Wali is the 12th 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 Wali comes 27 names after it. It is the only storm named Wali in our archive, which covers every ocean since 1980.
No. Wali 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; Wali comes 27 names after it.
Wali formed in the Central Pacific in July 2014 and peaked as a tropical storm with maximum sustained winds of 45 mph (75 km/h) and a minimum pressure of 1003 mb. It did not make landfall. The system was tracked for 6 days.
Tropical Storm Wali (2014): track and historyWali is name 12 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 Wali in 2014, in the Central Pacific. It formed on July 13, peaked at 45 mph (75 km/h) and lasted 6 days. It did not make landfall. Wali is name 12 on Central Pacific list 3. It is the only storm named Wali in our archive, which covers every ocean since 1980.