Keli is the 5th 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 Keli comes 44 names after it. Since 1984, four storms have been named Keli; the strongest, in 1997, peaked as a Category 4 cyclone.
No. Keli 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; Keli comes 44 names after it.
Keli formed in the Central Pacific in July 2025 and peaked as a tropical storm with maximum sustained winds of 50 mph (85 km/h) and a minimum pressure of 1003 mb. It did not make landfall. The system was tracked for 3 days.
Tropical Storm Keli (2025): track and historyKeli formed in the Southern Hemisphere in June 1997 and peaked as a Category 4 cyclone with maximum sustained winds of 130 mph (215 km/h) and a minimum pressure of 955 mb. It did not make landfall. The system was tracked for 13 days.
Cyclone Keli (1997): track and historyKeli formed in the Southern Hemisphere in February 1986 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 Keli (1986): track and historyKeli formed in the Central Pacific in August 1984 and peaked as a Category 3 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 115 mph (185 km/h). It did not make landfall. The system was tracked for 5 days.
Hurricane Keli (1984): track and historyKeli is name 5 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.
Storms named Keli 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 Tropical Storm Keli in 2025, in the Central Pacific. It formed on July 27, peaked at 50 mph (85 km/h) and lasted 3 days. It did not make landfall. Keli is name 5 on Central Pacific list 1. Before that, the name was used in 1997, 1986 and 1984.
Cyclone Keli in 1997 was the strongest, peaking as a Category 4 cyclone with winds of 130 mph (215 km/h) and a minimum pressure of 955 mb. It formed in the Southern Hemisphere in June. The weakest of the four, in 2025, peaked at 50 mph (85 km/h).