Tropical Storm Dolores

The name Dolores (or Delores, a misspelling) has been used for twelve tropical cyclones in the Eastern Pacific Ocean and for one in the Western Pacific.

In the Eastern Pacific:

• Hurricane Dolores (1966) – Category 1 hurricane that stayed out at sea.
• Tropical Depression Dolores (1970) – operationally thought to have reached tropical storm strength.
• Hurricane Dolores (1974) – made landfall in the vicinity of Acapulco.
• Hurricane Dolores (1979) – Category 3 hurricane that stayed out at sea.
• Hurricane Dolores (1985) – Category 3 hurricane that never affected land.
• Hurricane Delores (1991) – did not make landfall.
• Hurricane Dolores (1997) – Category 1 hurricane that never affected land.
• Tropical Storm Dolores (2003) – short-lived storm that never threatened land.
• Tropical Storm Dolores (2009) – short-lived storm.
• Hurricane Dolores (2015) – Category 4 hurricane that brought record-breaking rain to Southern California.
• Tropical Storm Dolores (2021) – made landfall in Southwestern Mexico.

In the Western Pacific:

• Tropical Storm Dolores (1948) (T4813) – Storm that dissipated off the coast of Japan: also named Eunice after Dolores was thought to have dissipated operationally.

List of storms with the same or similar names

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