The name Frances has been used for nine
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: eight in the
Atlantic Ocean
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and one in the
Australian region.
In the Atlantic Ocean:
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Hurricane Frances (1961): Caused flooding in Puerto Rico, peaked at Category 4 west of Bermuda, subtropical at Nova Scotia
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Tropical Storm Frances (1968): Travelled across the central Atlantic Ocean without affecting land
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Hurricane Frances (1976): Curved over the central Atlantic, affected the Azores as an extratropical storm
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Hurricane Frances (1980): Travelled up the central Atlantic Ocean without affecting land
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Hurricane Frances (1986)
Hurricane Frances was the second most intense tropical cyclone in the Atlantic during 2004 and proved to be very destructive in Florida. It was the sixth named storm, the fourth hurricane, and the third major hurricane of the 2004 Atlantic hu ...
: Briefly drifted over the western Atlantic but never affected land
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Hurricane Frances (1992): Threatened Bermuda but did not strike the island, then hit Spain as an extratropical storm
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Tropical Storm Frances (1998)
Tropical Storm Frances caused extensive flooding in Mexico and Texas in September 1998. The sixth tropical cyclone and sixth named storm of the annual hurricane season, Frances developed from a low pressure area in the Gulf of Mexico on Sept ...
: A weak storm that caused flooding in East Texas and southern Louisiana
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Hurricane Frances
Hurricane Frances was the second most intense tropical cyclone in the Atlantic during 2004 and proved to be very destructive in Florida. It was the sixth named storm, the fourth hurricane, and the third major hurricane of the 2004 Atlantic h ...
(2004): A powerful Category 4 hurricane that struck the Bahamas, and later, as a Category 2 storm, moved extremely slowly over Florida, causing billions in damage
After the 2004 season, the name ''Frances'' was retired and replaced by ''
Fiona
Fiona is a feminine given name of Gaelic origins. It means white or fair, while the Irish name ''Fíona'' means 'of wine', being the genitive of 'wine'. It was coined by Scottish writer James Macpherson. Initially, the name was confined to ...
'', which was first used during the
2010 season.
In the Australian region:
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Cyclone Frances (2017)
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 ...
: A relatively strong tropical cyclone which remained off the coasts of Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and northern Australia.
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