Tropical Storm Olga

The name Olga has been used for two tropical cyclones in the Atlantic Basin and ten tropical cyclones in the Pacific Ocean.

Olga is used on the six-year lists in the Atlantic, where it replaced Opal:

• 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.

Olga has been used for ten tropical cyclones 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.

Olga has been used for at least three tropical cyclones in the Southern Hemisphere:

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