List of named storms (L)

Storms are named for historical reasons to avoid confusion when communicating with the public, as more than one storm can exist at a time. Names are drawn in order from predetermined lists. For tropical cyclones, names are assigned when a system has one-, three-, or ten-minute winds of more than 65 km/h (40 mph). Standards, however, vary from basin to basin. For example, some tropical depressions are named in the Western Pacific, while within the Australian and Southern Pacific regions, the naming of tropical cyclones are delayed until they have gale-force winds occurring more than halfway around the storm center.

This list covers the letter L.

Storms

Note: † indicates the name was retired after that usage in the respective basin

Laila (2010) – a severe cyclonic storm that struck southeastern India, killing 65 people
Lala (1984) – a tropical storm southeast of Hawaii
Lam (2015)† – a tropical cyclone that struck Australia's Northern Territory
Lan (2017) – a typhoon that struck Japan, causing $2 billion in damage and killing 17 people
Lance (1984) – a tropical cyclone off the east coast of Australia
Lana

1948 - a Category 1 typhoon in the western Pacific that did not affect land.
2009 - a strong tropical storm that passed south of Hawaii

Lane

1978 - a tropical storm over the open eastern Pacific Ocean
1982 - a tropical storm southwest of Mexico
1988 - a Category 2 hurricane that formed south of Mexico and moved westward
1994 - a Category 4 hurricane that moved across much of the eastern Pacific
2000 - a Category 2 hurricane that later brought rainfall to California
2006 - a strong Category 3 hurricane that made landfall in the Mexican state of Sinaloa
2012 - a Category 1 hurricane southwest of Mexico
2018 - a powerful Category 5 hurricane that weakened as it approached Hawaii

Larry

2003 - tropical storm that hit the Mexican state of Tabasco
2006† - powerful cyclone that struck northeastern Australia, leaving $1.1 billion in damage

Laura

1947 - typhoon in the western Pacific
1967 - tropical cyclone in the southwest Pacific Ocean
1971 – a system that formed off Panama, looped south of western Cuba and landed in southern Belize.
2008 – a large but short-lived system that remained in the open ocean.
2020 – a Category 4 hurricane that struck Louisiana, the strongest to hit the state since 1856; earliest twelfth named storm on record in the Atlantic

Laurence † – a powerful cyclone that struck Western Australia three times

1990 - a weak tropical cyclone to the north of Western Australia
2009

Laure (1980) – a powerful tropical cyclone that passed near Mauritius
Laurie

1969 - a hurricane that looped in the Gulf of Mexico and struck Mexico twice
1976 - a short-lived tropical cyclone in the South Pacific

Leah (1973) – a tropical cyclone off northwestern Australia
Lee

1981 - typhoon in the western Pacific, a category 2 storm that caused 188 fatalities in the Philippines
1985 - a tropical storm in the western Pacific that struck North Korea
1988 - a tropical storm in the western Pacific
2005 - a short-lived, minimal tropical storm in the Atlantic
2007 - cyclone in the Australian basin that crossed into the south-west Indian Ocean, where it was renamed Ariel
2011 - a strong tropical storm that made landfall in Louisiana, and its remnants caused catastrophic flooding in the Northeast US
2017 - a category 3 hurricane that spent its initial stages as a weak tropical storm

Leepi

2013 - a tropical storm that brushed the Philippines and struck Japan
2018 - a tropical storm that struck southwestern Japan

Lehar (2013) – a very severe cyclonic storm that originated in the South China Sea and moved across the Bay of Bengal, later striking India
Lekima

2001 – a typhoon that struck Taiwan and China
2007 - a tropical storm that brought heavy rains to Luzon and struck Vietnam
2013 – the second strongest 2013 storm worldwide
2019 † – brought heavy rains and flooding to Luzon due to its enhancement of the southwest monsoon, later intensifying into the season's second super typhoon, and made landfall in China

Lena

1971 - a tropical cyclone off northeastern Australia
1983 - a tropical cyclone that struck Port Hedland, Western Australia
1993 - a tropical cyclone between Western Australia and Indonesia

Lenny (1999) † – a Category 4 Atlantic hurricane that crossed the Caribbean from west to east, later crossing the northern Lesser Antilles.
Leo

1977 - a tropical cyclone that struck Port Hedland, Western Australia
Leo (1999) - a typhoon that struck southern China
2000 - a tropical cyclone that formed near French Polynesia

Leon (2000) – a tropical cyclone off Western Australia that was renamed Eline in the south-west Indian Ocean
Leonie (1969) – a short-lived tropical cyclone off southwest Western Australia
Les (1998) – a tropical cyclone that struck the Northern Territory and Western Australia
Leslie

1979 - cyclone in the Southwest Pacific Ocean
2000 - weak tropical storm that impacted Bermuda, Florida, Cuba, and Newfoundland.
2012 - long-lived Category 1 hurricane that caused minor damage in Bermuda and Newfoundland.
2018 - a long-lived tropical cyclone that constantly fluctuated between tropical storm and Category 1 hurricane intensity, made landfall in the Iberian Peninsula as an extratropical cyclone.

Lester

1980 - a tropical storm off the southern coast of Mexico
1986 - a short-lived tropical storm over the open Eastern Pacific
1992 - a minimal hurricane that struck the Baja California peninsula and Sonora, later entering Arizona as a tropical storm
1998 - a major hurricane that paralleled the Mexican coastlin, causing two deaths
2004 - a tropical storm that dissipated just offshore Acapulco, Mexico
2016 - a Category 4 hurricane that brushed Hawaii

Levi (1997) – a tropical storm that formed near the Philippines, killing 53 people
Lewis

1990 - a tropical storm that dissipated east of the Philippines
1993 - a tropical storm that struck the Philippines and Vietnam

Lex

1980 - a typhoon that passed east of Japan
1983 - a tropical storm that struck Vietnam, killing 200 people
1986 - a tropical storm that passed through the Marianas Islands

Lezissy (1989) – a tropical storm in the south-west Indian Ocean
Li (1994) – a minimal hurricane that crossed much of the northern Pacific Ocean
Libby (1948) – a typhoon that passed south of Japan
Lidia

1981 - a deadly tropical storm that struck Sinaloa, killing 73 people and causing $80 million in damage
1987 - a minimal hurricane southwest of Mexico
1993 - a Category 4 hurricane that later struck Sinaloa, Mexico, killing 7 people
2005 – a short-lived tropical storm southwest of Mexico
2017 – a tropical storm that made landfall in Baja California Sur, killing 20 people

Lidy (1995) – a tropical depression in the south-west Indian Ocean that dropped heavy rainfall on Rodrigues
Lindsay

1985 - a tropical cyclone that struck Broome, Western Australia
1996 - a tropical cyclone southwest of Indonesia

Linfa

2003 – struck Japan
2009 – made landfall in Fujian
2019 – caused severe flooding throughout most of the Philippines

Lingling

2001 - a typhoon that struck the Philippines and Vietnam, killing 379 people
2007 - a tropical storm that formed in the North Pacific in mid-October 2007.
2014 - a tropical storm that brought landslides in southern Philippines early in the year.
2019 - a powerful Category 4 storm that passed through the Ryukyu Islands and Korea, and the strongest storm on record to strike North Korea

Lila (1986) – a tropical cyclone that was formerly named Billy in the Australian basin, was renamed Lila in the south-west Indian Ocean, and was again renamed Billy after it re-entered the Australian basin, where it later struck southwestern Australia
Lili

1984 - a rare December hurricane, made landfall in Haiti on Christmas Eve after degenerating into a group of thunderstorms.
1989 - cyclone in the South Pacific that impacted New Caledonia
1990 - threatened the eastern United States for a short time but turned north, losing its tropical characteristics before reaching Nova Scotia.
1996 - caused extensive damage in Central America, Cuba and the Bahamas; killed eight in Central America while it was forming, and retained tropical storm winds as it crossed the British Isles, killing two in the United Kingdom.
2002† - impacted Windward Islands, Jamaica and Haiti. After crossing the western end of Cuba, it reached Category 4 strength but weakened substantially in the 12 hours before striking Louisiana. Killed a dozen on the islands and caused $850 million in damage to the United States.
2019 - off-season tropical cyclone in the Australian region that affected Indonesia and East Timor.

Lily

1966 - a tropical depression that passed north of Madagascar
1967 - a minimal hurricane off the west coast of Mexico
1971 - a Category 1 hurricane that struck Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, killing 12 people
1977 - a short-lived tropical storm northeast of Australia

Lillian

1963 - a tropical storm that struck western Mexico
1973 - a minimal hurricane southwest of Mexico

Lilly (1946) – a typhoon that brushed Japan and struck South Korea
Lin

1993 - a tropical cyclone in the South Pacific
2009 - a tropical cyclone that passed near Tonga

Linda

1976 - made landfall south of Darwin, Australia.
1985 – crossed into the Central Pacific as a tropical depression.
1991 – recurved out to sea.
September 1997 – second most intense hurricane in the Pacific basin with a minimum pressure of 902 mbar. Also the second strongest hurricane in the Pacific in terms of 1-min winds.
November 1997 - made landfall in Vietnam and Thailand as a tropical storm.
2003 – never affected land.
2004 - a tropical cyclone southwest of Indonesia
2009 – caused no damage or deaths.
2015 – affected Baja California.
2018 - a tropical cyclone off northeastern Australia

Lionrock

2010 - a tropical storm that struck China
2016 - a typhoon that looped south of Japan and struck eastern Japan, and also caused widespread flooding in North Korea; the storm killed 550 people

Lisa

1966 - tropical cyclone in the Southwest Pacific Ocean
1981 - cyclone in the Southwest Indian Ocean
1982 - tropical cyclone in the Southwest Pacific Ocean
1991 - tropical cyclone in the Southwest Pacific Ocean
1996 - tropical storm in the western Pacific that made landfall in Southern China.
1998 – travelled north in the central Atlantic without approaching land.
2004 – formed off Cape Verde, a named cyclone in the central Atlantic for a record 11 days before reaching hurricane strength. Never affected land.
2010 – travelled in eastern Atlantic near Cape Verde.
2016 – formed in eastern Atlantic in close proximity to Cape Verde, churned in the open ocean without threatening land.

Lise

1949 - a typhoon that passed east of Japan
1971 - formerly Cyclone Yvonne in the Australian basin, it was renamed Lise in the south-west Indian Ocean and remained away from land

Lisette (1997) – a tropical cyclone that struck Mozambique, killing 87 people
Litanne (1994) – a powerful tropical cyclone that struck eastern Madagascar
Liua (2018) – a tropical cyclone near the Solomon Islands, also was the earliest in a South Pacific cyclone season for a storm to be named
Liza

1961 – a tropical storm that paralleled the southwest Mexican coast
1968 – a minimal hurricane southwest of Mexico
1972 – a short-lived tropical storm south of Mexico
1976 – a category 4 hurricane that killed 1,263 people in northwestern Mexico.

Loke (2015) – a minimal hurricane west of Hawaii
Lois

1952 - a typhoon that struck Hainan and Vietnam
1966 - a hurricane in the Atlantic that passed west of the Azores
1992 - a tropical storm that passed east of Japan
1995 - a severe tropical storm that struck Vietnam

Lola

1953 - a typhoon that brushed eastern Japan
1957 - a powerful typhoon that struck Guam
1960 - a typhoon that struck the Philippines and later Vietnam, killing 58 people
1963 - a typhoon that passed southeast of Japan
1966 - a tropical storm that hit China
1968 - a typhoon that passed north of the Marianas Islands
1972 - a typhoon that formed near Micronesia and moved northward
1975 - an early typhoon that struck the Philippines, killing 30 people
1978 - a typhoon that struck China
1979 - a typhoon that passed southeast of Japan
1982 - a tropical storm over the open western Pacific
1986 - a powerful typhoon that struck Pohnpei and later moved northward
1989 - a continuation of Tropical Storm Ken, which eventually struck northeastern China
1990 - a tropical storm that hit Vietnam, killing 16 people
1993 - a typhoon that struck the Philippines and Vietnam, killing 308 people
2005 - a tropical cyclone near Tonga
2008 - a tropical storm in the south-west Indian Ocean

Longwang

2000 - a short-lived tropical storm northeast of the Philippines
2005 † - a powerful typhoon that struck Taiwan and China, killing 149 people

Lottie

1968 - a short-lived tropical depression in the south-west Indian Ocean
1974 - a tropical cyclone that capsized the ship Uluilakeba, killing 85 people

Lorena

1983 - a Category 3 hurricane that killed seven people in Mexico while paralleling the coast
1989 - a minimal hurricane southwest of Mexico
2001 - a tropical storm that dissipated near the southwest Mexican coast
2013 - a tropical storm that struck the Baja California peninsula
2019 - a Category 1 hurricane that made landfall in Baja California.

Lorenzo

2001 - a short-lived tropical storm near the Azores
2007 - struck Mexico as a Category 1 storm.
2013 - did not threaten land.
2019 - the easternmost Category 5 hurricane on record in the Atlantic Ocean

Loris (1971) – struck the north of Western Australia
Lorna

1954 - a typhoon that brushed Japan, killing 34 people
1958 - a typhoon that brushed the eastern Philippines before turning away from the country
1961 - a typhoon that hit Taiwan and southeastern China
1964 - a short-lived tropical storm west of the Marianas Islands
1966 - a typhoon that struck the northern Philippines
1969 - a tropical storm that dissipated east of the Philippines
1976 - a tropical storm that dissipated east of the Philippines
2019 - a tropical cyclone that straddled the boundary between the south-west Indian Ocean and the Australian basin

Lorraine

1966 - a tropical storm that struck the Mexican state of Colima
1970 - a Category 2 hurricane that moved across the eastern Pacific
1974 - a tropical storm that moved in a Z-shaped track

Louise

1945 - a typhoon that struck Japan, killing 36 people
1951 - a powerful typhoon that struck the northern Philippines and later southern China, killing six people
1955 - a powerful typhoon that struck southwestern Japan, killing 54 people
1959 - a typhoon that struck Taiwan and China
1962 - a typhoon that struck Japan, killing 15 people
1964 - a powerful typhoon that struck the Philippines, killing 595 people
1967 - a tropical storm that struck Japan
March 1970 - a tropical cyclone in the south-west Indian Ocean that passed near Mauritius
October 1970 - a typhoon that struck the Philippines and Vietnam
1973 - a typhoon that struck the Chinese island of Hainan
1976 - a powerful typhoon that recurved northeast of the Philippines

Love

1947 - a hurricane that passed close to Bermuda
1950 - a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico that struck Florida as a tropical storm

Lowell

1984 - a minimal hurricane southwest of Mexico
1990 - a minimal hurricane off the southwest coast of Mexico
2002 - a tropical storm over the open eastern and central Pacific
2008 - a tropical storm that made landfall in Baja California and produced major flooding in the Midwest United States
2014 - a minimal hurricane southwest of Mexico

Lua (2012) † – a destructive tropical cyclone in Western Australia
Luban (2018) – a very severe cyclonic storm that struck eastern Yemen in the midst of a civil war and cholera outbreak; the storm killed 14 people and left $1 billion in damage
Lucie

1965 - a possible tropical cyclone that affected Vanuatu
1978 - short-lived tropical depression northeast of Madagascar

Lucretia (1950) – a tropical storm east of Philippines that was later renamed Nancy
Lucille

1956 - a typhoon that was also named Karen, struck the Philippines
1960 † - a tropical storm that killed at least 108 people in the Philippines

Lucy

March 1962 - a short-lived tropical storm in the south-west Indian Ocean
November 1962 - a typhoon that struck Vietnam, killing five people
1965 - a powerful typhoon that later struck Japan after it weakened
1968 - a typhoon east of the Philippines
1971 - a typhoon that brushed the Philippines and later struck China
1974 - a tropical storm that struck southern China
1977 - a typhoon east of the Philippines

Luis (1995) † – a Category 4 hurricane that moved through the northern Lesser Antilles, leaving 19 deaths and $3.3 billion in damage
Luke

1991 - a tropical storm that brushed Japan, killing 12 people
1994 - a tropical storm that hit the Philippines and Vietnam

Lulu (1970) – a tropical cyclone that hit northern Western Australia
Luma (2003) – a powerful subtropical depression that passed south of Madagascar
Lusi

1986 - a weak tropical cyclone near Vanuatu
1997 - a tropical cyclone that brushed Fiji
2014 - a tropical cyclone that affected Fiji and New Zealand

Lupit

2003 – powerful Category 5 super typhoon that affected the Federated States of Micronesia
2009 – another powerful Category 5 super typhoon that formed northwest of Kwajalein, and recurved off Luzon, becoming extratropical northeast of Japan
2016 – a tropical storm that formed east of Japan

Lydie (1973) – a very intense tropical cyclone that passed just west of Réunion, killing 10 people
Lynn

1981 - a tropical storm that struck the Philippines and China
1984 - a tropical storm that struck Vietnam
1987 - a typhoon that passed between the Philippines and Taiwan, killing 49 people

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