Hurricane Kate

The name Kate or Katie has been used for nineteen

tropical cyclone A tropical cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm system characterized by a low-pressure center, a closed low-level atmospheric circulation, strong winds, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain and squalls. Depend ...

s worldwide, five in the

Atlantic Ocean The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about . It covers approximately 20% of Earth's surface and about 29% of its water surface area. It is known to separate the " Old World" of Africa, Europe ...

, one in the western

Pacific Ocean The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the continen ...

, ten in the western

, and three in the Southern Hemisphere. In the Atlantic: * Hurricane Katie (1955) – struck Hispaniola *

Hurricane Kate (1985) Hurricane Kate was the final in a series of tropical cyclones to impact the United States during 1985. It was the eleventh named storm, seventh hurricane, and third major hurricane of the 1985 Atlantic hurricane season, Kate originated from t ...

– Category 3 hurricane, grazed Cuba, directly struck Panama City, Florida * Hurricane Kate (2003) – Category 3 hurricane, brushed Newfoundland * Hurricane Kate (2015) – Category 1 hurricane, brushed the Bahamas *

Tropical Storm Kate (2021) The 2021 Atlantic hurricane season was the third-most active Atlantic hurricane season on record, producing 21 named storms and the second season in a row (third overall) in which the designated 21-name list of storm names was exhausted. ...

– weak and disorganized tropical storm which stayed at sea In the Eastern Pacific: * Hurricane Kate (1976) – briefly threatened Hawaii In the western Pacific: * Tropical Storm Kate (1945) – struck Japan * Typhoon Kate (1951) (T5106) – affected Japan * Typhoon Kate (1955) (T5521) *

Tropical Storm Kate (1959) The 1959 Pacific typhoon season was regarded as one of the most devastating years for Pacific typhoons on record, with China, Japan and South Korea sustaining catastrophic losses. The scope of this article is limited to the Pacific Ocean, north ...

(T5910, 20W) * Typhoon Kate (1962) (T6206, 44W) * Typhoon Kate (1964) (T6430, 45W) – struck Vietnam *

Typhoon Kate (1967) The 1967 Pacific typhoon season has no official bounds; it ran year-round in 1967, but most tropical cyclones tend to form in the northwestern Pacific Ocean between June and December. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when ...

(T6719, 21W, Pepang) *

Typhoon Kate (1970) Super Typhoon Kate, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Titang, was the second of two super typhoons to strike the Philippines within a week in October 1970, the first being Super Typhoon Joan. As a result, Kate produced heavy damage and over 6 ...

– killed 915 people in the Philippines *

Tropical Storm Kate (1973) The 1973 Pacific typhoon season has no official bounds; it ran year-round in 1973, but most tropical cyclones tend to form in the northwestern Pacific Ocean between June and December. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when ...

(T7312, 13W) * Typhoon Kate (1999) (T9901, 04W, Diding) In the Southern Hemisphere: * Cyclone Kate (1962) – South-West Indian Ocean cyclone that struck eastern Madagascar * Cyclone Kate (2006) – short-lived (Australian region) Category 2 cyclone in the northwestern Coral Sea, not a threat to land * Cyclone Kate (2014) – severe (Australian region) Category 4 cyclone that moved from the South-East Indian Ocean basin into the South-West Indian Ocean basin, not a threat to land {{DEFAULTSORT:Kate Atlantic hurricane set index articles Pacific hurricane set index articles Pacific typhoon set index articles South-West Indian Ocean cyclone set index articles Australian region cyclone set index articles