The name Fabian was used for four tropical cyclones in the Atlantic Ocean (Fabian replaced Frederic after the 1979 season) and three in the western Pacific.
It was used on the modern six-year lists in the Atlantic:
- 1985's Tropical Storm Fabian - moved northeast through Atlantic, threatened no land.
- 1991's Tropical Storm Fabian - passed over Isle of Youth and mainland Cuba, but no damage or casualties were reported.
- 1997's Tropical Storm Fabian - formed north of Puerto Rico, moved northeast, caused no damage or casualties.
- 2003's Hurricane Fabian - caused $300 million damage and four deaths after passing directly over Bermuda.
The name Fabian was retired after the 2003 season, and was replaced by Fred in the 2009 season.
Fabian was also used for three tropical cyclones in the Western Pacific:
- 1981's Tropical Storm Fabian (T8123, 23W, Unsing)
- 1985's Tropical Storm Fabian (T8501, 02W, Atring) - moderately strong storm that never threatened land.
- 1988's Tropical Storm Fabian (T8815, 12W)
Famous quotes containing the words tropical, storm and/or fabian:
“Physical force has no value, where there is nothing else. Snow in snow-banks, fire in volcanoes and solfataras is cheap. The luxury of ice is in tropical countries, and midsummer days. The luxury of fire is, to have a little on our hearth; and of electricity, not the volleys of the charged cloud, but the manageable stream on the battery-wires. So of spirit, or energy; the rests or remains of it in the civil and moral man, are worth all the cannibals in the Pacific.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“In the very midst of the crowd about this wreck, there were men with carts busily collecting the seaweed which the storm had cast up, and conveying it beyond the reach of the tide, though they were often obliged to separate fragments of clothing from it, and they might at any moment have found a human body under it. Drown who might, they did not forget that this weed was a valuable manure. This shipwreck had not produced a visible vibration in the fabric of society.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Oh, Anna, the things I did! The things I did.... Oh, the things I did!”
—Jo Eisinger, and Jules Dassin. Harry Fabian (Richard Widmark)