The name Elsie has been used for fourteen

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 in the Western Pacific Ocean, one in the Australian region, and one in the South-West Indian Ocean. In the Western Pacific: * Typhoon Elsie (1950) (T5032) – a Category 1-equivalent typhoon. * Typhoon Elsie (1954) (T5402) – a Category 3-equivalent typhoon that affected

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. * Typhoon Elsie (1958) (T5816) – a Category 1-equivalent typhoon. * Typhoon Elsie (1961) (T6110) – a Category 1-equivalent typhoon. * Typhoon Elsie (1964) (T6412, Lusing) – 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 ...

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, causing extensive flooding in

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. * Typhoon Elsie (1966) (T6619, Pitang) – a Category 4-equivalent typhoon that caused record-breaking rainfall in Taiwan. * Typhoon Elsie (1969) (T6921, Narsing) – a Category 5-equivalent super typhoon that affected Taiwan and China, killing 102 people. * Typhoon Elsie (1972) (T7220) – a Category 1-equivalent typhoon that caused flooding in Thailand. * Typhoon Elsie (1975) (T7514, Mameng) – a Category 4-equivalent typhoon that affected Hong Kong. * Typhoon Elsie (1981) (T8126, Tasing) – a Category 5-equivalent super typhoon that affected the

Caroline Islands The Caroline Islands (or the Carolines) are a widely scattered archipelago of tiny islands in the western Pacific Ocean, to the north of New Guinea. Politically, they are divided between the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) in the cen ...

and the

Mariana Islands The Mariana Islands ( ; ), also simply the Marianas, are a crescent-shaped archipelago comprising the summits of fifteen longitudinally oriented, mostly dormant volcanic mountains in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, between the 12th and 21st pa ...

. * Tropical Storm Elsie (1985) (T8502) – the first January tropical cyclone in the Western Pacific in six years. * Tropical Storm Elsie (1988) (T8814) – did not affect land. * Typhoon Elsie (1989) (Tasing) – a Category 5-equivalent super typhoon that made landfall in

, killing 47 people. * Typhoon Elsie (1992) (T9229, Reming) – a Category 5-equivalent super typhoon that affected the Caroline Islands and the Mariana Islands. In the South-West Indian Ocean: * Tropical Storm Elsie (1998) – a severe tropical storm. In the Australian region: * Cyclone Elsie (1987) – a Category 4 severe tropical cyclone that made landfall in

Western Australia Western Australia (WA) is the westernmost state of Australia. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east, and South Australia to the south-east. Western Aust ...

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