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List of named storms (Z)

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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 Z .

List of named storms

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• E
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• G
• H
• I
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• K
• L
• M
• N
• O
• P
• Q
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• S
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• U
• V
• W
• X
• Y
• Z

References

Storms[edit]

Note:  indicates the name was retired after that usage in the respective basin

• Zack
  • 1992 – tropical storm that remained over the open western Pacific Ocean
  • 1995 – Category 4 equivalent typhoon that struck the Philippines and Vietnam, killing 110 people
• Zaka
  • 1996 – weak tropical cyclone that passed near New Caledonia, causing minor damage
  • 2011 – tropical cyclone that dissipated northeast of New Zealand, causing no damage
• Zane
  • 1996 – Category 3 equivalent typhoon that crossed the Ryukyu Islands
  • 2013 – developed and dissipated between Queensland and Papua New Guinea
• Zazu (2020) – tropical cyclone that brought heavy surf to Niue and hurricane-force wind gusts to Tonga, but caused no significant damage
• Zeb (1998) – Category 5 equivalent typhoon that killed 122 people when it struck Luzon
• Zelia
  • 1998 – tropical cyclone that developed near Cocos Islands
  • 2011 – severe tropical cyclone that brought heavy rainfall to New Zealand as an extratropical cyclone
• Zeke
  • 1991 – passed over the Philippines before hitting Hainan with minimal damage
  • 1992 – tropical storm off the southwestern Mexican coast
  • 1994 – remained east of Japan
• Zelda
  • 1991 – left heavy damage in the Marshall Islands
  • 1994 – powerful typhoon that took a large, circuitous track through the western Pacific Ocean
• Zena (2016) – killed two people while passing near Fiji
• Zeta
  • 2005–06 – remained out at sea; only the second Atlantic tropical cyclone on record to span two calendar years
  • 2020 – a late-season Category 3 hurricane that made landfall on the Yucatán Peninsula and then in southeastern Louisiana
• Zia (1999) – moved across Japan, killing nine
• Zigzag (2003) – tropical storm that made landfall in northeastern Mindanao
• Zita
  • 1997 – killed 345 people when it struck southern China
  • 2007 – passed through French Polynesia
• Zoe
  • 1974 – moved along the coast of Queensland
  • 2002  – strongest South Pacific tropical cyclone on record in terms atmospheric pressure; affected the Solomon Islands, Fiji, Vanuatu, and Rotuma
• Zola
  • 1990 – Category 3 equivalent typhoon that struck Japan, killing 3 people
  • 1993 – tropical storm that made landfall in Japan causing some flooding
• Zoraida (2013) – killed 44 people while moving through the Philippines and Vietnam
• Zorbas (2018) – Mediterranean tropical-like cyclone that formed and reached Category 1 equivalent strength
• Zosimo (2004) – moved through the Marshall Islands
• Zuman
  • 1987 – short-lived and weak storm that did not approach any islands
  • 1998 – struck Espiritu Santo as a Category 1 cyclone

See also[edit]

• Tropical cyclones portal

• European windstorm names
• Atlantic hurricane season
• Pacific hurricane season
• Tropical cyclone naming
• South Atlantic tropical cyclone
• Tropical cyclone

References[edit]

General

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StormA to StormZ

 

You could be Zeta, or Zola or Zoe

You could be Zena or Zela or Zebe

Zobe or Zib, Zacharia or Zak

You could fell mountains

Like a lumber Jack

But unless you're a storm Z

It won't be no good

To be turning your cartwheels 

In my neighbourhood

 

If you're an Andrew and Angie or Ann

Then you may turn over my light caravan

If you're an Andy an Ant or an Ama

Then you may blow me over like a Hephaestion hammer

Just don't be a Billy a Bob or a Bobe

For if you are either

You'll run right round the globe

And Peter yourself out with Patrick and Petty

And Potter with Harry or Hurley or Henry

And Hurricanes Hurry down a Stormy Alley

For these are encyclopaedias of Cyclone Sally

Chopper and Chaucer, Chav and Chives

Storm Eunice and Eunuch and Eustice and St Ives

Iva and Ivory, Ivy thorn and India

Elephant and Elbow and Elvin and Elver

Eels and Wheels and Well spring and Wheller

And Fatso, and Fortune and Fun times and Fella

Berty borrowed Barry

And Ben stole Steve and Stephanie with Kelly

And Casandra with Eve

Queenie over Quebec

Farmer Giles and Jeeves

Lupin and Lola and lilliput and leaves

And all of them Storm names or so I believe

But it doesn't matter anyway

As long as your house is not cleaved

 

Storm Song

Swaying pines and falling limbs

Stormy times and all sorts of things

 

Blown out in the garbage

Raised up from the ground

tumbled down in the torment

And torrents of sound

Streetlights flashing

Manhole cover protectors blown down

Snow drops and crocuses all hugging the ground

Ducks hunkering down silently

No quack can be heard

As they move in their little soft hurricane herds

Branches are scattered and dead ones do fall

And all that has mattered in the storm's

dancing ball

And the sun comes out gently

And then is chased away by clouds

When the wind blows violently

And blows oh so loud

And the little ducks on the pond

In the waves that surround

Little ripples upon the perfect ground

And sticks that fall like darts from heaven

And cracking whips and howling hounds

The hounds of the sky are howling and chasing

the fox of the sun

And round and round the heavens

They do run, they do run

And this is Storm Eunice

How it has rattled our cage

And this is the pumice of a volcanic age

 

As boys ride on scooters and some women walk dogs

Some cars with their hooters and some toilet bogs

The splitting and the wavering of the trees all around

The cracked limbs open in the hell hole mouth

And the split trunks open as the wind drives south

And north across the Mendips

And backwards and fro

And in through the mouth where the twisted ones go

And all the twisted, twisted poor limbs

That wind has wrapped up like a sweet wrapper at whim

And they pushed just about as far as they'll go

As it comes crashing down with the rainbow

And the clouds they are talking 

They are shouting their rhyme

And the people are sorting their Allotment lines

And they're holding on to their hoovers, 

To their hoops and their twine,

And they're battening down the hatches of their sheds

Just in time

 

And plastic shelters are here always over, over

And this is the way that the dogs call rover

and how do they go, how do they go?

 

It howls yes it howls 

And the falling rain blows

and it howls and it goes

And it howls, it howls, as it goes as it blows

 

All the crooked houses and trees come down

They are wandering all the town

The fences are broken and old blown away

And they make room for a brand-new day

 

And the storm comes down when the storm comes out

And they break down gently and all of them shout

And the walls fall down, and the walls smash out

And they blow down gently, gently about

 

What damage? What damage is seen today?

What damage from the fallen and decay?

Oh, the walls fall down and the crack in clay

What damage, what damage is done today?

 

Oh, the walls fall down, and they fall away

And the winds blow about, blow about all day

And they're making love, and they're making hay

What damage, what damage is done today?