Storms Note: indicates the name was retired after that usage in the respective basin
Saba (1983) – a weak tropical cyclone that remained very far at sea.
Sadie (1994) – a weak, short-lived tropical cyclone that affected northern Australia.
Sagar (2018) – a cyclonic storm that made landfall in Somalia.
Saling 1965 – an intense, Category 5-equivalent super typhoon that affected the Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan and China. 1969 – a late-season storm which meandered in the Philippine Sea but dissipated before making landfall. 1977 – a fairly strong tropical storm that stayed at sea. 1981 – a short-lived tropical depression which was only monitored by PAGASA. 1985 – a powerful typhoon that affected the Philippines, Hainan and northern Vietnam, ultimately killing 90 people. 1988 – a relatively weak but destructive typhoon which caused widespread damage in the Philippines and Vietnam, claiming 101 lives. 1993 – a tropical storm that crossed the Philippines before brushing South China and making its final landfall in Vietnam.
Sally 1954 – Category 5 super typhoon that impacted the Philippines. 1959 – a strong tropical storm affected Philippines. 1961 – a category 1 typhoon impact Taiwan and South China. 1964 – a Category 5 super typhoon that brought widespread impacts across the Northwest Pacific. 1967 – a category 2 typhoon impact Philippines. 1970 – did not make landfall. 1971 – a severe cyclone that made landfall in Australia. 1972 – a category 1 typhoon made landfall near the Surat Thani. 1976 – did not threaten land. 1986 – impacted the Cook Islands. 1996 – a Category 5 typhoon that made landfall in a similar location in the Philippines before going on to make landfall in China. 2005 – churned in the open ocean. 2020 – made landfall in Alabama as a Category 2 hurricane. A slow-moving storm that dropped heavy rain on multiple Gulf coast states; earliest eighteenth named storm on record.
Salome 1950 – affected Hawaii; was designated from the Pacific typhoon naming lists by the Air Weather Service from Guam. 2017 – a weak tropical storm which caused minor impacts in the Philippines, South China, and Central Vietnam. 2025 – a tropical depression that affected Taiwan and Philippines.
Sam 1977 – churned in the open ocean; renamed Cyclone Sam-Celimene when it crossed 90°E. 1999 – a severe tropical storm that impacted China. 2000 – a severe tropical cyclone that impacted Western Australia. 2021 – A large and long-lived Category 4 hurricane that churned in the open ocean. 2026 – a Mediterranean tropical-like cyclone while affecting Spain and Libya; also known as Cyclone Jolina.
Samuel (2018) – a severe tropical storm that affected the Philippines and Vietnam.
Sanba 2012 – a Category 5 super typhoon that affected the Ryukyu Islands and the Korean Peninsula. 2018 – a tropical storm that affected a few minor Pacific islands. 2023 – a weak tropical storm that caused heavy rainfall.
Sandra 1966 – a tropical cyclone that formed at sea southwest of Christmas Island. 1985 – a Category 3 hurricane that stayed in the open ocean. 2013 – a Category 3 severe tropical cyclone that caused minor effects on some South Pacific islands. 2015 – a Category 4 major hurricane, the strongest November Pacific hurricane on record. 2021 – a weak tropical storm that formed far out into sea.
Sandy 1985 – a Category 4 severe tropical cyclone that affected Northern Australia. 2012 – an extremely large and destructive Category 3 Atlantic hurricane which ravaged the Caribbean and the coastal Mid-Atlantic region of the United States.
Santi 2009 – a Category 2 typhoon that impacted Philippines and Vietnam. 2013 – a Category 3 typhoon that impacted Philippines and Vietnam, killing 93 people.
Sanvu 2005 – a severe tropical storm that struck southern China. 2012 – a severe tropical storm that remained in open sea. 2017 – a Category 2 typhoon that remained in open sea. 2023 – remained in open sea.
Saola 2005 – a Category 3 typhoon that remained at sea. 2012 – a Category 2 typhoon that affected Taiwan and East China, which also brought torrential rainfall in the Philippines. 2017 – a severe tropical storm that affected Japan. 2023 – a powerful category 5 typhoon passed close to Babuyan Islands, Southern China including Hong Kong.
Saomai 2000 – a long-tracked Category 5 super typhoon that impacted southern Japan and the Korean Peninsula. 2006 – was considered as the strongest typhoon on record to strike East China.
Sara (2024) – late-season tropical storm that made landfall in Belize, caused heavy rainfall and flooding in Honduras and Nicaragua.
Sarah 1951 – remained in open waters. 1956 – A powerful Category 4 typhoon approached the Philippines Islands, it slowed down and then changed its direction and dissipated. 1959 – A powerful Category 5 typhoon among the deadliest typhoons on record in the western Pacific Ocean, killing around 2,000 people. 1962 – Category 1 typhoon that hit Japan. 1965 – a weak tropical storm that had little impact on Cambodia, Thailand and Malaysia. 1967 – A powerful Category 4 typhoon made landfall on Wake Island at peak intensity, causing widespread damage. 1971 – remained in open waters. 1973 – A powerful tropical storm has affected the Indochina peninsula. 1977 – A category 1 typhoon struck Philippines and China. 1979 – a long-living Category 3 typhoon that meandered in the South China Sea. 1983 – a weak tropical storm that caused significant damage to the Philippines. 1983 – impacted Fiji as a Category 4 severe tropical cyclone. 1986 – remained in open waters. 1989 – a powerful typhoon that caused extensive damage along an erratic path across the Western Pacific in September 1989. 1994 – a Category 4 severe tropical cyclone that affected Vanuatu and New Caledonia. 2010 – a weak tropical cyclone that affected a few South Pacific islands. 2019 – affected the northeastern portion of the Philippines.
Sarai (2019) – affected Niue and some Pacific islands.
Sarika 2004 – a severe tropical storm that did not affect any land. 2011 – affected the Philippines as a tropical storm. 2016 – Made landfall in the Philippines as a category 4 typhoon.
Saudel 2020 – a Category 1 typhoon that affected the Philippines, China and Vietnam. 2026 – a Category 4 typhoon that affected Japan, China, and Taiwan. Savannah (2019) – brought rainfall towards Java and Bali.
Sean 2010 – an Australian late-season tropical cyclone that stayed out at sea. 2011 – a weak november tropical storm that stayed in the Atlantic Ocean. 2023 – a weak tropical storm that stayed at sea. 2025 – a Category 4 severe tropical cyclone that paralleled Western Australia.
Sebastien 1995 – made landfall in Anguilla as a tropical depression. 2019 – rare late-season tropical storm that stayed out at sea.
Selma 1970 – a strong tropical storm meandered to the north, turning to the northeast and northwest before heading southeastward and dissipating. 1974 – a Category 3 severe tropical cyclone predicted to impact Darwin, but instead, the system turned westward out to sea and eventually dissipated over open water. 1987 – did not make landfall. 2017 – minimal tropical storm that made landfall in El Salvador, causing minor damage.
Selwyn 1986 – a Category 2 tropical cyclone that stayed off the coast of Western Australia. 1997 – a Category 3 severe tropical cyclone that stayed off the coast of Western Australia.
Sendang 1991 – a long-lived typhoon which brushed Guam and Japan but only caused minimal damage. 1995 – a weak and poorly organized late-season tropical cyclone which claimed 14 lives in the Philippines. 1999 – another weak tropical system which was considered as a tropical storm by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) and PAGASA.
Sendong (2011) – a severe tropical storm that destructed southern Philippines, killing about 1,500 people.
Seniang 1964 – struck the Philippines and China, killing 75 people.5 1968 – a Category 1 typhoon that made landfall Philippines. 1972 – 1976 – did not come near land. 1980 – 1984 – 1988 – 1992 – long-lived Category 5 super typhoon that affected the Marshall Islands and struck Guam. 1996 – struck Luzon and then made landfall in Vietnam. 2000 – struck the Philippines. 2006 – swept through the central Philippines in December 2006, exacerbating the damage left behind by previous Philippine typhoon strikes that year. 2014 – struck the Philippines, causing the deaths of 66 people and ₱1.27 billion in damages.
Sening 1966 – a tropical depression which was only recognized by the Philippine Weather Bureau and the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC). 1970 – impacted that Philippines as a Category 5 super typhoon, making it the third strongest typhoon to strike the country; Sening killed more than 700 people.
Senyar (2025) – a rare and very deadly tropical cyclone that brought heavy rains, caused catastrophic flooding and landslides to the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra.
Sepat 2001 – a tropical storm that did not affect any land. 2007 – a Category 5 super typhoon that mainly affected China, which caused 43 deaths and around $700 million in damages. 2013 – a tropical storm that did not affect any land. 2019 – affected Japan and was recognised as a subtropical storm by the JTWC. 2025 – nearly passed Japan as a weakening tropical depression.
Sergio 1978 – threatened Baja California. 1982 – never threatened land. 2006 – never threatened land. 2018 – a powerful and long-lived tropical cyclone that affected the Baja California Peninsula as a tropical storm and caused significant flooding throughout southern Texas in early October 2018.
Seroja (2021) – a deadly tropical cyclone that brought historic flooding and landslides to portions of southern Indonesia and East Timor and later went on to make landfall in Western Australia's Mid West region, becoming the first to do so since Cyclone Elaine in 1999.
Seru (2025) – a Category 2 tropical cyclone that stayed out in sea.
Seth 1991 – a powerful category 4 typhoon made landfall in the Philippines as a Tropical Storm. 1994 – a powerful category 4 typhoon that passed along the coast of China and hit South Korea. 2021 – a category 2 tropical cyclone that affected the northeastern states of Australia.
Seymour 1992 – a Category 1 hurricane that stayed off the coast of Baja California. 2016 – a Category 4 hurricane that stayed out in sea.
Shaheen (2021) – a Category 1 tropical cyclone was caused devastating effects mainly Oman, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and UAE.
Shakhti (2025) – formed in the Arabian Sea and did not cause significant damage to land.
Shanshan 2000 – a Category 4 typhoon but it was not a threat to land. 2006 – a Category 4 super typhoon that impacted Japan. 2013 – a weak February storm that brought rains to the Philippines, Vietnam and Malaysia. 2018 – a Category 2 typhoon that remained at sea. 2024 – a Category 4 typhoon that made landfall in Japan.
Sharon 1971 – a November weak and short-lived tropical storm 1983 – a Category 2 tropical cyclone that remained in open waters. 1991 – a March severe tropical storm that affected some Pacific islands. 1993 – a Category 4 severe tropical cyclone that remained in open waters. 1994 – affected the Philippines and South China bringing torrential rainfall which caused billions of damages.
Shary (2010) – a short-lived tropical cyclone that stayed over the open waters of the North Atlantic in late October 2010.
Sheila 1971 – turned out to be the same system as Sophie, which made landfall over Western Australia as a Category 5 severe tropical cyclone. 2005 – a weak, short-lived tropical cyclone.
Shirley 1952 – a weak tropical storm that made landfall Vietnam as tropical depression. 1957 – a Category 3 typhoon that minimal affected Northern Philippines. 1960 – a Category 4 typhoon that made landfall on southeastern China as a tropical storm.