Tropical cyclones affecting Tahiti and French Polynesia

[Calasanjy]

I have come across the following website which lists the tropical cyclones known to have affected French Polynesia within the last 176 years and their recorded intensities when passing by. The site is in French, but the table displayed at the bottom of the page should summarize things clearly.
http://chez.mana.pf/~pascalrene/invent.html

As HurricaneBill and I were discussing in a previous topic regarding South Pacific cyclones, the Tahitian meteorological agency named storms that were not already given a name by RSMC Nadi. For example, during the 1982/1983 season, Tahiti experienced Fiji-named cyclones Lisa, Prema, Nisha, Rewa, Veena, and William. However, Nisha was also known as Orama because Tahiti named it not realizing Fiji had already assigned a name. It appears that no alphabetical namelist had been created by Tahiti but instead they issued a name that followed the letter of the last Fiji name used. Using a hypothetical example, if the last name given by Fiji had been Esau and a storm formed that Tahiti wanted to name, the name would have to start with an F, like, say, Fetia. This contrasts with the standard naming systems used by most warning centres.

From the databases, I have found the following storms named by Tahiti, some of which were not warned on by Fiji or JTWC:

1980/1981

Tropical Storm Diola

1982/1983

Tropical Storm Nano
Cyclone Orama (Nisha)
Tropical Storm Saba
Tropical Storm Xena

1988/1989

Cyclone Hinano

Just wanted to clarify for historical interests.

[kala]

I'm currently compiling some statistics regarding South Pacific cyclones and I noticed this as well and found it very interesting that there's not much information on it.

I also noticed another cyclone in the 1980-81 season which I'd like to note here: STC Tahmar. Its name doesn't follow the convention explained here, as the cyclone before it was Esau, and the cyclone after it was Fran. Interestingly enough, Fran also formed in nearly the same region, but was named by Fiji. I'm wondering, since it wasn't named using Tahiti's normal system, if it was named by another meteorological service or if it was just a lapse in their normal convention.

[terstorm1012]

it's cool that you all are doing this project. I'd like to know more about cyclones in this region too.