List of named storms (K)

Note: indicates the name was retired after that usage in the respective basin

• Kai-tak

• 2000 – brushed the coasts of mainland China and Taiwan.
• 2005 – late-season storm that made landfall in Vietnam.
• 2012 – made landfall in the Philippines and China.
• 2017 – affected the Philippines.

• Kajiki

• 2001 – a weak tropical storm in late 2001.
• 2007 – struck Iwo Jima.
• 2014 – a storm which headed towards Philippines, killing 6 people.
• 2019 – an erratic storm which affected Vietnam, and caused many floodings in the Philippines.

• Kalmaegi

• 2002 –
• 2008 – struck Taiwan and China.
• 2014 – a storm which brought flooding in southeast Asia during mid-September.
• 2019 – impacted northern Philippines during mid-November.

• Kammuri

• 2002 –
• 2008 – struck China and Vietnam.
• 2014 –
• 2019 – made landfall in the Bicol Region of the Philippines at peak intensity as a category 4-equivalent typhoon.

• Kara

• 1969 – Category 2 hurricane, brought storm surge and flooding to coastal North Carolina while moving offshore.
• 2007 – Category 3 severe tropical cyclone, formed off the Kimberley coast.

• Karding

• 2014 –
• 2018 –

• Karen

• 1948 – remained over open waters.
• 1952 – struck South Korea and Japan.
• 1956 – crossed northern Philippines.
• 1960 – left 56 dead and 7,000 homeless in the Philippines.
• 1962 – destroyed 95% of the buildings on Guam.
• 1964 –
• 1977 –
• 1989 – formed near Isla de la Juventud.
• 1995 – minimal storm that was absorbed by Hurricane Iris.
• 2001 – made landfall at Nova Scotia as a tropical storm.
• 2004 – struck China.
• 2007 – Category 1 hurricane in the tropical Atlantic.
• 2008 – struck the Philippines and Hong Kong.
• 2012 – Category 5 super typhoon that made landfall in South Korea.
• 2013 – formed in the Gulf of Mexico.
• 2016 – destructive Category 4 typhoon that struck the Philippines, South China, and Vietnam.
• 2019 – briefly affected Puerto Rico before moving out to sea.

• Karina

• 2008 –
• 2014 –
• 2020 –

• Karl

• 1980 – moved across the central Atlantic; caused no significant effects on land.
• 1998 – travelled from north of Bermuda to near the Azores; caused no significant effects on land.
• 2004 – formed in the mid-Atlantic and turned north, reaching Category 4 strength in open water before hitting the Faroe Islands as an extratropical storm; caused no significant damage on land.
• 2010 – formed in the Caribbean Sea on a path that took it over the Yucatán Peninsula and into the Gulf of Mexico, where it rapidly strengthened to Category 3 before making landfall near Veracruz, Mexico.
• 2016 – long-lived but disorganized tropical storm, travelled from near Cape Verde to east of Bermuda; caused no significant effects on land.

• Katherine

• 1963 –
• 1973 –

• Kathleen

• 1947 – Affected Kantō, Japan.
• 1961 – not a threat to land.

• 1965 –

• 1968 – not a threat to land.
• 1972 – came close to land.
• 1976 – Category 1 hurricane, made landfall in Baja as a tropical storm, moved into California and Arizona

• Katia

• 1970
• 2011 – was a fairly intense Cape Verde hurricane that had substantial impact across Europe as a post-tropical cyclone.
• 2017 – was the most intense hurricane in the Bay of Campeche since Karl in 2010.

• Katie

• 1955 – struck Hispaniola.

• Kate

• 1945 – struck Japan.
• 1951 – affected Japan.
• 1955 –
• 1959 –
• 1962 (March) – South-West Indian Ocean cyclone that struck eastern Madagascar.
• 1962 (July) –
• 1964 – struck Vietnam.
• 1967 –
• 1970 – killed 915 people in the Philippines.
• 1973 –
• 1976 – briefly threatened Hawaii.
• 1985 – Category 3 hurricane, grazed Cuba, directly struck Panama City, Florida.
• 1999 –
• 2003 – Category 3 hurricane, brushed Newfoundland.
• 2006 – short-lived Category 2 cyclone in the northwestern Coral Sea, not a threat to land.
• 2014 – severe Category 4 cyclone that moved from the South-East Indian Ocean basin into the South-West Indian Ocean basin, not a threat to land.
• 2015 – Category 1 hurricane, brushed the Bahamas.
• 2021 – weak and disorganized tropical storm which stayed at sea.

• Katrina

• 1967 – struck Baja California and caused flooding in the southwest U.S. as a tropical storm.
• 1971 – affected Baja California and hit Mexico as a tropical storm.
• 1975 – did not affect land.
• 1981 – late-season Category 1 hurricane that impacted portions of the Greater Antilles and Bahamas.
• 1998 – severe and erratic tropical cyclone that affected the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, and Northern Australia. Its remnants eventually regenerated into Cyclone Victor–Cindy.
• 1999 – Disorganized and weak tropical storm that caused minor damage in Central America and Mexico.
• 2005 – A powerful Category 5 major hurricane that devastated the U.S. Gulf Coast, making landfall first near Miami, Florida, as a Category 1 hurricane, near Buras, Louisiana and Long Beach, Mississippi, at Category 3 intensity, causing over US$125 billion in damage and over 1,800 deaths.

• Katring

• 1983 – which struck the Philippines and China.
• 1987 – which struck South Korea as a Category 1 typhoon.
• 1994 – which struck the Philippines and Vietnam.
• 2006 –
• 2010 – approached Japan

• Kay

• 1980 –
• 1986 –
• 1987 –
• 1992 –
• 1998 –
• 2004 –
• 2016 –

• Keith

• 1988 – affected Central America and Florida, causing $7.3 million in damages.
• 1997 – a super typhoon which affected Guam and the Northern [[Mariana islan, causing $15 million in damages.
• 2000 – a Category 4 hurricane that caused extensive damage in Central America, particularly in Belize and Mexico.

• Ken

• 1979 – struck Japan.
• 1982 – struck Japan
• 1983 –
• 1986 –
• 1989 – badly organized system that was mistakenly renamed to Lola.
• 1992 –
• 2009 –

• Kendra

• 1966 – an eastern Atlantic October storm that was operationally declared a tropical storm but later determined to have not even been a tropical cyclone and was removed from the official records.
• 1978 – not a threat to land.

• Kenna

• 1984 – remained well out at sea.
• 1990 – a Category 1 hurricane that did not affect land.
• 2002 – a Category 5 hurricane that made landfall near San Blas, Mexico.

• Kenneth

• 1993 – Category 4 hurricane that did not affect land.
• 2005 – Category 4 hurricane whose remnants brought heavy rainfall to Hawaii.
• 2011 – Category 4 hurricane that did not affect land.
• 2017 – Category 4 hurricane that did not affect land.
• 2019 – Category 4 equivalent tropical cyclone that made landfall in Mozambique.

• Kent

• 1992 – struck Japan.
• 1995 – made landfall on China near Hong Kong.

• Ketsana

• 2003 – remained over the open ocean.
• 2009 – struck the Philippines and causing massive flooding in Metro Manila and other provinces nearby.

• Kevin

• 1979 –
• 1985 –
• 1991 –
• 1997 –
• 2003 –
• 2009 –
• 2015 –
• 2021 –

• Kiko

• 1983 – paralleled the Mexican coastline.
• 1989 – struck Baja California causing minor damage.
• 2001 (September) – struck Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan and China.
• 2001 (September) – stayed in the open ocean.
• 2005 – struck China
• 2007 – killed 15 people in Mexico without ever making landfall.
• 2009 – a 2009 storm that struck Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan and China
• 2013 (August) – never threatened land.
• 2013 (August) –
• 2017 –
• 2019 – long-lived tropical cyclone that stayed in the open ocean.
• 2021 - a powerful Category 5 super typhoon.

• Kim

• 1965 –
• 1968 –
• 1972 – struck Vietnam.
• 1974 –
• 1975 –
• 1977 – struck the Philippines.
• 1980 – struck the Philippines and China.
• 1983 – struck Vietnam and Thailand.
• 1986 –
• 2000 –

• Kirk
• 1996 – struck southwestern Japan.
• 2012 – never threatened land.
• 2018 – a low latitude storm; affecting Lesser Antilles.
• Kirogi

• 2000 – passed close to Japan while weakening.
• 2005 – not a threat to land.
• 2012 –
• 2017 –

• Kristen

• 1966 –
• 1970 –
• 1974 –

• Kit

• 1963 – a category 4 supertyphoon.
• 1974 –
• 1978 – a severe tropical storm.
• 1988 – a severe tropical storm which made landfall on the extreme northern tip of Luzon Island and then Hong Kong.

• King (1950) – was the most severe hurricane to strike the city of Miami, Florida since the 1926 Miami hurricane.
• Kitty

• 1949 – struck Japan after Typhoon Judith.
• 1971 –

Southwest Indian Ocean:

• 1973 –

• Klaus

• 2009 – caused substantial damage in Spain and France with at least 23 fatalities reported.
• 1984 – formed in the eastern Caribbean Sea, caused damage in the Leeward and Virgin Islands.
• 1990 – was a minimal Atlantic hurricane that dropped heavy rainfall across the Lesser Antilles in October 1990.

• Knut

• 1981 –
• 1987 –

• Kompasu

• 2004 –
• 2010 – Skirted Okinawa before making landfall in Seoul, South Korea.

• 2016 – struck Japan.

• 2021 –

• Kong-rey

• 2001 –
• 2007 –
• 2013 –
• 2018 – A Category 5 super typhoon that affected Japan and South Korea.

• Koppu

• 2013 –
• 2009 – struck China.
• 2015 – struck Philippines as a strong typhoon.

• Koryn

• 1990 –
• 1993 – struck the Philippines and China.

• Kristy

• 1971 –
• 1978 –
• 1982 –
• 1988 –
• 1994 –
• 2000 –
• 2006 –
• 2012 –
• 2018 –

• Krosa

• 2001 – a storm that never affected land.
• 2007 – struck Taiwan and China.
• 2013 – struck the Philippines and affected Vietnam.
• 2019 (T1910, 11W) — struck Japan as a tropical storm.

• Krovanh

• 2003 – struck the Philippines and China.
• 2009 –
• 2015 –
• 2020 –

• Kujira

• 2003 – threatened the Philippines and Taiwan before approaching Japan.
• 2009 – affected the Philippines before turning out to sea.
• 2015 – formed in the South China Sea.
• 2020 –

• Kulap

• 2005 – remained over the open ocean.
• 2011 – passed through the Ryukyu Islands.
• 2017 – remained over the open ocean.

• Kyle

• 1990 –
• 1993 – struck the Philippines and Vietnam.
• 1996 – formed in the western Caribbean and made landfall over Guatemala and Honduras as a weakening storm, causing no significant damage.
• 2002 – long-lived hurricane, bobbed in and out of the Carolinas, causing $5 million damage, mostly from tornadoes.
• 2008 – formed north of Hispaniola and made landfall in Nova Scotia as a minimal hurricane.
• 2020 – earliest eleventh named storm on record, formed off the coast of New Jersey and dissipated out in the ocean.

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