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List of storms named Mindy

list of storms with the same or similar names

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 11, 2024
Entity authorityQ108476526 ↗
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The name Mindy has been used for two tropical cyclones in the Atlantic Ocean.

Tropical Storm Mindy (2003), remained at sea, but caused minor damage in Puerto Rico.

Tropical Storm Mindy (2021), made landfall in Florida, weakening to a tropical depression shortly after; the precursor disturbance triggered deadly flooding in Mexico, killing 23 people.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2003, 2021—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, List, storms and named is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “List of storms named Mindy” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.