The name Rick has been used for six
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.
In the Eastern Pacific:
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Hurricane Rick (1985)
Hurricane Rick was a powerful hurricane that threatened Hawaii during September 1985, but ultimately passed with minimal effects. The storm was the twentieth tropical cyclone, eighteenth named storm, eighth hurricane, and fifth major hurricane of ...
, strong Category 4 hurricane, never a threat to land
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Hurricane Rick (1997)
Hurricane Rick was the second-latest hurricane ever to make landfall in Mexico. The eighteenth named storm, ninth and final hurricane of the 1997 Pacific hurricane season, Rick was a short-lived Category 2 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hur ...
, weak Category 2 hurricane, made landfall near Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca
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Hurricane Rick (2009)
Hurricane Rick was the third-most intense Pacific hurricane on record and the second-most intense tropical cyclone worldwide in 2009, only behind Typhoon Nida. Developing off the southern coast of Mexico on October 15, Rick traversed an area ...
, powerful Category 5 hurricane, the third-most intense Pacific hurricane on record, made landfall near Mazatlán, Sinaloa, as a tropical storm
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Tropical Storm Rick (2015)
The 2015 Pacific hurricane season is the second-most active Pacific hurricane season on record, with 26 named storms, only behind the 1992 season. A record-tying 16 of those storms became hurricanes, and a record 11 storms further intensifi ...
, weak tropical storm, never threatened land
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Hurricane Rick (2021)
Hurricane Rick was the fifth named storm and fourth hurricane to make landfall along the Pacific coast of Mexico in 2021. The seventeenth named system and the eighth hurricane of the 2021 Pacific hurricane season, Rick formed as a low pressure s ...
, strong Category 2 hurricane, made landfall near Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán
In the Western Pacific:
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Tropical Storm Rick (1996)
The 1996 Pacific typhoon season has no official bounds; it ran year-round in 1996, but most tropical cyclones tend to form in the northwestern Pacific Ocean between May and November. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when ...
(T9618, 22W), minimal storm that stayed away from land
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