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:
“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)
“I am less affected by their heroism who stood up for half an hour in the front line at Buena Vista, than by the steady and cheerful valor of the men who inhabit the snow-plow for their winter quarters; who have not merely the three-o’-clock-in-the-morning courage, which Bonaparte thought was the rarest, but whose courage does not go to rest so early, who go to sleep only when the storm sleeps or the sinews of their iron steed are frozen.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“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)