This is a list of documented and unconfirmed Sting jet occurrences.

List of sting jet cyclones

Cyclone Type Date Reference Location
Great storm of 1987 European windstorm October 15–17, 1987 [1][2][3] Southern England
Oratia European windstorm October 30, 2000 [3][4] North Sea (Lincolnshire to Norway)
Anna European windstorm February 26, 2002 [5] Central Pennines, England
Jeanette European windstorm October 27, 2002 [6][7] Wales and the English Midlands
Erwin (Gudrun) European windstorm January 2005 [7][8][9][10] Northern England
Unnamed Extratropical cyclone December 7–8, 2005 [11] East of Canada
Friedhelm European windstorm December 8, 2011 [12][13][14] Central Belt, Scotland
Ulli European windstorm January 3–4, 2012 [15][16][17][18][19][20] Central Belt, Scotland
St Jude storm
(a.k.a. Cyclone Christian) 		European windstorm October 28, 2013 [21][22][11] Possibly developing over East Anglia then over the North Sea, skirting the Netherlands coast to Germany and Denmark.
Cyclone Tini/Storm Darwin European windstorm February 12, 2014 [23][11] Southern Ireland, Irish Sea, Wales.
Egon European windstorm January 12–13, 2017 [24][25] Northern France, South-West Germany
Hurricane Humberto (2019) Hurricane September 19, 2019 [26] Bermuda
Storm Eunice European Windstorm February 14-18, 2022 [27] Isle of Wight, Southern England|}

List of unconfirmed sting jets

Cyclone Type Date Reference Location
New Year's Day Storm European windstorm January 1, 1992 [28][29] Norway
Renate European windstorm October 3, 2006 [29] Bay of Biscay and Aquitaine, France
"Oeste storm" European windstorm December 23, 2009 [30] Portugal
October 2010 North American storm complex Great Lakes cyclone October 26–27, 2010 [15] Midwest, USA
2011 Halloween nor'easter Nor'easter October 30–31, 2011 [15][31] Northeastern US
Unnamed Extratropical cyclone March 12, 2012 [32] Upper Midwest, USA
Unnamed Black Sea cyclone December 2–3, 2012 [33] Romania and the Black Sea
Gong European windstorm January 19, 2013 [30] Portugal
Arthur Extratropical cyclone (ex–Hurricane) July 5, 2014 [34][35] Canadian Maritimes
Elon (Nathan) European windstorm January 9, 2015 [36][37][38] Scotland
Zeus European windstorm March 6, 2017 [39] Brittany, France
Unnamed Low-pressure area May 4, 2018 [40] Southern Ontario, Canada

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