The 2008 season
103 tropical cyclones worldwide, from NOAA’s IBTrACS archive.
Tracks
The track of every 2008 storm in every basin on one map, colored by the strength it held at each point. Each storm is listed below with its own page.
Deaths and damage
4 of this season’s storms are on record as having killed someone, 138,613 people in all, and 1 as having done damage, $38 billion of it.
The figures come from the National Hurricane Center and from Wikidata, which have filled in only some storms; a storm with no figure here may still have killed.
North Atlantic
17 storms, 16 at tropical storm strength, 9 hurricanes, 5 major; accumulated cyclone energy 144.5.
- Tropical Storm ArthurNorth Atlantic · 2008
- Hurricane BerthaNorth Atlantic · 2008
- Tropical Storm CristobalNorth Atlantic · 2008
- Hurricane DollyNorth Atlantic · 2008
- Tropical Storm EdouardNorth Atlantic · 2008
- Tropical Storm FayNorth Atlantic · 2008
- Hurricane GustavNorth Atlantic · 2008
- Hurricane HannaNorth Atlantic · 2008
- Hurricane IkeNorth Atlantic · 2008 · 195 deaths · $38 billion
- Tropical Storm JosephineNorth Atlantic · 2008
- Hurricane KyleNorth Atlantic · 2008
- Hurricane LauraNorth Atlantic · 2008
- Tropical Storm MarcoNorth Atlantic · 2008
- Tropical Storm NanaNorth Atlantic · 2008
- Hurricane OmarNorth Atlantic · 2008
- Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 2008
- Hurricane PalomaNorth Atlantic · 2008 · 19 deaths
Eastern Pacific
19 storms, 17 at tropical storm strength, 7 hurricanes, 2 major; accumulated cyclone energy 83.8.
- Tropical Storm AlmaEastern Pacific · 2008
- Hurricane BorisEastern Pacific · 2008
- Tropical Storm CristinaEastern Pacific · 2008
- Tropical Storm DouglasEastern Pacific · 2008
- Unnamed tropical depressionEastern Pacific · 2008
- Hurricane ElidaEastern Pacific · 2008
- Hurricane FaustoEastern Pacific · 2008
- Hurricane GenevieveEastern Pacific · 2008
- Tropical Storm KikaEastern Pacific · 2008
- Hurricane HernanEastern Pacific · 2008
- Tropical Storm IselleEastern Pacific · 2008
- Tropical Storm JulioEastern Pacific · 2008
- Tropical Storm KarinaEastern Pacific · 2008
- Tropical Storm LowellEastern Pacific · 2008
- Hurricane MarieEastern Pacific · 2008
- Hurricane NorbertEastern Pacific · 2008
- Tropical Storm OdileEastern Pacific · 2008
- Unnamed tropical depressionEastern Pacific · 2008
- Tropical Storm PoloEastern Pacific · 2008
Western Pacific
28 storms, 28 at tropical storm strength, 12 typhoons, 8 major; accumulated cyclone energy 177.5.
- Unnamed tropical stormWestern Pacific · 2008
- Typhoon NeoguriWestern Pacific · 2008 · 26 deaths
- Super Typhoon RammasunWestern Pacific · 2008
- Tropical Storm MatmoWestern Pacific · 2008
- Typhoon HalongWestern Pacific · 2008
- Typhoon NakriWestern Pacific · 2008
- Typhoon FengshenWestern Pacific · 2008
- Typhoon KalmaegiWestern Pacific · 2008
- Typhoon Fung-WongWestern Pacific · 2008
- Tropical Storm KammuriWestern Pacific · 2008
- Tropical Storm PhanfoneWestern Pacific · 2008
- Unnamed tropical stormWestern Pacific · 2008
- Tropical Storm VongfongWestern Pacific · 2008
- Typhoon NuriWestern Pacific · 2008
- Unnamed tropical stormWestern Pacific · 2008
- Typhoon SinlakuWestern Pacific · 2008
- Unnamed tropical stormWestern Pacific · 2008
- Unnamed tropical stormWestern Pacific · 2008
- Typhoon HagupitWestern Pacific · 2008
- Super Typhoon JangmiWestern Pacific · 2008
- Tropical Storm HigosWestern Pacific · 2008
- Tropical Storm MekkhalaWestern Pacific · 2008
- Unnamed tropical stormWestern Pacific · 2008
- Tropical Storm BaviWestern Pacific · 2008
- Tropical Storm MaysakWestern Pacific · 2008
- Tropical Storm NoulWestern Pacific · 2008
- Tropical Storm HaishenWestern Pacific · 2008
- Typhoon DolphinWestern Pacific · 2008
North Indian
10 storms, 6 at tropical storm strength, 1 at hurricane force, 1 major; accumulated cyclone energy 19.8.
- Cyclone NargisNorth Indian · 2008 · 138,373 deaths
- Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Indian · 2008
- Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Indian · 2008
- Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Indian · 2008
- Unnamed tropical stormNorth Indian · 2008
- Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Indian · 2008
- Tropical Storm RashmiNorth Indian · 2008
- Tropical Storm Khai-MukNorth Indian · 2008
- Tropical Storm NishaNorth Indian · 2008
- Unnamed tropical stormNorth Indian · 2008
South Indian
21 storms, 21 at tropical storm strength, 10 at hurricane force, 5 major; accumulated cyclone energy 156.8.
- Unnamed tropical stormSouth Indian · 2008
- Tropical Storm Ariel:LeeSouth Indian · 2008
- Cyclone BongweSouth Indian · 2008
- Tropical Storm CelinaSouth Indian · 2008
- Tropical Storm DamaSouth Indian · 2008
- Tropical Storm MelanieSouth Indian · 2008
- Tropical Storm ElnusSouth Indian · 2008
- Tropical Storm HelenSouth Indian · 2008
- Cyclone FameSouth Indian · 2008
- Cyclone GulaSouth Indian · 2008
- Cyclone HondoSouth Indian · 2008
- Unnamed tropical stormSouth Indian · 2008
- Cyclone IvanSouth Indian · 2008
- Cyclone NicholasSouth Indian · 2008
- Cyclone OpheliaSouth Indian · 2008
- Cyclone JokweSouth Indian · 2008
- Cyclone KambaSouth Indian · 2008
- Tropical Storm LolaSouth Indian · 2008
- Cyclone PanchoSouth Indian · 2008
- Tropical Storm DurgaSouth Indian · 2008
- Tropical Storm RosieSouth Indian · 2008
South Pacific
8 storms, 7 at tropical storm strength, 4 at hurricane force, 3 major; accumulated cyclone energy 46.4.
- Cyclone GubaSouth Pacific · 2008
- Cyclone DamanSouth Pacific · 2008
- Tropical Storm ElisaSouth Pacific · 2008
- Cyclone FunaSouth Pacific · 2008
- Cyclone GeneSouth Pacific · 2008
- Unnamed tropical stormSouth Pacific · 2008
- Unnamed tropical stormSouth Pacific · 2008
- Unnamed tropical depressionSouth Pacific · 2008
Sources
Storm history from NOAA NCEI’s International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship (IBTrACS), which merges the official best track of every warning agency. Live storms, cones, watches and warnings from the National Hurricane Center and the Central Pacific Hurricane Center. Archived radar from NOAA’s Level II archive.