The name Charley or Charlie has been used for eight

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 and one

subtropical cyclone A subtropical cyclone is a weather system that has some characteristics of both tropical cyclone, tropical and extratropical cyclones. As early as the 1950s, meteorologists were uncertain whether they should be characterized as Tropical cyclone ...

in the Atlantic Ocean, and for one tropical cyclone in the Australian region of the South Pacific Ocean. In the Atlantic: *

Hurricane Charlie (1950) The 1950 Atlantic hurricane season was the first year in the Atlantic hurricane database (HURDAT) that storms were given names in the Atlantic basin. Names were taken from the Joint Army/Navy Phonetic Alphabet, with the first named storm being de ...

, Category 2 hurricane that did not affect land *

Hurricane Charlie (1951) Hurricane Charlie was the deadliest Atlantic hurricane of the 1951 Atlantic hurricane season, the most powerful tropical cyclone to strike the island of Jamaica until Hurricane Gilbert in 1988, and at the time the worst natural disaster to aff ...

, Category 4 hurricane that struck Jamaica, the Yucatán Peninsula, and northeastern Mexico. *

Hurricane Charlie (1952) The 1952 Atlantic hurricane season was the last Atlantic hurricane season in which tropical cyclones were named using the Joint Army/Navy Phonetic Alphabet. It was a near normal Atlantic hurricane season, although it was the least active since 1 ...

, struck the Dominican Republic as a tropical storm before strengthening to a Category 3 hurricane and moving out to sea *

Subtropical Storm Charlie (1972) The subtropical zones or subtropics are geographical and climate zones immediately to the north and south of the tropics. Geographically part of the temperate zones of both hemispheres, they cover the middle latitudes from to approximately 35 ...

, remained over the open ocean *

Hurricane Charley (1980) The 1980 Atlantic hurricane season featured nine hurricanes, the most since 1969. This hurricane season was fairly active, with sixteen tropical cyclones forming, eleven of which strengthened into named tropical storms. The season officially ...

, Category 1 hurricane that looped across the open ocean *

Hurricane Charley (1986) Hurricane Charley was the second hurricane to threaten the East Coast of the United States within a year's timeframe, after Hurricane Gloria of 1985. The third tropical storm and second hurricane of the season, Charley formed as a subtropical lo ...

, Category 1 hurricane that made landfall along the North Carolina coast, then moved out over the ocean, going on to hit Ireland and Great Britain as a strong extratropical storm *

Hurricane Charley (1992) The 1992 Atlantic hurricane season was a significantly below average season for overall tropical or subtropical cyclones as only ten formed. Six of them became named tropical storms, and four of those became hurricanes; one hurricane became a ...

, Category 2 hurricane, affected the Azores *

Tropical Storm Charley (1998) Tropical Storm Charley was the third named storm of the 1998 Atlantic hurricane season. Charley was the first of two tropical storms to make landfall in Texas during that season (Frances being the other). The storm originated with a tropical wave ...

, made landfall near Port Aransas, Texas, causing significant flood damage to inland areas and killing 13 people *

Hurricane Charley Hurricane Charley was the first of four separate hurricanes to impact or strike Florida during 2004, along with Frances, Ivan and Jeanne, as well as one of the strongest hurricanes ever to strike the United States. It was the third named sto ...

(2004), Category 4 storm that struck Cuba and Florida, causing 10 deaths and $16.9 billion in damage, mostly in Southwest Florida The name ''Charley'' was retired after the 2004 hurricane season. It was replaced by ''Colin'' in the 2010 season. In the Australian region: *

Cyclone Charlie (1988) In meteorology, a cyclone () is a large air mass that rotates around a strong center of low atmospheric pressure, counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere as viewed from above (opposite to an anti ...

, struck Ayr, Queensland, killing one person and leaving $2,300,000 (1988 USD) in damage

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