Two storms have been named Yuri since 1991: one in the Central Pacific (1994) and one in the West Pacific (1991). The strongest, in 1991, peaked as a Category 5 super typhoon with winds of 175 mph (280 km/h).
Yuri formed in the Central Pacific in October 1994 and peaked as a tropical storm with maximum sustained winds of 40 mph (65 km/h) and a minimum pressure of 996 mb. It did not make landfall. The system was tracked for 6 days.
Tropical Storm Yuri (1994): track and historyYuri formed in the West Pacific in November 1991 and peaked as a Category 5 super typhoon with maximum sustained winds of 175 mph (280 km/h) and a minimum pressure of 895 mb. It did not make landfall. The system was tracked for 18 days.
Super Typhoon Yuri (1991): track and historyStorms named Yuri 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 Tropical Storm Yuri in 1994, in the Central Pacific. It formed on October 21, peaked at 40 mph (65 km/h) and lasted 6 days. It did not make landfall. Before that, the name was used in 1991.
Super Typhoon Yuri in 1991 was the strongest, peaking as a Category 5 super typhoon with winds of 175 mph (280 km/h) and a minimum pressure of 895 mb. It formed in the West Pacific in November. The weakest of the two, in 1994, peaked at 40 mph (65 km/h).