The name Ophelia 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. Depend ...
s worldwide for four in the Atlantic and Western Pacific, and three in the Southwest Pacific.
In the Atlantic Ocean:
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Hurricane Ophelia (2005)
Hurricane Ophelia was a long-lived tropical cyclone in September 2005 that moved along an erratic path off the East Coast of the United States for much of its existence. The fifteenth named storm and the eighth hurricane of the record-breaking 20 ...
– a slow-moving Category 1 hurricane that battered the coast of North Carolina
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Hurricane Ophelia (2011)
Hurricane Ophelia was the most intense hurricane of the 2011 Atlantic hurricane season. The seventeenth tropical cyclone, sixteenth tropical storm, fifth hurricane, and third major hurricane, Ophelia originated in a tropical wave in the central A ...
– a powerful Category 4 hurricane that affected Bermuda and Newfoundland as a post-tropical storm
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Hurricane Ophelia (2017) – a Category 3 hurricane that affected the Azores; after transitioning to an extratropical cyclone, it struck Ireland, Great Britain and Norway
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Tropical Storm Ophelia (2023)
Tropical Storm Ophelia was a strong but short-lived tropical storm that impacted the East Coast of the United States in September 2023. The sixteenth named storm of the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season, Ophelia originated from a disturbance off th ...
– a strong tropical storm that formed off the coast of North Carolina and caused flooding along the east coast of the United States
In the Western Pacific Ocean:
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Tropical Storm Ophelia (1948) (T4805)
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Typhoon Ophelia (1953)
The 1953 Pacific typhoon season has no official bounds; it ran year-round in 1953, 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 wh ...
, (T5308) – a Category 3 storm
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Typhoon Ophelia (1958)
The 1958 Pacific typhoon season was an event in the annual cycle of tropical cyclone formation. The season had no official bounds, but tropical cyclones in the Western Pacific Ocean normally develop between May and October. The season was below av ...
(T5801) – a Category 5 storm
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Typhoon Ophelia
Typhoon Ophelia was a long-lived and powerful tropical cyclone that had devastating impacts on the small atoll of Ulithi in the Caroline Islands. Forming as a tropical depression on November 21, 1960 near Enewetak Atoll, the incipient cyclo ...
(1960) (T6027, 53W) – a long-lived Category 4 storm that devastated the atoll of
Ulithi
Ulithi ( yap, Wulthiy, , or ) is an atoll in the Caroline Islands of the western Pacific Ocean, about east of Yap.
Overview
Ulithi consists of 40 islets totaling , surrounding a lagoon about long and up to wide—at one of the largest i ...
Following its usage in 1960, the name "Ophelia" was retired in the Western Pacific due to its long track, roughly , and prolonged time as an intense typhoon.
In the Southwest Pacific Ocean:
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Cyclone Ophelia (1986) The name Ophelia has been used for eleven tropical cyclones worldwide for four in the Atlantic and Western Pacific, and three in the Southwest Pacific.
In the Atlantic Ocean:
* Hurricane Ophelia (2005) – a slow-moving Category 1 hurricane that b ...
– a weak and brief Category 1 tropical cyclone (Australian Scale) near Cocos Island
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Cyclone Ophelia (1996) The name Ophelia has been used for eleven tropical cyclones worldwide for four in the Atlantic and Western Pacific, and three in the Southwest Pacific.
In the Atlantic Ocean:
* Hurricane Ophelia (2005) – a slow-moving Category 1 hurricane that b ...
– a Category 2 tropical cyclone (Australian Scale) that took an erratic track between Indonesia and Australia, never a threat to land
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Cyclone Ophelia (2008) The name Ophelia has been used for eleven tropical cyclones worldwide for four in the Atlantic and Western Pacific, and three in the Southwest Pacific.
In the Atlantic Ocean:
* Hurricane Ophelia (2005) – a slow-moving Category 1 hurricane that b ...
– a Category 2 tropical cyclone (Australian Scale) where the origins came from the Northern Territory and moved parallel to the Western Australian coast
The name Ofelia has also been used for two tropical cyclone in the Western Pacific Ocean.
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Typhoon Ofelia (1990)
Typhoon Ofelia, known as Typhoon Bising in the Philippines, was the first of two typhoons in 1990 to directly affect the Philippines within a week. Typhoon Ofelia originated from an area of disturbed weather embedded in the monsoon trough situat ...
– the first of two typhoons in
1990
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to directly affect the Philippines within a week.
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Tropical Storm Ofelia (1993)
Tropical Storm Ofelia, known in the Philippines as Tropical Storm Luming, was an early-season tropical cyclone that passed south Japan during July 1993. An area of disturbed weather developed from the Western Pacific monsoon trough in late July 1 ...
– an early-season tropical cyclone that passed south Japan.
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