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List of storms named Wayne

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 8, 2023
Entity authorityQ7861341 ↗
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The name Wayne has been used for four tropical cyclones in the northwest Pacific Ocean.

Tropical Storm Wayne (1979) (T7922, 25W) – approached the Philippines before dissipating.

Typhoon Wayne (1983) (T8304, 04W, Karing) – approached the Philippines and Taiwan.

Typhoon Wayne (1986) (T8614, 12W, Miding) – one of the longest-lived storms on record, approached the Philippines and struck Taiwan.

Typhoon Wayne (1989) (T8922, 25W) – struck Japan.

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