Virgil is the 20th name on the 2028 list of East Pacific hurricane names, so it is next scheduled for 2028. It is used that year only if the season reaches the letter V. Since 1992, two storms have been named Virgil; the strongest, in 1992, peaked as a Category 4 hurricane.
No. Virgil is on the 2028 list of East Pacific names, and it is not among the 22 names NHC lists as retired from the eastern and central Pacific (Tropical Cyclone Naming History and Retired Names).
Virgil is next scheduled for 2028, when the 2028 list is used. The six lists rotate, so each one returns every six years.
A name on the list is used only if the season gets that far. Virgil is name 20 of 24, and 6 of the 46 East Pacific seasons from 1980 to 2025 got that far.
Virgil formed in the West Pacific in August 1999 and peaked as a Category 1 typhoon with maximum sustained winds of 80 mph (130 km/h) and a minimum pressure of 994 mb. It did not make landfall. The system was tracked for 7 days.
Typhoon Virgil (1999): track and historyVirgil formed in the East Pacific in October 1992 and peaked as a Category 4 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 130 mph (215 km/h) and a minimum pressure of 948 mb. It made landfall near Coahuayana de Hidalgo, Mexico. The system was tracked for 5 days.
Hurricane Virgil (1992): track and history| Storm | Landfall near | Date (UTC) | Wind |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virgil 1992 | Coahuayana de Hidalgo, Mexico | 1992-10-04 03:00 | 110 mph / 175 km/h |
Names go in alphabetical order, one per storm, as each storm reaches tropical-storm strength (39 mph, 34 knots), so a storm’s place in its season decides its name.
In 1992, Virgil was the 20th name used in the East Pacific season.
Storms named Virgil appear in more than one ocean in our archive:
Each ocean region keeps its own name lists, drawn up by its own WMO regional committee (Tropical cyclone naming), so the same name can be given to unrelated storms in different oceans.
The most recent was Typhoon Virgil in 1999, in the West Pacific. It formed on August 23, peaked at 80 mph (130 km/h) and lasted 7 days. It did not make landfall. Virgil is the 20th name on the 2028 list of East Pacific names. Before that, the name was used in 1992.
Hurricane Virgil in 1992 was the strongest, peaking as a Category 4 hurricane with winds of 130 mph (215 km/h) and a minimum pressure of 948 mb. It formed in the East Pacific in October and made landfall near Coahuayana de Hidalgo, Mexico. The weakest of the two, in 1999, peaked at 80 mph (130 km/h).