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Collectively, tropical cyclones caused more than US$1.2 trillion in damage, unadjusted for inflation, and have killed more than 2.6 million people. Most of these deaths were caused by a few deadly cyclones, including the 1737 Calcutta cyclone , the 1839 Coringa cyclone , the 1931 Shanghai typhoon , the 1970 Bhola cyclone , Typhoon Nina in 1975 ...
The following is a table of named storms in the eastern Pacific Ocean since 1982, when the four rotating naming lists were introduced. Names are used one after the other without regard to year, and when the bottom of one list is reached, the next named storm receives the name at the top of the next list.
Tropical cyclones are named for historical reasons and so as to avoid confusion when communicating with the public, as more than one tropical cyclone can exist at a time. Names are drawn in order from predetermined lists. They are usually assigned to tropical cyclones with one-, three-, or ten-minute windspeeds of at least 65 km/h (40 mph).
This table shows only storms named from the tropical storm list of names for the respective year. This excludes any subtropical storms named from the alternate list of the early 1970s and any storms which did not receive a name.
^α Although Luis produced the highest confirmed wave height for a tropical cyclone, it is possible that Hurricane Ivan produced a wave measuring 131 feet (40 m). [41]^β It is believed that reconnaissance aircraft overestimated wind speeds in tropical cyclones from the 1940s to the 1960s, and data from this time period is generally considered unreliable.
The name ‘Ophelia’ has been on hurricane naming lists for decades and became a major hurricane in 2011 and 2017.
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A look back on Hawaii's hurricane history shows just how rare it is for hurricanes to impact the islands, and what the most impactful storms were. ... Hiki was the wettest tropical cyclone in the ...