The name Harriet has been used for eleven
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. Dep ...
s worldwide: seven in the Western Pacific Ocean, one in the South-West Indian Ocean, and three in the Australian Region of the Indian Ocean.
In the Western Pacific:
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Typhoon Harriet (1952) – hit China as a Category 3-equivalent typhoon.
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Typhoon Harriet (1956)
The 1956 Pacific typhoon season has no official bounds; it ran year-round in 1956, 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 ...
– struck Japan.
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Typhoon Harriet (1959) (58W) – hit the Eastern Philippines as a Category 4-equivalent typhoon, caused considerable property and crop damage on Luzon.
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Tropical Storm Harriet
Tropical Storm Harriet was a tropical cyclone that hit Thailand and East Pakistan in October 1962. It formed in the South China Sea before making landfall in Southern Thailand and crossing the Malay Peninsula into the Bay of Bengal. It caused ex ...
(1962) – hit Thailand, crossed into the North Indian Ocean where it hit East Pakistan.
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Typhoon Harriet (1965) (16W, Openg) – hit Taiwan as a Category 3-equivalent typhoon.
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Typhoon Harriet (1967) (34W) – a Category 3-equivalent typhoon that churned in the open ocean.
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Typhoon Harriet (1971)
The 1971 Pacific typhoon season has no official bounds; it ran year-round in 1971, 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 ...
(T7112, 12W, Neneng) – traversed the Philippines and made landfall near the demilitarized zone between North and South Vietnam as a Category 4-equivalent typhoon.
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Tropical Storm Harriet (1977)
The 1977 Pacific typhoon season was one of the least active Pacific typhoon seasons on record, with only 19 tropical storms forming. It was also the second of three known typhoon seasons during the satellite era (since 1960) to not produce a Cate ...
(16W, Saling) – stayed at sea.
In the South-West Indian:
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Tropical Storm Harriet (1964)
Tropical Storm Harriet was a tropical cyclone that hit Thailand and East Pakistan in October 1962. It formed in the South China Sea before making landfall in Southern Thailand and crossing the Malay Peninsula into the Bay of Bengal. It caused ex ...
made landfall on Madagascar.
In the Australian Region:
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Cyclone Harriet (1982)
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– remained over the open ocean.
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Cyclone Harriet-Heather (1992)
In meteorology, a cyclone () is a large air mass that rotates around a strong center of low atmospheric pressure, counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere as viewed from above (opposite to an anti ...
– passed just south of North Keeling Island, strengthened into a Category 5 on the Australian tropical cyclone intensity scale, then crossed into the South-West Indian Ocean.
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Cyclone Harriet (2003) – paralleled the coast of Western Australia but remained far offshore.
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