The name Sandra 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, three in the Eastern

Pacific Ocean The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five Borders of the oceans, oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean, or, depending on the definition, to Antarctica in the south, and is ...

, one in the Australian Region and one in the South Pacific. In the Eastern Pacific: *

Hurricane Sandra (1985) The 1985 Pacific hurricane season is the third-most active Pacific hurricane season on record. It officially started on May 15, 1985, in the eastern Pacific, and on June 1, 1985, in the central Pacific, and lasted until November 30, 1985. These ...

, a high-end Category 3 hurricane that stayed in the open ocean *

Hurricane Sandra (2015) Hurricane Sandra was the latest-forming major hurricane in the northeastern Pacific basin, the strongest Pacific hurricane on record in November, and the record eleventh major hurricane of the 2015 Pacific hurricane season. Originating from a tr ...

, a strong late-season Category 4 hurricane that dissipated just offshore from Sinaloa * Tropical Storm Sandra (2021), a weak system that formed far out to sea In the Australian Region: * Cyclone Sandra (1966), formed southwest of Christmas Island In the South Pacific: * Cyclone Sandra (2013), formed off the Queensland coast, its remnants bought heavy rains to parts of New Zealand

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