The name Alpha or Alfa has been used for three
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 ...
s and one
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 ...
in the Atlantic Ocean:
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Subtropical Storm Alpha (1972)
Subtropical Storm Alpha (also called Alfa) was an List of off-season Atlantic hurricanes, off-season subtropical cyclone that impacted Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia in May 1972. It developed from a previously non-tropical cyclone in the western ...
, pre-season storm that made landfall in Georgia
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Subtropical Storm Alfa (1973), briefly threatened Cape Cod but stayed out to sea
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Tropical Storm Alpha (2005)
Tropical Storm Alpha was the 23rd tropical storm of the extremely active 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. It developed from Tropical Depression Twenty-Five in the eastern Caribbean Sea on October 22, 2005. As the 21 pre-designated storm nam ...
, moderately strong tropical storm that made landfall in the Dominican Republic before being absorbed by Hurricane Wilma
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Subtropical Storm Alpha (2020)
Subtropical Storm Alpha was the first subtropical cyclone ever observed to make landfall in mainland Portugal. The twenty-second tropical or subtropical cyclone and twenty-first tropical cyclone naming, named storm of the extremely active and r ...
, short-lived subtropical storm that made landfall in Portugal
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