The name Etau has been used for four
tropical cyclone
A tropical cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm system with a low-pressure area, a closed low-level atmospheric circulation, strong winds, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain and squalls. Depending on its locat ...
s, all
in the West Pacific Ocean. ''Etau'', a
Palauan word for ''storm cloud'', was contributed to the naming lists by the United States.
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Typhoon Etau (2003) (T0310, 11W, Kabayan) – a Category 3-equivalent typhoon that made
landfall
Landfall is the event of a storm moving over land after being over water. More broadly, and in relation to human travel, it refers to 'the first land that is reached or seen at the end of a journey across the sea or through the air, or the fact ...
in Japan.
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Tropical Storm Etau (2009)
Tropical Storm Etau was the deadliest tropical cyclone to impact Japan since Typhoon Tokage in 2004. Forming on August 8, 2009 from an area of low pressure, the system gradually intensified into a tropical storm. Tracking in a curved path ar ...
(T0909, 10W) – affected Japan.
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Tropical Storm Etau (2015) (T1518, 18W) – a severe tropical storm that made landfall in Japan.
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Tropical Storm Etau (2020)
The 2020 Pacific typhoon season was the first of a series of four below average Pacific typhoon seasons, and became the first with below-average tropical cyclone activity since 2014, with 23 named storms, 10 of which became typhoons and only 2 ...
(T2021, 24W, Tonyo) – affected the Philippines and Vietnam.
See also
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Hurricane Eta
Hurricane Eta was a deadly and erratic tropical cyclone that devastated parts of Central America in early November 2020. The record-tying twenty-eighth named storm, thirteenth hurricane, and sixth major hurricane of the extremely active 2020 A ...
(2020) – a similar name that has been used
in the Atlantic Ocean.
References
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Pacific typhoon set index articles