The name Sandra has been used for four

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, three in the Eastern

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

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 d ...

, 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 ...

, a strong late-season Category 4 hurricane that dissipated just off the coast of Sinaloa. * Tropical Storm Sandra (2021), a weak tropical storm that formed far out into sea. In the Southwest Pacific: * Cyclone Sandra (2013), moved into the South Pacific basin as a Severe Tropical Cyclone; its remnants bought heavy rains to parts of New Zealand.

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