List of named storms (O)

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.

This list covers the letter O.

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Note: † indicates the name was retired after that usage in the respective basin.
  • 1983 – considered the worst tropical cyclone in the history of Arizona, whose remnants caused devastating and record-breaking flooding in the state.
  • 1989 – a Category 4 hurricane whose remnants brought notable rainfall to Southern California.
  • 2001 – a category 1 hurricane, never threatened land.
  • 2013 – a powerful tropical storm that made landfall in Baja California in October 2013.
  • 2019 – never threatened land.
  • 1964 – never threatened land.
  • 1982 – never threatened land.
  • 1985 – a category 2 typhoon that hit Japan.
  • 1988 – never threatened land.
  • Ogni (2006) – throughout Andhra Pradesh, Ogni killed 24 people, mostly on rice or shrimp farms damage totaled $47 million.
  • 2004 – a weak tropical storm that hit eastern China.
  • 2008 – the most intense tropical cyclone in the Northwest Pacific Ocean during the 2000s, tied with Nida in 2009, and the most intense tropical cyclone worldwide in 2008.
  • 2012 – a powerful, late-forming typhoon that devastated the Philippines with tropical storm strength, and battered Northern Vietnam with hurricane-force winds at landfall on October 28, 2012.
  • 2020 – tropical depression that affected the Philippines and Vietnam.
  • 1985 – never threatened land.
  • 1997 – an erratic and long-lived tropical cyclone that brought heavy rainfall to regions of Mexico, which would be devastated by Hurricane Pauline a week later.
  • 2003 – a minimal hurricane that made landfall in Mexico as a tropical storm.
  • 2005† – a powerful Category 5 cyclone that caused severe damage in both Samoa and American Samoa.
  • 2009 – approached Baja California.
  • 2015 – a Category 4 major hurricane that moved into the Central Pacific and then back into the Eastern Pacific while still tropical.
  • 2021 – a Category 2 Pacific hurricane that struck the Baja California Peninsula in September 2021.
  • 1948 – a strong tropical storm that formed in the South China Sea.
  • 1954 – a category 3 typhoon, never threatened land.
  • 1958 – never threatened land.
  • 1961 – Category 1 typhoon that hit southern China.
  • 1964 – formed and remained in the Gulf of Tonkin.
  • 1966 – a weak tropical storm that affected the Philippines.
  • 1970 – a powerful tropical cyclone affected Japan.
  • 1972 – struck the Marshall Islands and the Northern Marianas, causing minimal damage.
  • 1976 – affected the Philippines and Japan.
  • 1981 – a powerful tropical cyclone stayed at sea.
  • 1999 – killed 106 people in North and South Korea and caused US$657 million in damages.
  • 2000 – paralleled the Kimberley and Pilbara coasts.
  • 2001 – large Category 1 hurricane that had no effect on land.
  • 2007 – off-season storm that killed 40 people, mostly in the Dominican Republic.
  • 2010 – crossed the lower Cape York Peninsula and then meandered in the southern Gulf of Carpentaria.
  • 2019 – formed in the Gulf of Mexico and became post-tropical shortly thereafter.
  • 1993 – made landfall in Fiji.
  • 2010† – affected French Polynesia.
  • 1967 – struck Baja California.
  • 1971 – continuation of Atlantic Hurricane Irene; hit Mexico.
  • 1975 – caused heavy damage in Mazatlán.
  • 1978 – continuation of Hurricane Greta; struck Mexico.
  • 1982 – brought rain to California.
  • 1994 – never threatened land.
  • 1996† – a powerful tropical cyclone that passing over Barrow Island off the Western Australian northwest coast, and caused major landfall on the Pilbara coast, Pannawonica, and Mardie.
  • 2000 – never threatened land.
  • 2006 – never threatened land.
  • 2012 – never threatened land.
  • 2018 – made landfall in Hawaii as a tropical storm.
  • Olwyn (2015)† –a powerful tropical cyclone that caused extensive damage across the northwestern coast of Western Australia in March 2015.
  • Oma (201) – impacted Vanuatu, New Caledonia and the Solomon Islands
  • 1992† – a category 4 super typhoon in the Pacific Ocean, struck Guam, Taiwan, and China, causing 2 deaths and about half a billion dollars in damage. The name was retired after the 1992 season, and was replaced with Oscar for the 1995 season.
  • 2008 – a category 4 hurricane that grazed the Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands, doing minor to moderate damage and causing 1 indirect death.
  • 2020 – minimal tropical storm that caused rip currents and swells in the Carolinas, earliest fifteenth named storm on record in the Atlantic.
  • 2006 – wind shear from Typhoon Soulik prevented any intensification.
  • 2014 – the most intense tropical cyclone worldwide in 2014, and struck Japan as a large tropical system. It also indirectly affected the Philippines and Taiwan.
  • 2018† – a very powerful and catastrophic tropical cyclone that caused extensive damage in Guam, the Philippines and South China in September 2018.
  • 2001 – a weak storm that completed a loop to the east of Samar Island before moving further out to sea.
  • 2005 – made landfall in the northern Philippines.
  • 2009† – made landfall in the Philippines and causing massive flooding in Metro Manila and other nearby provinces.
  • 2003 – hit near Hong Kong.
  • 2011 – affected Japan
  • 2015 – a weak tropical cyclone that caused only minimal damages in the Philippines
  • 2019 – a moderately strong typhoon that severely affected Taiwan, East China and South Korea
  • 1945 – struck Japan
  • 1946 – struck the Philippines
  • 1955 – struck Japan
  • 1959 –
  • 1962 – struck Taiwan, China, Korea and Japan.
  • 1964 – struck the Philippines
  • 1967 –
  • 1970 –
  • 1973 –
  • 1976 –
  • 1995† – a Category 4 hurricane that caused severe and extensive damage along the northern Gulf Coast of the United States.
  • 1997 – struck Japan
  • 1948 – a weak tropical storm struck southern China
  • 1953 – a Category 3 typhoon hit Hong Kong and Vietnam.
  • 1958 – a Category 5 typhoon caused widespread damage on several islands of the Western Pacific.
  • 1960† – a long-lived Category 4 storm in 1960 that devastated the atoll of Ulithi.
  • 1986 – a weak tropical cyclone passed near Cocos Island.
  • 1996 – remained far from land.
  • 2005 – a slow-moving hurricane that battered the coast of North Carolina.
  • 2008 – moved parallel to the coast of Australia.
  • 2011 – a powerful Category 4 hurricane that affected Bermuda and Newfoundland (as a post-tropical storm).
  • 2017 – a Category 3 hurricane that affected the Azores; after transitioning to an extratropical cyclone, it struck Ireland, Great Britain and Norway.
  • 2023 – a tropical storm that formed off the coast of North Carolina and caused flooding along the east coast of the United States.
  • Oquira (2020) – a South Atlantic subtropical cyclone off the coast of Rio Grande do Sul
  • 1951 – approached the Philippines.
  • 1963 –
  • 1966 – struck China.
  • 1968 – struck the Philippines.
  • 1972 – struck the Philippines and China.
  • 1975 – struck China.
  • 1978 – approached Taiwan.
  • 1970 – hit eastern Oaxaca, Mexico.
  • 1974 – continuation of Atlantic Hurricane Fifi that crossed into the Pacific.
  • 1986 – crossed into the Central Pacific a little over 21 hours after formation.
  • 1992 – made landfall on the Big Island of Hawaii.
  • 2016 – never threatened land.
  • 2022 – a powerful category 4 hurricane struck southern Sinaloa.
  • Orson
  • 1983† – one of the worst tropical cyclones to affect Fiji.
  • 1993 – a weak tropical cyclone moved on a generally west-southwest course parallel to the Kimberley and Pilbara coasts.
  • 1995 – a powerful typhoon that affected Japan and killed 8 people and left many other people missing.
  • 2004 – a powerful tropical cyclone that did not affect land.
  • 2012 – a minimal tropical storm that formed in the open ocean.
  • 2018 – a Category 2 hurricane that did not affect land.
  • 1981 –
  • 1987 –
  • 2005 –threatened the Baja California Peninsula, but turned away.
  • 2017 – no threat to land.
  • 2023 – Category 5 hurricane that recently made landfall near Acapulco, Mexico; the strongest landfalling storm in the Eastern Pacific Ocean on record, and the only Pacific hurricane to do so at Category 5 intensity
  • 1977 – made landfall near Bowen, Queensland storm caused minimal wind damage but caused extensive beach erosion.
  • 1998 – struck China.
  • 2004 – remained far from land.
  • 2010 – brought heavy rain to the northeastern Caribbean before moving out into the Atlantic Ocean.
  • 2016† – made landfall in Nicaragua as a Category 3 hurricane, bringing torrential rainfall to Central America; later emerged into the Eastern Pacific Ocean as a tropical storm and then dissipated.
  • 1979 – a powerful category 3 typhoon made landfall near Osaka.
  • 1982 – a category 3 typhoon not affect.
  • 1986 – a weak tropical storm, did not make landfall.
  • 1989 – did not make landfall.
  • 1990 – a powerful Category 5 typhoon that crossed the Marshall Islands and the Caroline Islands in mid to late November and caused extensive damage to many islands.
  • 1994 – a powerful tropical storm struck the Philippines.
  • 2018 – long-lived and erratic cyclone that affected Queensland.

See also

References
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