The name Opal has been used for twelve
tropical cyclone
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s worldwideone in the
Atlantic Ocean
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(after which it was replaced by the name ''
Olga
Olga may refer to:
People and fictional characters
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* Michael Algar (born 1962), English singer also known as "Olga"
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Russia
* Olga, Russia ...
'') and eleven in the Western
Pacific Ocean
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.
In the Atlantic:
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Hurricane Opal
Hurricane Opal was a large and powerful tropical cyclone that caused severe and extensive damage along the northern Gulf Coast of the United States in October 1995. The fifteenth named storm, ninth hurricane and strongest tropical cyclone of th ...
(1995), a Category 4 hurricane that caused severe and extensive damage along the northern Gulf Coast of the United States
In the Western Pacific:
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Typhoon Opal (1945), struck Japan
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Typhoon Opal (1946), struck the Philippines
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Typhoon Opal (1955) (T5526), struck Japan
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Tropical Storm Opal (1959) (27W)
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Typhoon Opal (1962) (T6210, 48W), struck Taiwan, China, Korea and Japan (
ja)
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Typhoon Opal (Naning) (1964) (T6434, 51W), struck the Philippines
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Typhoon Opal (1967) (T6722, 25W)
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Tropical Storm Opal (1970) (T7024, 26W)
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Typhoon Opal (1973) (T7316, 18W)
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Tropical Storm Opal (1976)
The 1976 Pacific typhoon season has no official bounds; it ran year-round in 1976, but most tropical cyclones tend to form in the northwestern Pacific Ocean between June and December. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year whe ...
(T7625, 26W)
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Typhoon Opal (Kuring) (1997) (T9707, 08W), struck Japan
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