How to Use tropical cyclone in a Sentence

tropical cyclone

noun

• Kathleen was was the first tropical cyclone to hit the San Diego area since 1939.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Sep. 2022
• In conditions that won't form a tropical cyclone, this is the end of the line.
  — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 31 Aug. 2021
• The Gulf Coast faces a 30% threat of a tropical cyclone over the next few days, as low pressure continues to form.
  — Max Golembo, ABC News, 12 July 2022
• In fact, 97% of all tropical cyclones in the Atlantic form during the season.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 1 June 2023
• The forecast is for 4-6-foot tropical cyclone surf on Sunday, the first day of the event, with larger waves on Monday.
  — Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 July 2021
• Ordinarily the strongest winds in a tropical cyclone occur to the right of the center, in this case to the east.
  — Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2021
• Shaheen was the first tropical cyclone to make landfall along Oman’s northern coast since 1890 and only the third on record.
  — Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2021
• On the heels of Typhoon In-fa is the potential for a new tropical cyclone to form in the western Pacific Ocean.
  — Jackson Dill, CNN, 22 July 2021
• On Sunday, the tropical wave has moved off of the African west coast and has a 40% chance of tropical cyclone development in the next 5 days.
  — Elainie Barraza, Orlando Sentinel, 7 Aug. 2022
• The first tropical cyclone to make landfall on the west coast of Florida in 2020 will be Elsa in July.
  — NBC News, 6 July 2021
• Experts predict at least one more tropical cyclone could form in the Atlantic basin this year.
  — Ashley R. Williams, USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2022
• The last tropical cyclone to make landfall on the west coast of Florida in 2020 was Eta last November.
  — NBC News, 6 July 2021
• In the past three years, the US has seen at least one tropical cyclone make landfall in October and November.
  — Judson Jones, CNN, 22 Sep. 2020
• Laura, now a post-tropical cyclone, is moving east towards the Mid-Atlantic states with winds of about 25 mph.
  — Christina Maxouris, CNN, 29 Aug. 2020
• In Oman, a rare tropical cyclone dumped years' worth of rainfall, bringing deadly floods to the desert landscape that rarely sees much rain in an entire year.
  — Pedram Javaheri, CNN, 6 Oct. 2021
• About 90% of tropical cyclone deaths in the United States are from water, not wind, Brennan noted.
  — Max Chesnes, Miami Herald, 6 Feb. 2024
• Those systems include one in the eastern Atlantic with a 70% chance of becoming a tropical cyclone over the next five days.
  — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 16 Sep. 2020
• The busiest tropical cyclone basin is in the western Pacific, where there are the most landfalls and the shift westward is twice as big as the global average.
  — Seth Borenstein, Star Tribune, 28 Jan. 2021
• Martin transitioned to a post-tropical cyclone on Nov. 3 but remained a large and strong storm over the north-central Atlantic for a few more days.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 30 Nov. 2022
• In fact, the long-term average for July tropical cyclones in the Atlantic is only 1.
  — Joel Shannon, USA TODAY, 9 July 2024
• And Teddy, now a a post-tropical cyclone, has reached Nova Scotia.
  — Carlie Wells, NOLA.com, 23 Sep. 2020
• The center gives this area to watch a 40% chance of tropical cyclone formation by Sunday morning.
  — Jackson Dill and Haley Brink, CNN, 21 May 2021
• The storm system has since weakened as of Wednesday morning and has become a post-tropical cyclone for the second time, according to the NHC.
  — Fox News, 23 Sep. 2020
• Dry air, of course, saps the thunderstorms that are essential to forming a tropical cyclone.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 28 Nov. 2022
• One showed Hurricane Gilbert, which used to be the most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded in the Atlantic basin.
  — Claire Grunewald, Miami Herald, 5 June 2024
• In the south Pacific and Indian Ocean, a storm is known simply as a tropical cyclone, regardless of the strength of the winds or intensity of the storm.
  — Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 10 July 2020
• The state had already been battered by a tropical cyclone last September, when more than 30 people were killed.
  — Fox News, 3 May 2024
• Rogers’ team found that, aided by a new, regular source of data, the forecast of the tropical cyclone’s track improved by 15 percent.
  — Meghan Herbst, Wired, 25 June 2021
• The study found that globally in the last four decades, the tropical cyclone intensification rate has grown by 3 knots per 24 hours.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 2 May 2024
• No other Atlantic hurricane in the past decade has made landfall on U.S. shores so early in tropical cyclone season, which began in June.
  — Scott Dance, Washington Post, 8 July 2024

Last Updated: 2 Sep 2024