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Storms

Note: indicates the name was retired after that usage in the respective basin

Labuyo

2001 – made landfall on Taiwan. 2007 – a typhoon that hit Vietnam and China the most powerful storm to affect Hainan in over 30 years, killing more than 113 people. 2009 – remained out in the open ocean. 2013 – powerful typhoon that made landfall on Luzon, in the Philippines, and later in Guangdong, China.

Laila (2010) – a severe cyclonic storm that struck southeastern India, killing 65 people.

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Lala (1984) – a tropical storm southeast of Hawaii.

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Lam (2015) – a tropical cyclone that struck Australia's Northern Territory.

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Lan

2017 – a typhoon that struck Japan, causing $2 billion in damage and killing 17 people. 2023 – a powerful category 4 typhoon that struck Japan.

Lance (1984) – a tropical cyclone off the east coast of Australia.

Lana

1948 – a Category 1 typhoon in the western Pacific that did not affect land. 2009 – a strong tropical storm that passed south of Hawaii .

Lane

1978 – a tropical storm over the open eastern Pacific Ocean. 1982 – a tropical storm southwest of Mexico. 1988 – a Category 2 hurricane that formed south of Mexico and moved westward. 1994 – a Category 4 hurricane that moved across much of the eastern Pacific. 2000 – a Category 2 hurricane that later brought rainfall to California. 2006 – a strong Category 3 hurricane that made landfall in the Mexican state of Sinaloa. 2012 – a Category 1 hurricane southwest of Mexico. 2018 – a powerful Category 5 hurricane that weakened as it approached Hawaii.

Lannie

2017 – an intense and destructive tropical cyclone that affected parts of East Asia, especially Japan, during September 2017. 2021 – a tropical storm which caused minor damage to the Philippines, Vietnam, and Hainan Island.

Larry

2003 – tropical storm that hit the Mexican state of Tabasco. 2006 – powerful cyclone that struck northeastern Australia, leaving $1.1 billion in damage. 2021 – a large and long-lived hurricane that made landfall in Newfoundland.

Laura

1947 – typhoon in the western Pacific. 1967 – tropical cyclone in the southwest Pacific Ocean. 1971 – a system that formed off Panama, looped south of western Cuba and landed in southern Belize. 2008 – a large but short-lived system that remained in the open ocean. 2020 – developed in the Caribbean Sea before growing into a powerful Category 4 hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico before making landfall in Louisiana.

Laurence

1990 – a weak tropical cyclone to the north of Western Australia. 2009 – a powerful cyclone that struck Western Australia three times.

Laure (1980) – a powerful tropical cyclone that passed near Mauritius

Laurie

1969 – a hurricane that looped in the Gulf of Mexico and struck Mexico twice. 1976 – a short-lived tropical cyclone in the South Pacific.

Lawin

2004 – moved through the Ryūkyū islands before passing between South Korea and Japan. 2008 – remained far offshore north of Luzon. 2012 – the most intense tropical cyclone of the 2012 Pacific typhoon season in terms of ten-minute maximum sustained winds, tied with Typhoon Sanba. 2016 – a powerful category 5 super typhoon that made landfall in Peñablanca, Cagayan of the Philippines and in Haifeng County, Shanwei in the Guangdong province of China.

Leah (1973) – a tropical cyclone off northwestern Australia.

Lee

1981 – typhoon in the western Pacific, a category 2 storm that caused 188 fatalities in the Philippines. 1985 – a tropical storm in the western Pacific that struck North Korea. 1988 – a tropical storm in the western Pacific. 2005 – a short-lived, minimal tropical storm in the Atlantic. 2007 – cyclone in the Australian basin that crossed into the south-west Indian Ocean, where it was renamed Ariel. 2011 – a strong tropical storm that made landfall in Louisiana, and its remnants caused catastrophic flooding in the Northeast US. 2017 – a category 3 Atlantic hurricane that spent its initial stages as a weak tropical storm. 2023 - a category 5 hurricane that remained in the open ocean, made landfall in Nova Scotia as an extratropical cyclone.