Tropical Storm Olga

The name Olga has been used for sixteen tropical cyclones worldwide – three in the Atlantic Ocean (where it replaced the name Opal), ten in the Western Pacific Ocean, and three in the Southern Hemisphere.

In the Atlantic:

• Hurricane Olga (2001) – late-season storm that had no effect on land.
• Tropical Storm Olga (2007) – rare December storm that killed 40 people, mostly in the Dominican Republic.
• Tropical Storm Olga (2019) – a short lived tropical storm that formed in the Gulf of Mexico and became post-tropical shortly after.

In the Western Pacific:

• Tropical Storm Olga (1948) (T4827)
• Typhoon Olga (1954) (T5417)
• Typhoon Olga (1958) (T5830)
• Typhoon Olga (1961) (T6119, 51W)
• Tropical Storm Olga (1964) (22W, Japan Meteorological Agency analyzed it as a tropical depression, not as a tropical storm.)
• Tropical Storm Olga (1966) (T6634, 37W)
• Typhoon Olga (1970) (T7002, 02W) – affected Japan.
• Typhoon Olga (1972) (T7226, 28W) – caused minimal damage in the Marshall Islands and the Northern Marianas Islands.
• Typhoon Olga (1976) (T7605, 05W, Didang) – affected the Philippines and Japan.
• Typhoon Olga (1999) (T9907, 11W, Ising) – killed 64 in North and South Korea.

The 1999 Pacific Typhoon Season was the last typhoon season to have only English names.

In the Southern Hemisphere:

• Tropical Cyclone Olga (1981)
• Tropical Cyclone Olga (2000)
• Tropical Cyclone Olga (2010) – affected the Solomon Islands as a Tropical Depression