Akoni is the 1st name on Central Pacific list 1. The Central Pacific Hurricane Center uses its four Hawaiian lists one name after another, across years, so no name has a set year. The next name up is Olana, and Akoni comes 40 names after it. Since 1982, two storms have been named Akoni; the strongest, in 1982, peaked as a tropical storm.
No. Akoni is on Central Pacific list 1, and it is not on NHC’s list of retired central and eastern Pacific names (Tropical Cyclone Naming History and Retired Names).
When the rotation reaches it. Central Pacific names are used one after the other, and after the last name of list 4 the rotation goes back to list 1 (Tropical Cyclone Names). The next name up is Olana; Akoni comes 40 names after it.
Akoni formed in the East Pacific in September 2019 and peaked as a tropical storm with maximum sustained winds of 40 mph (65 km/h) and a minimum pressure of 1004 mb. It did not make landfall. The system was tracked for 4 days.
Tropical Storm Akoni (2019): track and historyAkoni formed in the Central Pacific in August 1982 and peaked as a tropical storm with maximum sustained winds of 50 mph (85 km/h). It did not make landfall. The system was tracked for 3 days.
Tropical Storm Akoni (1982): track and historyAkoni is name 1 of 12 on Central Pacific list 1. The Central Pacific Hurricane Center names storms that reach tropical-storm strength between 140°W and the International Date Line, taking the next name in the rotation, so a Hawaiian name belongs to whichever storm comes along when its turn arrives.
The most recent was Tropical Storm Akoni in 2019, in the East Pacific. It formed on September 3, peaked at 40 mph (65 km/h) and lasted 4 days. It did not make landfall. Akoni is name 1 on Central Pacific list 1. Before that, the name was used in 1982.
Tropical Storm Akoni in 1982 was the strongest, peaking as a tropical storm with winds of 50 mph (85 km/h). It formed in the Central Pacific in August. The weakest of the two, in 2019, peaked at 40 mph (65 km/h).