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List of storms named Waldo

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 8, 2023
Entity authorityQ11823030 ↗
Source-derived summary

The name Waldo has been used for one tropical cyclone in the Eastern Pacific Ocean and for one in the Western Pacific Ocean.

In the Eastern Pacific:

Hurricane Waldo (1985) – a Category 2 hurricane that made landfall in Sinaloa, Mexico.

In the Western Pacific:

Tropical Storm Waldo (1998) (T9808, 13W) – struck Japan.

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