The name Elsie has been used for fourteen tropical cyclones in the Western Pacific Ocean, one in the Australian region, and one in the South-West Indian Ocean.
In the Western Pacific:
In the South-West Indian Ocean:
In the Australian region:
The 1991 Pacific typhoon season was a slightly above-average season with 29 tropical storms, 17 typhoons and five super typhoons forming. It was quite a catastrophic season – Typhoon Yunya impacted the Philippines in mid June while in the same time experiencing a volcanic eruption, Typhoon Mireille severely impacting Japan, which became known for being the costliest typhoon on record with US$10 billion worths of damages, and Tropical Storm Thelma on November which became one of the deadliest storms to strike the Philippines, killing at least over 5,000 people.