Japan
- 1991 - moved across the Philippines
- 1994 - remained east of Guam and Japan
- Wilf (1979) - formed southwest of Indonesia, and was renamed Tropical Cyclone Danitza upon crossing 90º E
- Willa
- William
- Willy
- Wilma
- 1952 - downed a plane over the Philippines
- 1975 - tropical storm that struck the Kimberley region of Western Australia
- 2005 - strongest Atlantic hurricane on record by pressure; caused $29.4 billion in damage along its path from the Caribbean to Florida in October 2005
- 2011 - only known tropical cyclone to hit New Zealand, where it caused flooding damage
- 2013 - long-lived tropical depression that moved from the Philippines, across Indochina and southern India, before dissipating over the Arabian Sea; named by PAGASA
- Wini (1987) - left heavy damage when it passed near the Samoas
- Winifred
- 1986 – one of the worst tropical cyclones to make landfall in northern Queensland on record.
- 1992 – made landfall southeast of Manzanillo, Colima, causing minor damage.
- Winnie
- 1953 - remained northeast of Guam
- 1958 - killed 31 people while crossing Taiwan
- 1961 - struck Bangladesh, killing 11,468 people
- 1964 - crossed the Philippines and Hainan, killing around 100 people
- 1966 - hit Japan and South Korea as a tropical storm
- 1969 - dissipated between Luzon and Taiwan
- 1972 - hit eastern China as a tropical storm
- 1975 - typhoon that remained east of Japan
- March 1978 - cyclone off the west coast of Australia
- November 1978 - tropical storm that passed of Guam
- 1983 - the only December Pacific hurricane on record, which stalled off the southwest coast of Mexico
- 1997 - long-tracked typhoon that killed 372 people when it passed north of Taiwan and moved ashore in Zhejiang
- 2004 - weak but deadly tropical depression that moved across the Philippines, killing at least 842 people
- Winona
- 1982 - killed people while crossing Luzon
- 1985 - damaged 7,500 houses in southeastern China
- 1989 - rare January Central Pacific storm that crossed much of the Pacific Ocean
- 1990 - developed from the remnants of Tropical Storm Tasha, and later struck Japan
- 1993 - moved across the Philippines and South China Sea
- Winsome (2001) - killed two people when it struck Australia's Northern Territory
- Winston (2016) - strongest storm to hit Fiji on record, leaving 44 fatalities and US$1.6 billion in damage
- Wipha
- Wukong
- Wutip
- Wynne
- 1980 - strongest typhoon of the season, passed through Ryukyu Islands twice
- 1984 - passed between Taiwan and Luzon before striking China, killed three fishermen on Luzon
- 1987 - typhoon that weakened while passing east of Japan
References
- "Atlantic hurricane best track (HURDAT version 2)" (Database). United States National Hurricane Center. May 25, 2020.
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