Kika is the 5th name on Central Pacific list 3. 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 Kika comes 20 names after it. It is the only storm named Kika in our archive, which covers every ocean since 1980.
No. Kika is on Central Pacific list 3, 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; Kika comes 20 names after it.
Kika formed in the Central Pacific in August 2008 and peaked as a tropical storm with maximum sustained winds of 40 mph (65 km/h) and a minimum pressure of 1007 mb. It did not make landfall. The system was tracked for 12 days.
Tropical Storm Kika (2008): track and historyKika is name 5 of 12 on Central Pacific list 3. 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 Kika in 2008, in the Central Pacific. It formed on August 4, peaked at 40 mph (65 km/h) and lasted 12 days. It did not make landfall. Kika is name 5 on Central Pacific list 3. It is the only storm named Kika in our archive, which covers every ocean since 1980.