The name Tomas has been used for five

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 worldwide: one in the Atlantic Ocean, two in the

Philippines The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an Archipelagic state, archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. Located in the western Pacific Ocean, it consists of List of islands of the Philippines, 7,641 islands, with a tot ...

PAGASA The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (, abbreviated as PAGASA , which means "hope" as in the Tagalog language, Tagalog word ''pag-asa'') is the National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHS ...

in the Western Pacific Ocean, and two in the South Pacific Ocean. In the Atlantic: *

Hurricane Tomas Hurricane Tomas was a moderately powerful late-season tropical cyclone which became the latest Atlantic hurricane on record in the calendar year to strike the Windward Islands. The nineteenth named storm and twelfth hurricane of the 2010 Atlan ...

(2010) – Category 2 hurricane, affected each Caribbean island group The name ''Tomas'' was retired in the Atlantic basin after the 2010 season, and was replaced with ''Tobias'' for the 2016 season. In the Western Pacific: * Tropical Storm Trami (2006) (T0623, 26W, Tomas) – a weak tropical cyclone that didn't affect land * Typhoon Man-yi (2018) (T1828, 34W, Tomas) – Category 2 typhoon, remained over the open ocean In the South Pacific: * Cyclone Tomas (1994) – Category 3 tropical cyclone, remained over the open ocean *

Cyclone Tomas Severe Tropical Cyclone Tomas was the most intense tropical cyclone to strike Fiji Fiji, officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies about north-northeast of N ...

(2010) – Category 4 tropical cyclone, caused extensive damage in Fiji The name ''Tomas'' was retired in the South Pacific basin after the 2009–10 season and replaced with ''Troy''.

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