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The name Olga has been used for sixteen
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: three in the Atlantic Ocean (where it replaced the name ''
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''), ten in the Western Pacific Ocean, and three in the Australian region in Southern Hemisphere. In the Atlantic: * Hurricane Olga (2001) – large Category 1 hurricane that had no effect on land. *
Tropical Storm Olga (2007) Tropical Storm Olga was an off-season tropical cyclone that impacted the Greater Antilles. The fifteenth named storm of the 2007 Atlantic hurricane season, Olga developed from a low developed east of the northernmost Lesser Antilles. It slowly a ...
– off-season storm that killed 40 people, mostly in the Dominican Republic. *
Tropical Storm Olga (2019) Tropical Storm Olga was a short-lived tropical cyclone that caused unexpected severe damage as a non-tropical system along its track across the Central United States in late October 2019. The storm began as a distinct tropical wave that mo ...
– formed in the Gulf of Mexico and became post-tropical shortly thereafter. In the Western Pacific: * Tropical Storm Olga (1948) (T4827) * Typhoon Olga (1954) (T5417) * Typhoon Olga (1958) (T5830) * Typhoon Olga (1961) (T6119, 51W) * Tropical Storm Olga (1964) (22W) – formed and remained in the Gulf of Tonkin. * Tropical Storm Olga (1966) (T6634, 37W) * Typhoon Olga (1970) (T7002, 02W, Deling) – affected Japan. * Typhoon Olga (1972) (T7226, 28W) – struck the Marshall Islands and the Northern Marianas, causing minimal damage. * Typhoon Olga (1976) (T7605, 05W, Didang) – affected the Philippines and Japan. * Typhoon Olga (1999) (T9907, 11W, Ising) – killed 106 people in North and South Korea and caused US$657 million in damages. In the Australian region: * Tropical Cyclone Olga (1981) * Tropical Cyclone Olga (2000) – paralleled the Kimberley and Pilbara coasts * Tropical Cyclone Olga (2010) – crossed the lower Cape York Peninsula and then meandered in the southern Gulf of Carpentaria. {{DEFAULTSORT:Olga Atlantic hurricane set index articles Pacific typhoon set index articles Australian region cyclone set index articles