The name Gordon has been used for four tropical cyclones in the Atlantic Ocean since 1988 when it replaced the name Gilbert on the list of hurricane names.
- 1994's Hurricane Gordon - killed 1,122 in Haiti, and 23 in other nations. Damage in the United States was $400 million, and damage in Haiti and Cuba was severe. Despite the damage caused, however, the name was not retired.
- 2000's Hurricane Gordon - formed near Guatemala, cut across the Yucatán and later hit Florida as a tropical storm. Killed 23 in Guatemala and one in Florida, and $10.8 million damage there (no figure for Guatemala).
- 2006's Hurricane Gordon - Formed in the central North Atlantic, tracked north and east while becoming a Category 3 major hurricane. Crossed the Azores as a category 1 storm before dissipating over western Europe.
- 2012's Hurricane Gordon - North Atlantic hurricane that passed over the eastern Azores as a Category 1 hurricane.
The name Gordon was also used for four tropical cyclones in the western Pacific Ocean.
- 1979's Tropical Storm Gordon (T7910, 07W, Herming) - Strong tropical storm which made landfall in China.
- 1982's Typhoon Gordon (T8216, 16W) - Category 3 typhoon with no known effects on land.
- 1985's Tropical Storm Gordon (T8527, 24W) - Weak tropical storm which made landfall in Vietnam.
- 1989's Super Typhoon Gordon (T8908, 08W, Goring) - Powerful Category 5 super typhoon which crossed extreme northern Luzon at peak intensity before making landfall southwest of Hong Kong as a strong tropical storm. 306 people were killed by Gordon, and 120,000 were left homeless in the Philippines.
Famous quotes containing the words tropical, storm and/or gordon:
“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)
“When the storm rattles my windowpane
I’ll stay hunched at my desk, it will roar in vain
For I’ll have plunged deep inside the thrill
Of conjuring spring with the force of my will,
Coaxing the sun from my heart, and building here
Out of my fiery thoughts, a tepid atmosphere.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“This is the patent age of new inventions
For killing bodies, and for saving souls,
All propagated with the best intentions.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)