Lana is the 6th 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 Lana comes 21 names after it. It is the only storm named Lana in our archive, which covers every ocean since 1980.
No. Lana 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; Lana comes 21 names after it.
Lana formed in the East Pacific in July 2009 and peaked as a tropical storm with maximum sustained winds of 65 mph (100 km/h) and a minimum pressure of 995 mb. It did not make landfall. The system was tracked for 6 days.
Tropical Storm Lana (2009): track and historyLana is name 6 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 Lana in 2009, in the East Pacific. It formed on July 28, peaked at 65 mph (100 km/h) and lasted 6 days. It did not make landfall. Lana is name 6 on Central Pacific list 3. It is the only storm named Lana in our archive, which covers every ocean since 1980.