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The 1990 Pacific typhoon season was another active season, with 31 storms being named during the year. It had no official bounds; it ran year-round in 1990, but most
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formed in the northwestern
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between May and November. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the northwestern
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. Storms that form east of the date line and north of the equator are called hurricanes; see
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. Tropical Storms formed in the entire west Pacific basin were assigned a name by the
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. Tropical depressions in this basin have the "W" suffix added to their number. Tropical depressions that enter or form in the Philippine area of responsibility are assigned a name by the
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or PAGASA. This can often result in the same storm having two names.


Season summary

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Systems

41 tropical cyclones formed this year in the Western Pacific, of which 31 became tropical storms. 19 storms reached typhoon intensity, of which 4 reached super typhoon strength.


Severe Tropical Storm Koryn

On January 12, both the JMA and the
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identified a tropical depression in the northwest Pacific Ocean. The depression intensified over the period of a day to become a tropical storm on January 13, when it received the name ''Koryn'' from the JTWC. According to them, but not the JMA, Koryn reached typhoon strength on January 15, when it peaked in intensity. The storm then weakened quite rapidly until it became extratropical on January 17, at 0000 UTC.


Tropical Storm Lewis

Tropical Storm Lewis was a minimal tropical storm that only held said intensity for two days staying in the ocean


Typhoon Marian

Marian was a typhoon in the South China Sea. Despite being weak at landfall, Marian had a significant impact on Taiwan's agricultural industry, with losses at NT$270 million (US$10 million).


CMA Tropical Depression 04


CMA Tropical Depression 05


Tropical Depression 04W

04W was short-lived.


Severe Tropical Storm Nathan (Akang)

A tropical disturbance trekked across the
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in mid June, upon entering the
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a depression formed. The depression was upgraded to Tropical Storm Nathan on June 16. Tropical Storm Nathan reached peak intensity of 65 mph (100 km/h) shortly before striking
Hainan Island Hainan is an island province and the southernmost province of China. It consists of the eponymous Hainan Island and various smaller islands in the South China Sea under the province's administration. The name literally means "South of the Sea ...
. In the
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the Chinese ship ''Tien Fu'' sank killing 4 people. In southern
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torrential rains caused flooding in
Guangdong ) means "wide" or "vast", and has been associated with the region since the creation of Guang Prefecture in AD 226. The name "''Guang''" ultimately came from Guangxin ( zh, labels=no, first=t, t= , s=广信), an outpost established in Han dynasty ...
Province killing 10 people, two people drowned in
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due to high waves. Tropical Storm Nathan then continued northwestwards making a final landfall near the
Vietnam Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's List of countries and depende ...
/China border.Joint Typhoon Warning Center. Retrieved on 2007-12-26. The storm caused approximately 1.9 million RMB in damages (US$346,000).


Typhoon Ofelia (Bising)

The monsoon trough spawned a tropical depression east of the
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on June 15. It tracked to the northwest then westward, slowly organizing into a tropical storm on June 18. Ofelia turned more to the northwest and became a typhoon on June 20. Paralleling the east coast of the Philippines, it reached a peak of 100 mph (155 km/h) winds before hitting
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on June 23. Ofelia weakened over the country, and brushed eastern
China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...
before dissipating on June 25 near
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. Ofelia caused heavy flooding throughout its track, resulting in at least 64 casualties.


Typhoon Percy (Klaring)

Typhoon Percy, which developed on June 20, reached a peak of 135 mph winds while located a short distance east of the northern Philippines. Increasing vertical shear weakened Percy to a 95 mph typhoon before crossing extreme northern
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on the 27th, an area that felt the effects of Ofelia only days before. It remained a weak typhoon until hitting southeastern China on the 29th before dissipating on the 1st. Percy caused serious damage and flooding in the
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and northern Philippines, amounting to 9 deaths.


Tropical Storm Robyn (Deling)

The outskirts of the storm brought of rainfall to
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in the
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.


CMA Tropical Depression 11

CMA 11 was a short lived system which hit Vietnam, bringing heavy rains, overall minimal damage.


Severe Tropical Storm Tasha (Emang)

65 mph Tropical Storm Tasha, which developed on July 21 and meandered through the
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, hit southern China on the 30th, 75 miles east of
Hong Kong Hong Kong)., Legally Hong Kong, China in international treaties and organizations. is a special administrative region of China. With 7.5 million residents in a territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the wor ...
. The storm caused torrential flooding in southern China, causing widespread damage and 108 fatalities. Tasha caused approximately 391 million RMB (US$71.2 million) in damage.


Typhoon Steve

Steve recurved out at sea.


Typhoon Vernon

Vernon followed Steve's track.


Severe Tropical Storm Winona

The origins of Winona can be traced back to Severe Tropical Storm Tasha. On August 2, the remnant low of Tasha, as a patch of thunderstorms over northeastern China, was pushed to the east by a weather front from the west. By August 4, Tasha entered the Yellow Sea, before being pushed south by an anticyclone off northeastern Korea, into the East China Sea. Although the same system, Tasha was named Winona, as it started to strengthen into a tropical storm by August 7. It reached peak intensity with an eye-like feature on August 8, before landfalling over Japan the next day. Later, the remnants became extratropical.


Typhoon Yancy (Gading)

Typhoon Yancy killed 12 people in the Philippines after a landslide destroyed a dormitory. In China, severe damage occurred and at least 216 people were killed. 20 people were killed in Taiwan.


Tropical Storm Aka

On 15:00 UTC on August 13, a weakening Tropical Storm Aka crossed into the basin from the Central Pacific, resulting in the
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(CPHC) passing its responsibility to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC). The next day, the JTWC downgraded Aka into a tropical depression since it had lost convection due to persistent wind shear caused by a nearby TUTT. On 12:00 UTC on August 15, the JTWC issued the last warning on the system, as it passed south of Wake Island.


Typhoon Zola

On August 15, a large area of convection associated with the inflow of developing Typhoon Yancy was cut off, as Yancy was moving too fast to the west for the convection in the east to be absorbed into Yancy. By August 16, the convection developed a mid to low level circulation, and developed into tropical storm by August 18. Zola intensified into a typhoon by the next day, before reaching peak intensity on August 21. By the next day, Zola made landfall over Japan, before dissipating north of Japan. High winds and heavy rains produced by the storm killed six people and injured 22 others in Japan.


Typhoon Abe (Iliang)

Forming on August 23 from a tropical disturbance, the depression which would eventually develop into Typhoon Abe initially tracked in a steady west-northwestward direction. As a result of an intense monsoon surge, the system's trajectory briefly changed to an eastward then northward path before returning to its original track. Abe only intensified by a small amount between 0000 UTC August 24 and 0600 UTC August 27 due to the disruptive effects of the surge, and on August 30, Abe peaked in intensity as a Category 2-equivalent typhoon on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale. After peaking in intensity, Abe crossed the
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and the East China Sea, making landfall in
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where it affected the provinces of
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and
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before entering the Yellow Sea, crossing South Korea, and finally transitioning into an
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. Typhoon Abe killed 108–195 people after it caused flooding and landslides in the
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and
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, ravaged coastal areas of China, and brought high waves to
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. Abe, which is responsible for killing 108 in China, affected half of Zhejiang's land area and a fourth of its population, leaving thousands homeless and causing ¥3.5 billion yuan (
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, $741.5–743 million
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) to be lost in damages. Additional damage and one fatality occurred in
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in Japan, where at least ¥890 million
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(JPY, US$6 million) in damage was caused.


Typhoon Becky (Heling)

Tropical Storm Becky, having developed on August 20, hit northern
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on the 26th as a strong tropical storm. It strengthened over the South China Sea to an 80 mph typhoon, and hit northern
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at that intensity on the 29th. The lowest station pressure measured at a weather station in Ba Đồn on August 29 was 987.0 hPa. Becky was responsible for killing 32 people and causing heavy flooding.


Tropical Storm Cecil

Cecil hit China. Despite being weak, Cecil caused intense flooding. Numerous homes were inundated and landslides were reported. 42 people were killed.


Typhoon Dot (Loleng)

Typhoon Dot formed from a monsoon trough to the southwest of
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. Dot moved steadily towards the northwest and strengthened into a typhoon. Typhoon Dot reached peak intensity of 85 mph before weakening slight before landfall on eastern
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on 7 September. After passing Taiwan Dot regained typhoon intensity in the
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before making a final landfall in
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,
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. On northern
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rains from Typhoon Dot caused floods killing 4 people, on Taiwan 7 people died. Losses in Taiwan reached NT$730 million (US$27.1 million). Dot caused heavy flooding in China. 74 people were killed and losses reached 1.02 billion RMB (US$216 million).


Typhoon Ed (Miding)

Severe flooding produced by the storm killed at least 18 people in Vietnam. At least 4,500 homes were destroyed and another 140,000 were inundated.


Typhoon Flo (Norming)

Typhoon Flo, which developed on September 12, rapidly intensified on the 16th and 17th to a 165 mph super typhoon near
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. Vertical shear weakened it as it recurved to the northeast, and Flo hit
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,
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, on the 19th as a 100 mph typhoon. It continued rapidly northeastward, became extratropical on the 20th, and dissipated on the 22nd. Widespread flooding and landslides killed 32 and caused millions in damage.


Typhoon Gene (Oyang)

A tropical disturbance consolidated into a tropical depression on the 23rd of September to the east of the
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. Tropical Storm Gene was named as the storm moved towards the northwest and strengthened into a typhoon the next day. Typhoon Gene reached peak intensity of 95 mph on the 27th shortly before recurving towards the northeast. Gene then skimmed the coasts of
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,
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and
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Islands in
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before moving out to sea and turning extratropical. Winds on 85 mph were recorded on Kyūshū and heavy rains fell across the region, resulting floods and landslides killed 4 people.


Typhoon Hattie (Pasing)

Typhoon Hattie formed as Typhoon Gene was accelerating towards
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. Hattie strengthened into a typhoon on 3 October while moving towards the northwest and reached a peak intensity of 105 mph the next day. Typhoon Hattie began to recurve while west of the island of
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. Heavy rains from Typhoons Flo, Gene and Hattie broke the drought that plagued the island. As Hattie accelerated towards Japan it was downgraded to a tropical storm before brushing pass
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and
Shikoku is the smallest of the List of islands of Japan#Main islands, four main islands of Japan. It is long and between at its widest. It has a population of 3.8 million, the least populated of Japan's four main islands. It is south of Honshu ...
before making landfall on
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Island. Heavy rains caused a landslide on Shikoku Island killing three people when a landslide hit a bus.


Tropical Storm Ira

Severe flooding in Thailand triggered by heavy rains from Ira killed at least 24 people.


Tropical Storm Jeana

Jeana hit southeast Asia.


Typhoon Kyle

A category 2 typhoon which did not impact land directly. It formed on October 14 and was classified as a Tropical Depression. It became a tropical storm and a typhoon later. Kyle reached a peak intensity of a Category 2 typhoon on September 20. Then, the storm turned eastward instead of affecting Japan. It stated to weaken and was classified as a tropical storm and eventually dissipated on the 22nd. Kyle did not cause any deaths or damages.


Tropical Storm Lola

Extreme rainfall, peaking near triggered extensive flooding that left some regions under of water. Economic losses reached US$2.1 million. 23 people were killed by the storm.


Typhoon Mike (Ruping)

Super Typhoon Mike was the deadliest typhoon of the season. It struck the central Philippines in mid-November, where landslides, flooding, and extreme wind damage to caused over 748 casualties and over $1.94 billion in damage (1990 USD). The name Mike was retired after this season and replaced with Manny.


Severe Tropical Storm Nell

Nell also hit southeast Asia.


Tropical Depression Susang


Typhoon Owen (Uding)

As Super Typhoon Owen crossed the
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in mid to late November, it caused extreme damage to the many islands. Some islands lost 95%-99% of the dwellings, as well as 80-90% crops being destroyed. Through all of the damage, Owen only killed 2 people.
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Typhoon Page (Tering)

Super Typhoon Page formed on November 21 as a tropical depression. From there, it tracked slowly westward, making a cyclonic loop. Page continued westward, and strengthened into a Category 5 typhoon. It then accelerated northeastward, making landfall in Japan on November 30 as a Category 1 typhoon. Page dissipated over northeast Japan on December 3.


Typhoon Russ

The final storm of the season, Russ, formed on December 13. The typhoon brought heavy damage to
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when it passed near the island on December 20. Damage estimates ranged as high as $120 million (1990 USD), but nobody perished in the storm.


Storm names

During the season 30 named tropical cyclones developed in the Western Pacific and were named by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center, when it was determined that they had become tropical storms. These names were contributed to a revised list which started on mid-1989.


Philippines

The
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uses its own naming scheme for tropical cyclones in their area of responsibility. PAGASA assigns names to tropical depressions that form within their area of responsibility and any tropical cyclone that might move into their area of responsibility. Should the list of names for a given year prove to be insufficient, names are taken from an auxiliary list, the first 10 of which are published each year before the season starts. Names not retired from this list will be used again in the 1994 season. This is the same list used for the 1986 season. PAGASA uses its own naming scheme that starts in the
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, with names of Filipino female names ending with "ng" (A, B, K, D, etc.). Names that were not assigned/going to use are marked in .


Retirement

Due to the severity of damage and loss of life caused by ''Mike'', the name was retired and was replaced with '' Manny'' and was first used in the
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. PAGASA also retired the name ''Ruping'' for similar reasons and was replaced with ''Ritang'' for the 1994 season.


Season effects

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See also

*
1990 Pacific hurricane season The 1990 Pacific hurricane season was a very active season which observed 21 named storms within the basin. The season also produced the fourth highest ACE index value on record. The season was officially started on May 15 in the eastern Pacifi ...
*
1990 Atlantic hurricane season The 1990 Atlantic hurricane season was the most active Atlantic hurricane season since 1969 Atlantic hurricane season, 1969, with a total of 14 Tropical cyclone naming, named storms. The season also featured eight hurricanes, one of which ...
*
1990 North Indian Ocean cyclone season The 1990 North Indian Ocean cyclone season featured a below average total of twelve cyclonic disturbances and one of the most intense tropical cyclones in the basin on record. During the season the systems were primarily monitored by the India M ...
* South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season: 1989–90, 1990–91 * Australian region cyclone season: 1989–90, 1990–91 * South Pacific cyclone season: 1989–90, 1990–91


References


External links


Satellite movie of 1990 Pacific typhoon season

Japan Meteorological Agency

Joint Typhoon Warning Center
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China Meteorological Agency

National Weather Service Guam



Macau Meteorological Geophysical Services

Korea Meteorological Agency

Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration


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