Ela is the 2nd name on Central Pacific list 4. 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 Ela comes 29 names after it. It is the only storm named Ela in our archive, which covers every ocean since 1980.
No. Ela is on Central Pacific list 4, 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; Ela comes 29 names after it.
Ela formed in the East Pacific in July 2015 and peaked as a tropical storm with maximum sustained winds of 45 mph (75 km/h) and a minimum pressure of 1002 mb. It did not make landfall. The system was tracked for 5 days.
Tropical Storm Ela (2015): track and historyEla is name 2 of 12 on Central Pacific list 4. 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 Ela in 2015, in the East Pacific. It formed on July 7, peaked at 45 mph (75 km/h) and lasted 5 days. It did not make landfall. Ela is name 2 on Central Pacific list 4. It is the only storm named Ela in our archive, which covers every ocean since 1980.