Tropical Storm Alma

Tropical Storm Alma

Tropical Storm Alma of the 2008 Pacific hurricane season was the easternmost forming Pacific tropical cyclone on record and the first tropical storm on record to strike the Pacific coast of Nicaragua. In the spring of 2009, the WMO retired the name Alma and replaced it with Amanda for use in the...

of the 2008 Pacific hurricane season was the easternmost forming Pacific tropical cyclone on record and the first tropical storm on record to strike the Pacific coast of Nicaragua. In the spring of 2009, the WMO retired the name Alma and replaced it with Amanda for use in the 2014 Pacific hurricane season. This makes Alma the first tropical storm to be retired in the Eastern Pacific.

The name Alma was also used to name 11 tropical cyclones worldwide. 5 in the North Atlantic and Eastern Pacific, and 1 in the Western Pacific and may refer to:

Atlantic:

• Tropical Storm Alma (1958), made landfall in Central America
• Hurricane Alma (1962), struck North Carolina as a tropical storm before heading out to sea
• Hurricane Alma (1966)
  Hurricane Alma (1966)
  Hurricane Alma was a rare June major hurricane in the 1966 Atlantic hurricane season. It was the earliest continental U.S. hurricane strike within any season since 1908...
  
  , second-earliest storm to reach Category 3; killed 90, mostly in Honduras, and did $210 million damage (in 1966 dollars), mostly to Cuba
• Hurricane Alma (1970)
  Hurricane Alma (1970)
  Hurricane Alma was one of only four Atlantic tropical cyclones to reach hurricane status in May. It developed on May 17 north of Panama, and rapidly intensified on May 20 to peak winds of , near Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. It stalled south of Cuba and deteriorated due to wind shear, and by...
  
  , caused minor effects on its path, and one of only four May hurricanes in the Atlantic
• Tropical Storm Alma (1974)
  Tropical Storm Alma (1974)
  Tropical Storm Alma, the first named storm to develop in the 1974 Atlantic hurricane season, was a short lived tropical storm that made a rare Venezuelan landfall...
  
  , struck South America and caused 47 indirect deaths from a plane crash

Eastern Pacific:

• Tropical Storm Alma (1984), never affected land
• Hurricane Alma (1990), earliest Pacific hurricane on record, but never affected land
• Hurricane Alma (1996)
  Hurricane Alma (1996)
  Hurricane Alma was the first of three consecutively named storms to make landfall on the Pacific coast of Mexico during a ten-day span. Alma was the third tropical cyclone, first named storm and first hurricane of the 1996 Pacific hurricane season. It is believed that the storm originated out of an...
  
  , affected Mexico with heavy rainfall, causing at least three deaths
• Hurricane Alma (2002), early season major hurricane that never affected land

Western Pacific:

• Typhoon Alma (1946), approached Japan