Tropical Storm Grace
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The name Grace has been used for four tropical cyclone
Tropical cyclone
A tropical cyclone is a storm system characterized by a large low-pressure center and numerous thunderstorms that produce strong winds and heavy rain. Tropical cyclones strengthen when water evaporated from the ocean is released as the saturated air rises, resulting in condensation of water vapor...

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Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's oceanic divisions. With a total area of about , it covers approximately 20% of the Earth's surface and about 26% of its water surface area...



It is used on the modern six-year lists, where it replaced Gloria
Hurricane Gloria
Hurricane Gloria was a powerful Cape Verde-type hurricane that formed during the 1985 Atlantic hurricane season and prowled the Atlantic Ocean from September 16 to September 28. Gloria reached Category 4 status on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale near the Bahamas, but weakened significantly...

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  • 1991's Hurricane Grace
    Hurricane Grace (1991)
    Hurricane Grace was a short-lived Category 2 hurricane that contributed to the formation of the powerful 1991 Perfect Storm. Forming on October 26, Grace initially had subtropical origins, meaning it was partially tropical and partially extratropical in nature. It became a tropical cyclone on...

     - Weak Category 2 hurricane that passed 50 miles (80 km) south of Bermuda but caused no significant damage. It was, however, reborn into an unnamed hurricane (officially called Hurricane #8), nicknamed "The Perfect Storm".
  • 1997's Tropical Storm Grace
    1997 Atlantic hurricane season
    The 1997 Atlantic hurricane season is the most recent Atlantic hurricane season to feature no tropical cyclones in August. The season officially began on June 1, 1997, and lasted until November 30, 1997...

     - formed north of Hispaniola, threatened no land.
  • 2003's Tropical Storm Grace
    Tropical Storm Grace (2003)
    Tropical Storm Grace was a weak tropical storm that struck Texas in the 2003 Atlantic hurricane season. The eleventh tropical depression and the seventh tropical storm of the season, Grace was also the weakest storm of the season. On August 30 the storm developed from a long-track tropical wave in...

     - made landfall on Galveston Island, Texas, causing heavy rainfall but no significant damage.
  • 2009's Tropical Storm Grace
    Tropical Storm Grace (2009)
    Tropical Storm Grace holds the record for being the farthest northeast forming tropical cyclone in the Atlantic basin. The seventh named storm of the slightly below average 2009 Atlantic hurricane season, Grace formed from an extratropical cyclone over the Azores on October 4...

     - Nearly hurricane force storm that formed northeast of the Azores, breaking Vince's record for the furthest northeast forming tropical storm in the basin.


The name was also used for ten tropical cyclones in the western Pacific:
  • 1945's Tropical Storm Grace - Nearly typhoon force tropical storm. Additional information unknown.
  • 1950's Typhoon Grace (T5008) - Moderately strong Category 1 typhoon that made landfall in South Korea as a tropical storm.
  • 1954's Typhoon Grace (T5405) - affected Japan.
  • 1958's Super Typhoon Grace (T5819) - Powerful Category 5 super-typhoon with 190 mph winds and a pressure of 905 mbar.
  • 1961's Tropical Storm Grace (30W) - Weak tropical storm. Japan Meteorological Agency analyzed it as a tropical depression, not as a tropical storm.
  • 1964's Tropical Storm Grace (T6410, 13W) - Moderately strong 60 mph tropical storm that executed a loop before restrengthening and eventually dissipating southeast of Japan.
  • 1966's Tropical Storm Grace (T6623, 25W) - Another nearly typhoon force storm.
  • 1969's Typhoon Grace (T6913, 16W) - Strong Category 2 typhoon that lasted for nearly a week.
  • 1972's Tropical Storm Grace (T7219, 19W, Osang) - Moderately strong tropical storm that took an erratic track east of Luzon.
  • 1975's Tropical Storm Grace (T7517, 20W) - Yet another nearly typhoon force storm that also took an erratic track east of Luzon, eventually dissipating about a week after formation in the Bering Sea
    Bering Sea
    The Bering Sea is a marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean. It comprises a deep water basin, which then rises through a narrow slope into the shallower water above the continental shelves....

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The name was used for one tropical cyclone in the Southwest Indian Ocean.
  • 1963's Cyclone Grace
    Pre-1970 Southern Hemisphere tropical cyclone seasons
    The Pre-1970 Southern Hemisphere tropical cyclone seasons ran year-round from July 1 to June 30, reaching their peaks mid-February to early March.Pre-1970 1970–75 1975–80 1980–1985-Unnnamed tropical cyclone :The Banda Islands were hit in March...

     - Information unknown.


The name was also used for two tropical cyclones in the Southwest Pacific Ocean.
  • 1984's Cyclone Grace - Cyclone that caused some damage in Australia.
  • 2004's Cyclone Grace - Category 2 (Australian scale) cyclone that briefly threatened New Caledonia, before causing $20 million in damage in Australia, and nearly 30 in. of rainfall.
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