Three storms have been named Ella since 1997: two in the Southern Hemisphere (1999 and 2017) and one in the Central Pacific (1997). The strongest, in 2017, peaked as a Category 1 cyclone with winds of 80 mph (130 km/h).
Ella formed in the Southern Hemisphere in May 2017 and peaked as a Category 1 cyclone with maximum sustained winds of 80 mph (130 km/h) and a minimum pressure of 970 mb. It did not make landfall. The system was tracked for 8 days.
Cyclone Ella (2017): track and historyElla formed in the Southern Hemisphere in February 1999 and peaked as a tropical storm with maximum sustained winds of 50 mph (85 km/h) and a minimum pressure of 987 mb. It did not make landfall. The system was tracked for 7 days.
Tropical Storm Ella (1999): track and historyElla formed in the Central Pacific in September 1997 and peaked as a tropical storm with maximum sustained winds of 45 mph (75 km/h). It did not make landfall. The system was tracked for 6 days.
Tropical Storm Ella (1997): track and historyStorms named Ella appear in more than one ocean in our archive:
Each ocean region keeps its own name lists, drawn up by its own WMO regional committee (Tropical cyclone naming), so the same name can be given to unrelated storms in different oceans.
The most recent was Cyclone Ella in 2017, in the Southern Hemisphere. It formed on May 7, peaked at 80 mph (130 km/h) and lasted 8 days. It did not make landfall. Before that, the name was used in 1999 and 1997.
Cyclone Ella in 2017 was the strongest, peaking as a Category 1 cyclone with winds of 80 mph (130 km/h) and a minimum pressure of 970 mb. It formed in the Southern Hemisphere in May. The weakest of the three, in 1997, peaked at 45 mph (75 km/h).