Niala is the 8th 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 Niala comes 35 names after it. It is the only storm named Niala in our archive, which covers every ocean since 1980.
No. Niala 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; Niala comes 35 names after it.
Niala formed in the Central Pacific in September 2015 and peaked as a tropical storm with maximum sustained winds of 65 mph (100 km/h) and a minimum pressure of 992 mb. It did not make landfall. The system was tracked for 8 days.
Tropical Storm Niala (2015): track and historyNiala is name 8 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 Niala in 2015, in the Central Pacific. It formed on September 23, peaked at 65 mph (100 km/h) and lasted 8 days. It did not make landfall. Niala is name 8 on Central Pacific list 4. It is the only storm named Niala in our archive, which covers every ocean since 1980.