Malia is the 7th 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 Malia comes 34 names after it. It is the only storm named Malia in our archive, which covers every ocean since 1980.
No. Malia 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; Malia comes 34 names after it.
Malia formed in the Central Pacific in September 2015 and peaked as a tropical storm with maximum sustained winds of 50 mph (85 km/h) and a minimum pressure of 992 mb. It did not make landfall. The system was tracked for 6 days.
Tropical Storm Malia (2015): track and historyMalia is name 7 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 Malia in 2015, in the Central Pacific. It formed on September 17, peaked at 50 mph (85 km/h) and lasted 6 days. It did not make landfall. Malia is name 7 on Central Pacific list 4. It is the only storm named Malia in our archive, which covers every ocean since 1980.