The name Linda 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.
In the Eastern Pacific:
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Tropical Storm Linda (1985)
The 1985 Pacific hurricane season is the third-most active Pacific hurricane season on record. It officially started on May 15, 1985, in the eastern Pacific, and on June 1, 1985, in the central Pacific, and lasted until November 30, 1985. These d ...
– Minimal tropical storm that crossed into the Central Pacific as a tropical depression.
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Hurricane Linda (1991)
The 1991 Pacific hurricane season was a near-average Pacific hurricane season. The worst storm this year was Tropical Storm Ignacio, which killed 23 people in Mexico and injured 40 others. Elsewhere, Hurricane Fefa caused flooding in Hawaii. Hu ...
– Category 3 hurricane which recurved out to sea.
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Hurricane Linda (1997)
Hurricane Linda was a very powerful Category 5 hurricane that was also the second-most intense eastern Pacific hurricane on record, but surpassed 18 years later by Patricia. Forming from a tropical wave on September 9, 1997, Linda steadily i ...
– Category 5 hurricane that became the second-most intense hurricane in the Eastern Pacific basin with a minimum pressure of 902 mbar. Also the second strongest hurricane in the Pacific in terms of 1-min sustained winds.
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Hurricane Linda (2003)
The 2003 Pacific hurricane season was the first season to feature no major hurricanes – storms of Category 3 intensity or higher on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale (SSHWS) – since 1977. The dates conventionally delimiting the ...
– Category 1 hurricane that never affected land.
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Hurricane Linda (2009)
The 2009 Pacific hurricane season was the most active Pacific hurricane season since 1994. The season officially started on May 15 in the East Pacific Ocean, and on June 1 in the Central Pacific; they both ended on November 30. These dates convent ...
– Category 1 hurricane that caused no damages or deaths.
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Hurricane Linda (2015)
Hurricane Linda was a strong tropical cyclone in September 2015 that resulted in heavy rains across portions of Mexico and the Southwestern United States. The seventeenth named storm, eleventh hurricane, and eighth major hurricane of the se ...
– Category 3 hurricane which affected Baja California, bringing heavy rainfall and deadly
flash flooding
A flash flood is a rapid flooding of low-lying areas: washes, rivers, dry lakes and depressions. It may be caused by heavy rain associated with a severe thunderstorm, hurricane, or tropical storm, or by meltwater from ice or snow flowing ov ...
to
Utah
Utah ( , ) is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. Utah is a landlocked U.S. state bordered to its east by Colorado, to its northeast by Wyoming, to its north by Idaho, to its south by Arizona, and to it ...
.
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Hurricane Linda (2021)
The 2021 Pacific hurricane season was a moderately active Pacific hurricane season, with above-average tropical activity in terms of named storms; but featured below-average activity in terms of major hurricanes and a near-normal accumulated cyc ...
– Long-lived Category 4 hurricane that stayed out at sea.
In the Australian region:
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Tropical Cyclone Linda (1976)
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the Southern Hemisphere at S. The tropics are also referred ...
, made landfall south of Darwin, Australia.
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Tropical Cyclone Linda (2004)
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the Southern Hemisphere at S. The tropics are also referred to ...
, persisted out to sea.
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Tropical Cyclone Linda (2018)
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the Southern Hemisphere at S. The tropics are also referred to ...
, never affected land.
In the Western Pacific:
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Tropical Storm Linda (1997)
Severe Tropical Storm Linda, also known as Typhoon Linda, Cyclonic Storm Linda (BOB 08), or in the Philippines as Tropical Depression Openg, was the worst typhoon in southern Vietnam in at least 100 years, killing thousands of people and leaving ...
– Catastrophic system which killed over 3123 people in various parts of Southeast Asia. Considered the worst storm in southern Vietnam is over a century. Also called ''Openg'' in the Philippines, and BOB 08 in the North Indian Ocean.
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