Tropical Storm Kathleen

The name Kathleen has been used for four tropical cyclones in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, one in the Western Pacific and one in the Southwest Indian Ocean.

  • 1961's Tropical Storm Kathleen - not a threat to land.
  • 1968's Tropical Storm Kathleen - not a threat to land.
  • 1972's Tropical Storm Kathleen - came close to land.
  • Hurricane Kathleen (1976) - Category 1 hurricane, made landfall in Baja as a tropical storm, moved into California and Arizona

Kathleen was used on the old typhoon name list for the Western Pacific:

  • 1947's Typhoon Kathleen (T4709) - Affected Kantō, Japan

Kathleen was used for one in the Southwest Indian:

  • 1965's Cyclone Kathleen

Famous quotes containing the words tropical, storm and/or kathleen:

    Oh, you’ll love the sea. There’s something about it. The hot red dawn, the towering sails, the wake on a tropical night. Oh, you’ll love it all. It’s a glorious kind of world. I couldn’t live without it.
    —Charles Larkworthy. Denison Clift. Capt. Benjamin Briggs (Arthur Margetson)

    Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.
    Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)

    When you come to a place where you have to go left or right, go straight ahead.
    Sister Ruth, U.S. nun. As quoted in Dakota, ch. 30, by Kathleen Norris (1993)