Storms
Note: indicates the name was retired after that usage in the respective basin
Fabian
1981 – struck Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam. 1985 (January) – passed near the Yap Main Islands. 1985 (September) – threatened no land. 1988 – did not impact land. 1991 – struck the Isle of Youth and mainland Cuba. 1997 – remained over the open ocean. 2003 – Category 4 hurricane, caused $300 million damage and four deaths after passing directly over Bermuda. 2013 – brought minor damage in China and Vietnam. 2017 – struck Hong Kong and Shenzhen. 2021 – made landfalls in the Putuo District of Zhoushan and Pinghu, China.
Fabien (2023) – a powerful tropical cyclone is the strongest cyclone of this intensity in the satellite era, surpassing Cyclone Billy–Lila in 1986 by 6 days.
Fabienne (1972) – A powerful tropical cyclone passed west of Rodriguez, killing two people on the island and injuring 16 people.
Fabio
1982 – A Category 1 hurricane that stayed away from land. 1988 – A Category 4 hurricane that passed south of Hawaii but did not affect land. 1994 – A weak and short lived storm that did not affect land. 2000 – A weak storm that did not affect land. 2006 – A short lived storm that did not affect land while tropical, but its remnants affected Hawaii. 2012 – A Category 2 hurricane that did not affect land while tropical, but its remnants affected Baja California. 2018 – A Category 2 hurricane that became the earliest sixth named storm in the Eastern Pacific on record, never affected land.
Faith
1947 – a strong tropical storm minimal affected Taiwan and Japan. 1966 – A Category 3 hurricane that holds the record for the longest track of a hurricane ever. 1972 – a Category 1 tropical cyclone (Australian scale) impact Queensland. 1998 – struck both the Philippines and Vietnam during December 1998.
Falcon
2003 – a tropical depression that was only recognized by PAGASA. 2007 – struck South Korea. 2011 – approached Korea. 2015 – powerful and long-lived cyclone, passed between Okinawa and Miyako-jima. 2019 – a tropical storm that passed along the coasts of the Philippines, Taiwan and China and hit South Korea. 2023 – a category 4 typhoon which lingered the Okinawa Islands, and eventually struck Korea.
Fanele (2009) – the first cyclone of tropical cyclone status to strike western Madagascar since Cyclone Fame one year prior.
Fani (2019) – extremely tropical cyclone to strike the Indian state of Odisha since the 1999 Odisha cyclone.
Fanny
1963 – a strong tropical storm mostly stayed at sea. 1969 – a strong tropical cyclone. 1970 – a strong tropical cyclone that impacted Vanuatu and New Caledonia.
Fakir (2018) – a short-lived yet damaging tropical cyclone that affected Réunion and Mauritius in late April 2018.
Fanoos (2005) – was the fifth storm to affect southern India in six weeks.
Fantala (2016) – the most intense tropical cyclone recorded in the South-West Indian Ocean in terms of sustained winds.
Faraji (2020) – a Category 5 tropical cyclone mostly stayed at sea.
Fausto
1984 – a Category 2 hurricane that passed near Southern California. 1990 – a Category 1 hurricane mostly stayed at sea. 1996 – made landfall on southern Baja California 2002 – regenerated into a tropical storm well north of the Hawaiian islands 2008 – ran parallel to the Mexican Rivera 2014 – never threatened land 2020 – remnants brought severe storms in California, killing one.
Faxai
2001 – a Category 5 typhoon mostly stayed at sea. 2007 – a short-lived tropical storm that had minor effects on land. 2014 – had no effects on land. 2019 – A Category 4 typhoon that made landfall in the Kantō region of Japan.
Fay
1978 – affected Fiji. 2002 – a tropical storm that caused minor damage in Texas and northern Mexico. 2004 – a Category 5 storm that made landfall in Western Australia. 2008 – a near hurricane strength tropical storm that made landfall in Florida four times, the first known storm in history to do so. 2014 – a Category 1 hurricane that affected Bermuda. 2020 – a moderate tropical storm that affected New Jersey, earliest sixth named storm in the Atlantic basin.