The name Helene or Helena has been used for nine
tropical cyclone
A tropical cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm system characterized by a low-pressure center, a closed low-level atmospheric circulation, strong winds, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain and squalls. Dep ...
s worldwide: seven in the Atlantic Ocean, one in the South-West Indian Ocean, and one in the Western Pacific Ocean.
In the Atlantic:
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Hurricane Helene (1958)
Hurricane Helene was the most intense tropical cyclone of the 1958 Atlantic hurricane season. The eighth tropical storm and fourth hurricane of the year, Helene was formed from a tropical wave east of the Lesser Antilles on September 21, 1958 ...
– a powerful storm that grazed Cape Hatteras causing $11 million in damage.
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Tropical Storm Helena
The 1963 Atlantic hurricane season featured one of the deadliest tropical cyclones on record in the Atlantic basin: Hurricane Flora. The season officially began on June 15, and lasted until November 15. These dates conventionally delim ...
(1963) – between Dominica and Guadeloupe and struck Antigua.
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Hurricane Helene (1988)
The 1988 Atlantic hurricane season was a near average season that proved costly and deadly, with 15 tropical cyclones directly affecting land. The season officially began on June 1, 1988, and lasted until November 30, 1988, althou ...
– a Category 4 hurricane that stayed in the open sea, never threatening land.
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Tropical Storm Helene (2000)
Tropical Storm Helene was a long-lived tropical cyclone that oscillated for ten days between a tropical wave and a tropical storm. It was the twelfth tropical cyclone and eighth tropical storm of the 2000 Atlantic hurricane season, forming on ...
– entered the Caribbean Sea, made landfall at Fort Walton Beach, Florida, exited at the North Carolina coast and regained tropical storm strength heading northeast.
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Hurricane Helene (2006)
Hurricane Helene was the ninth tropical cyclone, tropical storm, fourth hurricane, and strongest hurricane of the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season, tied with Hurricane Gordon (2006), Hurricane Gordon.
Helene was a long-lived Cape Verde hurricane ...
– a Category 3 hurricane that stayed in the open ocean, never threatening land.
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Tropical Storm Helene (2012) – a tropical storm that affected Trinidad and Tobago and Mexico.
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Hurricane Helene (2018)
The 2018 Atlantic hurricane season was the third in a consecutive series of above-average and damaging Atlantic hurricane seasons, featuring 15 named storms, 8 hurricanes, and 2 major hurricanes, which caused a total of over $50 billion (2 ...
– a Category 2 hurricane that formed between Cape Verde and West Africa.
In the South-West Indian:
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Cyclone Helene (1969)
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 an ...
In the Western Pacific:
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Tropical Storm Helene (1950) (T5009) – stalled near Japan and struck China.
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