Nona is the 8th name on Central Pacific list 2. 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 Nona comes 11 names after it. It is the only storm named Nona in our archive, which covers every ocean since 1980.
No. Nona is on Central Pacific list 2, 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; Nona comes 11 names after it.
Nona formed in the Central Pacific in October 1994 and peaked as a tropical storm with maximum sustained winds of 40 mph (65 km/h). It did not make landfall. The system was tracked for 5 days.
Tropical Storm Nona (1994): track and historyNona is name 8 of 12 on Central Pacific list 2. 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 Nona in 1994, in the Central Pacific. It formed on October 21, peaked at 40 mph (65 km/h) and lasted 5 days. It did not make landfall. Nona is name 8 on Central Pacific list 2. It is the only storm named Nona in our archive, which covers every ocean since 1980.