The name Ken has been used for four tropical cyclones in the western north Pacific Ocean and two in the Southern Hemisphere.
The name was on several of the old typhoon name lists:
- 1979's Tropical Storm Ken (T7912, 15W) - struck Japan.
- 1982's Typhoon Ken (T8219, 20W, Tering) - struck Japan.
- 1986's Typhoon Ken (T8602, 02W)
- 1989's Tropical Storm Ken-Lola (T8912, 13W) - badly organized system that was mistakenly renamed to Lola.
The name was used on some old naming lists in the Southern Hemisphere:
- 1983's Cyclone Ken
- 1992's Cyclone Ken
- 2009's Cyclone Ken
Famous quotes containing the words tropical, storm and/or ken:
“Physical force has no value, where there is nothing else. Snow in snow-banks, fire in volcanoes and solfataras is cheap. The luxury of ice is in tropical countries, and midsummer days. The luxury of fire is, to have a little on our hearth; and of electricity, not the volleys of the charged cloud, but the manageable stream on the battery-wires. So of spirit, or energy; the rests or remains of it in the civil and moral man, are worth all the cannibals in the Pacific.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Hail, Columbia! happy land!
Hail, ye heroes! heaven-born band!
Who fought and bled in Freedom’s cause,
Who fought and bled in Freedom’s cause,
And when the storm of war was gone,
Enjoyed the peace your valor won.
Let independence be our boast,
Ever mindful what it cost;”
—Joseph Hopkinson (1770–1842)
“Is America a land of God where saints abide for ever? Where golden fields spread fair and broad, where flows the crystal river? Certainly not flush with saints, and a good thing, too, for the saints sent buzzing into man’s ken now are but poor- mouthed ecclesiastical film stars and cliché-shouting publicity agents.
Their little knowledge bringing them nearer to their ignorance,
Ignorance bringing them nearer to death,
But nearness to death no nearer to God.”
—Sean O’Casey (1884–1964)