The name Kate has been used for two tropical cyclones in the Atlantic Ocean, eleven tropical cyclones in the western Pacific, and at least two in the Southern Hemisphere.
The name is used on the modern six-year lists in the Atlantic:
- Hurricane Kate (1985) - Category 3 hurricane. Grazed Cuba, directly struck Panama City, Florida
- Hurricane Kate (2003) - Category 3 hurricane. Brushed Newfoundland
The name was also used on some of the old typhoon name lists, which were also used for hurricanes in the central Pacific:
- 1945's Tropical Storm Kate
- 1951's Typhoon Kate (T5106) - affected Japan
- 1955's Super Typhoon Kate (T5521)
- 1959's Tropical Storm Kate (T5910, 20W)
- 1962's Typhoon Kate (T6206, 44W)
- 1964's Typhoon Kate (T6430, 45W) - struck Vietnam
- 1967's Typhoon Kate (T6719, 21W)
- Typhoon Kate (1970) killed 915 in the Philippines.
- 1973's Tropical Storm Kate (T7312, 13W)
- 1976's Hurricane Kate - briefly threatened Hawaii
- 1999's Typhoon Kate (T9901, 04W, Diding)
The name was also used in the Southwest Indian Ocean:
- 1962's Cyclone Kate
The name is on the current naming list in Brisbane's Area of Responsibility in the south Pacific:
- 2006's Cyclone Kate - not a threat to land.
Famous quotes containing the words tropical, storm and/or kate:
“Then the bowsprit got mixed with the rudder sometimes:
A thing, as the Bellman remarked,
That frequently happens in tropical climes
When a vessel is, so to speak, “snarked.””
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)
“And true, they are hurling spittle, rock,
Garbage and fruit in Little Rock.
And I saw coiling storm a-writhe
On bright madonnas. And a scythe
Of men harassing brownish girls.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“Monogamy and prostitution go together.”
—“J,” U.S. prostitute. As quoted in Woman in Sexist Society, ch. 3, by Kate Millett (1971)