The name Celeste 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, four in the East
Pacific Ocean
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and one in the
Australian region of the South Pacific.
In the East Pacific:
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Hurricane Celeste (1960) – developed from the remnants of Atlantic Basin Hurricane Abby; did not make landfall.
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Tropical Storm Celeste (1968) – did not make landfall.
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Hurricane Celeste (1972)
Hurricane Celeste was a strong List of Category 4 Pacific hurricanes, Category 4 major hurricane which became the first known tropical cyclone to strike Johnston Atoll as a hurricane. Tropical cyclogenesis, Forming from a disturbance in the Trop ...
– a long-lived Category 4 hurricane that made landfall on Johnston Atoll.
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Tropical Storm Celeste (1976) – remained in the open ocean.
In the Australian region:
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Cyclone Celeste (1996) – formed in the Coral Sea and rapidly intensified into a Category 3 severe tropical cyclone (Australian scale); approached Bowen, Queensland, before moving back out to sea.
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