Two storms have been named Zane since 1996: one in the Southern Hemisphere (2013) and one in the West Pacific (1996). The strongest, in 1996, peaked as a Category 3 typhoon with winds of 125 mph (205 km/h).
Zane formed in the Southern Hemisphere in April 2013 and peaked as a Category 1 cyclone with maximum sustained winds of 75 mph (120 km/h) and a minimum pressure of 974 mb. It did not make landfall. The system was tracked for 6 days.
Cyclone Zane (2013): track and historyZane formed in the West Pacific in September 1996 and peaked as a Category 3 typhoon with maximum sustained winds of 125 mph (205 km/h) and a minimum pressure of 950 mb. It did not make landfall. The system was tracked for 12 days.
Typhoon Zane (1996): track and historyStorms named Zane 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 Cyclone Zane in 2013, in the Southern Hemisphere. It formed on April 26, peaked at 75 mph (120 km/h) and lasted 6 days. It did not make landfall. Before that, the name was used in 1996.
Typhoon Zane in 1996 was the strongest, peaking as a Category 3 typhoon with winds of 125 mph (205 km/h) and a minimum pressure of 950 mb. It formed in the West Pacific in September. The weakest of the two, in 2013, peaked at 75 mph (120 km/h).