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List of storms named Wally

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 14, 2025
Entity authorityQ124608084 ↗
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The name Wally has been used for one tropical cyclone in the Australian region and one in the South Pacific Ocean.

In the Australian region:

Cyclone Wally (1976) – a Category 3 severe tropical cyclone.

In the South Pacific Ocean:

Cyclone Wally (1980) – a Category 1 tropical cyclone that made landfall in Fiji and caused 18 fatalities.

See also

Similar names that have been used for tropical cyclones:

Tropical Storm Wali (2014) – used in the Northeast Pacific Ocean.

Tropical Storm Wallie (1965) – also used in the Northeast Pacific Ocean.

List of storms named Willy – also used in the Australian region.

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This entry incorporates text from “List of storms named Wally” 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.