The name George has been used for three

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 in the Atlantic Ocean and for one in the Australian region of the South-East Indian Ocean. In the Atlantic: * 1947 Fort Lauderdale hurricane, designated "George" by the Weather Bureau office in Miami *

Hurricane George (1950) The 1950 Atlantic hurricane season was the first year in the Atlantic hurricane database (HURDAT) that storms were given names in the Atlantic basin. Names were taken from the Joint Army/Navy Phonetic Alphabet, with the first named storm being d ...

, developed southeast of Bermuda, intensified to Category 2 hurricane and became extratropical south of Newfoundland *

Tropical Storm George (1951) The 1951 Atlantic hurricane season was the first hurricane season in which tropical cyclones were officially named by the United States Weather Bureau. The season officially started on June 15, when the United States Weather Bureau began it ...

, struck Bay of Campeche and made landfall in Tampico, Mexico In the Australian region: * Cyclone George (2007), developed in the Joseph Bonaparte Gulf, intensified to a Category 5 severe tropical cyclone (Australian scale) and hit the Pilbara coast

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