Tropical Storm Grace

The name Grace has been used for four tropical cyclones in the Atlantic Ocean

It is used on the modern six-year lists, where it replaced Gloria:

  • 1991's Hurricane Grace - Weak Category 2 hurricane that passed 50 miles (80 km) south of Bermuda but caused no significant damage. It was, however, reborn into an unnamed hurricane (officially called Hurricane #8), nicknamed "The Perfect Storm".
  • 1997's Tropical Storm Grace - formed north of Hispaniola, threatened no land.
  • 2003's Tropical Storm Grace - made landfall on Galveston Island, Texas, causing heavy rainfall but no significant damage.
  • 2009's Tropical Storm Grace - Nearly hurricane force storm that formed northeast of the Azores, breaking Vince's record for the furthest northeast forming tropical storm in the basin.

The name was also used for ten tropical cyclones in the western Pacific:

  • 1945's Tropical Storm Grace - Nearly typhoon force tropical storm. Additional information unknown.
  • 1950's Typhoon Grace (T5008) - Moderately strong Category 1 typhoon that made landfall in South Korea as a tropical storm.
  • 1954's Typhoon Grace (T5405) - affected Japan.
  • 1958's Super Typhoon Grace (T5819) - Powerful Category 5 super-typhoon with 190 mph winds and a pressure of 905 mbar.
  • 1961's Tropical Storm Grace (30W) - Weak tropical storm. Japan Meteorological Agency analyzed it as a tropical depression, not as a tropical storm.
  • 1964's Tropical Storm Grace (T6410, 13W) - Moderately strong 60 mph tropical storm that executed a loop before restrengthening and eventually dissipating southeast of Japan.
  • 1966's Tropical Storm Grace (T6623, 25W) - Another nearly typhoon force storm.
  • 1969's Typhoon Grace (T6913, 16W) - Strong Category 2 typhoon that lasted for nearly a week.
  • 1972's Tropical Storm Grace (T7219, 19W, Osang) - Moderately strong tropical storm that took an erratic track east of Luzon.
  • 1975's Tropical Storm Grace (T7517, 20W) - Yet another nearly typhoon force storm that also took an erratic track east of Luzon, eventually dissipating about a week after formation in the Bering Sea.

The name was used for one tropical cyclone in the Southwest Indian Ocean.

  • 1963's Cyclone Grace - Information unknown.

The name was also used for two tropical cyclones in the Southwest Pacific Ocean.

  • 1984's Cyclone Grace - Cyclone that caused some damage in Australia.
  • 2004's Cyclone Grace - Category 2 (Australian scale) cyclone that briefly threatened New Caledonia, before causing $20 million in damage in Australia, and nearly 30 in. of rainfall.

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    Irving Berlin (1888–1989)

    Sin their conception, their birth weeping,
    Their life a general mist of error,
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    Just as the creative artist is not allowed to choose, neither is he permitted to turn his back on anything: a single refusal, and he is cast out of the state of grace and becomes sinful all the way through.
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