Despite this, in 2011, the Hydrographic Center of the Brazilian Navy began giving unofficial names to tropical and subtropical cyclones in the south Atlantic.
There has been one system, Tropical Storm 01Q in 2021, that was monitored and designated 01Q by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
[14][15] Due to differences in wind speed criteria between the Japan Meteorological Agency and the Joint Typhoon Warning Center, a system will sometimes be considered a tropical storm by the JTWC but only a depression by the JMA, or vice versa.
Due to this, unnamed cyclones that met the JMA's tropical storm criteria but not those of the JTWC prior to 2000 are excluded.
Due to differences in wind speed criteria between the India Meteorological Department and the Joint Typhoon Warning Center, a system will sometimes be considered a tropical storm by the JTWC but only a depression by the IMD.