Hurricane History Map

2014 South Pacific and Australian region season

10 storms formed in the South Pacific and Australian region basin in 2014, from 4 January 2014 to 18 April 2014.

Tap or scroll to load the interactive map

Years2014
Ocean basin

Choosing a minimum category hides storms with no wind speed in the record. To see which storms have passed near you, search a town or ZIP code, or tap the map.

Key
  • Tropical depression Winds below 34 knots (39 mph)
  • Tropical storm 34 to 63 knots (39 to 73 mph)
  • Category 1 64 to 82 knots (74 to 95 mph)
  • Category 2 83 to 95 knots (96 to 110 mph)
  • Category 3 96 to 112 knots (111 to 129 mph), major
  • Category 4 113 to 136 knots (130 to 156 mph), major
  • Category 5 137 knots (157 mph) or more, major
  • Unknown intensity No wind speed in the record
  • Post-tropical Storm has become post-tropical (dashed line)

How to read the lines. Each line is the track of one storm, drawn through its six-hourly positions and coloured by its intensity at each point (the Saffir-Simpson scale), so a line changes colour as the storm strengthens or weakens. Tap a line for its details, or tap anywhere else to see which storms have passed nearby. Weaker storms appear as you zoom in. Hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones are the same kind of storm with different names in different oceans.

The 2014 season in numbers

The record holds 10 storms for the 2014 South Pacific and Australian region season, of which 10 had names.10 reached tropical storm strength (34 knots or more), 4 reached cyclone strength (category 1 or more) and 3 were major (category 3 or more).

  • 10storms
  • 10tropical storm strength or more
  • 4cyclone strength or more
  • 3major (category 3 to 5)
  • 86accumulated cyclone energy

Accumulated cyclone energy adds up the squared wind speed of every position of 34 knots or more, divided by 10,000. It is approximate here because the winds are 1-minute equivalents, and it is mostly useful for comparing seasons of one basin.

Strongest storms of 2014

  • Gillian (2014)7 March 2014 to 28 March 2014, peak Category 5 (140 kt), 927 hPa
  • Ita (2014)2 April 2014 to 18 April 2014, peak Category 5 (140 kt), 922 hPa
  • Ian (2014)4 January 2014 to 15 January 2014, peak Category 4 (130 kt), 935 hPa
  • Lusi (2014)8 March 2014 to 17 March 2014, peak Category 1 (70 kt), 960 hPa
  • Mike (2014)17 March 2014 to 26 March 2014, peak Tropical storm (57 kt), 986 hPa

All 10 storms of 2014

StormPeak
Ian Category 4
June Tropical storm
Dylan Tropical storm
Edna Tropical storm
Kofi Tropical storm
Gillian Category 5
Hadi Tropical storm
Lusi Category 1
Mike Tropical storm
Ita Category 5

← 2013 · 2015 → · All seasons

Other basins in 2014

Embed this map

Copy this code into your web page. It is free to use. Please keep the link under the map, as it is how people find where the map comes from.