The name Nancy has been used for a total of nineteen tropical cyclones worldwide: fourteen in the Western Pacific Ocean, one in the Southwest Indian Ocean and four in the Southwestern Pacific Ocean.
Western Pacific:
- 1945's Tropical Stormn Nancy
- 1950's Tropical Storm Nancy (Japan Meteorological Agency analyzed it as a tropical depression, not as a tropical storm.)
- 1954's Typhoon Nancy (T5416)
- 1958's Super Typhoon Nancy (T5828)
- 1961's Super Typhoon Nancy - (T6118, 52W) struck Japan. known as 2nd Muroto Typhoon.
- 1964's Tropical Storm Nancy (21W, Japan Meteorological Agency analyzed it as a tropical depression, not as a tropical storm.)
- 1966's Tropical Storm Nancy (T6633, 36W)
- 1970's Typhoon Nancy (T7001, 01W, Atang)
- 1972's Typhoon Nancy (T7225, 27W)
- 1976's Tropical Storm Nancy (T7604, 04W)
- 1979's Tropical Storm Nancy (T7915, 18W)
- 1982's Typhoon Nancy (T8222, 24W, Weling) - struck Philippines.
- 1986's Typhoon Nancy (T8605, 05W) - struck Taiwan.
- 1989's Typhoon Nancy (T8914, 17W)
Southwest Indian Ocean:
- 1965's Cyclone Nancy
Southwest Pacific Ocean:
- 1966's Cyclone Nancy
- 1977's Cyclone Nancy
- 1990's Cyclone Nancy - made landfall near Byron Bay.
- 2005's Cyclone Nancy - a Category 4 tropical cyclone whose damage warranted retirement of the name.
Famous quotes containing the words tropical, storm and/or nancy:
“We’re having a heat wave, a tropical heat wave.”
—Irving Berlin (1888–1989)
“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)
“Miss Nancy Ellicott smoked
And danced all the modern dances;
And her aunts were not quite sure how they felt about it,
But they knew that it was modern.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)