The name Alma has been used to name eleven
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: five in the North Atlantic Ocean, five in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, and one in the Western Pacific Ocean.
In the Atlantic:
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Tropical Storm Alma (1958), made landfall in northeastern Mexico
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Hurricane Alma (1962), struck North Carolina as a tropical storm before heading out to sea
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Hurricane Alma (1966)
Hurricane Alma was a rare June major hurricane in the 1966 Atlantic hurricane season. It was the earliest North Atlantic tropical cyclone, Atlantic hurricane in the calendar year in 1951 Atlantic hurricane season, fifteen years, as well as the ear ...
, a Category 3 hurricane that traversed Cuba and then made landfall near Apalachee Bay, Florida; killed 90, mostly in Honduras, and did $210 million damage (in 1966 dollars), mostly to Cuba
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Hurricane Alma (1970), made landfall as a depression near Cedar Key, Florida
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Tropical Storm Alma (1974)
Tropical Storm Alma, the first tropical cyclone naming, named storm to develop in the 1974 Atlantic hurricane season, was a short lived tropical cyclone that made a rare Venezuelan Landfall (meteorology), landfall. The storm formed from the Inter ...
, made landfall in Venezuela, caused 47 indirect deaths from a plane crash on Isla Margarita
In the Eastern Pacific:
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Tropical Storm Alma (1984), never affected land
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Hurricane Alma (1990), earliest Pacific hurricane on record, but never affected land
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Hurricane Alma (1996), affected Mexico with heavy rainfall, causing at least three deaths
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Hurricane Alma (2002), early season major hurricane that never affected land
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Tropical Storm Alma (2008), made landfall on the Pacific coast of Nicaragua
The WMO retired the name ''Alma'' after the 2008 hurricane season and replaced it with ''
Amanda
Amanda is a Latin feminine gerundive (i.e. verbal adjective) name meaning, literally, "she who must (or is fit to) be loved". Other translations, with similar meaning, could be "deserving to be loved," "worthy of love," or "loved very much by ev ...
'' beginning in 2014.
In the Western Pacific:
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Typhoon Alma (1946)
The 1946 Pacific typhoon season has no official bounds; it ran year-round in 1946, but most tropical cyclones tend to form in the northwestern Pacific Ocean between June and December. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year wh ...
, approached Japan
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