The 1954 Pacific typhoon season has no official bounds; it ran year-round in 1954, but most tropical cyclones tend to form in the northwestern Pacific Ocean between June and December. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the northwestern Pacific Ocean.
The scope of this article is limited to the Pacific Ocean, north of the equator and west of the
International Date Line
The International Date Line (IDL) is the line extending between the South and North Poles that is the boundary between one calendar day and the next. It passes through the Pacific Ocean, roughly following the 180.0° line of longitude and de ...
. Storms that form east of the date line and north of the equator are called hurricanes; see
1954 Pacific hurricane season
The 1954 Pacific hurricane season featured below-average activity, with eleven tropical storms identified. The season officially started on May 15 and lasted until November 30. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year ...
. Tropical Storms formed in the entire west Pacific basin were assigned a name by the
Fleet Weather Center
The Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) is a joint United States Navy – United States Air Force command in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The JTWC is responsible for the issuing of tropical cyclone warnings in the North-West Pacific Ocean, South P ...
on
Guam
Guam ( ; ) is an island that is an Territories of the United States, organized, unincorporated territory of the United States in the Micronesia subregion of the western Pacific Ocean. Guam's capital is Hagåtña, Guam, Hagåtña, and the most ...
.
Systems
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Grace may refer to:
Places United States
* Grace, Idaho, a city
* Grace (CTA station), Chicago Transit Authority's Howard Line, Illinois
* Little Goose Creek (Kentucky), location of Grace post office
* Grace, Carroll County, Missouri, an uni ...
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June is the sixth and current month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars—the latter the most widely used calendar in the world. Its length is 30 days. June succeeds May and precedes July. This month marks the start of su ...
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Marie may refer to the following.
People Given name
* Marie (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the name
** List of people named Marie
* Marie (Japanese given name)
Surname
* Jean Gabriel-Marie, French compo ...
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Tropical Storm 01W
A storm that affected the Philippines.
Typhoon Elsie
Elsie hit Hong Kong.
Typhoon Flossie
Flossie tracked into open waters.
Typhoon Grace
Typhoon Grace struck the Southern Japanese islands of Kyūshū and Shikoku as well as Okinawa. 28 people were killed and 33 were missing.
Typhoon Helen
Typhoon Ida
Ida was the strongest storm of 1954, and made landfall in China. At least 884 were killed.
Tropical Storm 07W
Typhoon Kathy
Kathy hit Japan.
Typhoon June
Typhoon June struck the Southern Japanese hitting the area west of Kanto especially hard. 107 people were killed and 39 were missing.
Typhoon Lorna
Typhoon Lorna brushed the southern coast of the Japanese island of Shikoku. 34 people were killed and 20 were missing.
Typhoon Marie
Typhoon Marie had a minimum pressure of 956 mb and a maximum windspeeds of 85 mph. Marie crossed the southern islands of Kyūshū and Shikoku before turning northeast and striking Hokkaidō island. Marie caused the ship ''
Toya Maru Toya may refer to:
Places
*Tōya, Hokkaidō, a former village in Abuta District, Iburi, Hokkaidō, Japan
*Tōyako, Hokkaidō, a town incorporating Tōya, Hokkaidō
**Tōya Station (Tōyako), a railway station in Tōyako
*Lake Tōya, a volcanic lak ...
'' to sink in the
Tsugaru Strait
The is a strait between Honshu and Hokkaido in northern Japan connecting the Sea of Japan with the Pacific Ocean. It was named after the western part of Aomori Prefecture. The Seikan Tunnel passes under it at its narrowest point 12.1 miles ...
. 1,361 people were killed and 400 were left missing. Due to this disaster, the typhoon is known in Japan as the Toya Maru Typhoon.
Typhoon Nancy
Typhoon Olga
Tropical Storm 15W
Typhoon Pamela
On October 27, Typhoon Pamela formed as a tropical depression. Pamela reached a peak of 900 mbar and 175 mph on November 1 and reached a secondary peak of 935 mbars on November 5. Gusts at landfall just to the west of Macau reached 175 km/h in
Waglan Island
Waglan Island (Chinese: 橫瀾島 Wanglan-dou) is a member of the Po Toi group of islands in Hong Kong. Waglan Lighthouse, a declared monument dating to 1893 stands there. Since 1989 Waglan lighthouse is automated and Waglan Island is uninhabite ...
and 155 km/h in
Hong Kong Observatory
The Hong Kong Observatory is a weather forecast agency of the government of Hong Kong. The Observatory forecasts the weather and issues warnings on weather-related hazards. It also monitors and makes assessments on radiation levels in Hong ...
which were the strongest since
November 10, 1900 when the mean hourly wind speed reached 113 km/h (71 mph or 61 kts) at the Royal Observatory in Tsim Sha Tsui, in par with
Typhoon Gloria. Pamela was one of four storms that reached Category 5 super typhoon status in the
South China Sea
The South China Sea is a marginal sea of the Western Pacific Ocean. It is bounded in the north by South China, in the west by the Indochinese Peninsula, in the east by the islands of Taiwan island, Taiwan and northwestern Philippines (mainly Luz ...
, with others being
Typhoon Rammasun
Typhoon Rammasun, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Glenda, was one of the only four Category 5 Tropical cyclone scales#Western Pacific, super typhoons on record in the South China Sea, with the other ones being Typhoon Pamela (1954), Pamela i ...
of 2014,
Typhoon Rai
Typhoon Rai, known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Odette, was a deadly and extremely destructive super typhoon, which was the second costliest typhoon in Philippine history behind Typhoon Haiyan in 2013. Rai was a powerful rare tropical c ...
of 2021 and
Typhoon Yagi
Typhoon Yagi, known in the Philippines as Severe Tropical Storm Enteng and in Vietnam as Typhoon No. 3 of 2024 (), was a deadly and extremely destructive tropical cyclone which caused extensive damage in Southeast Asia and South China in earl ...
of 2024.
Typhoon Ruby
Ruby hit the Philippines as a typhoon, and hit China as a tropical storm.
Typhoon Sally
Sally brushed the Philippines as a Category 5 typhoon.
Typhoon Tilda
Tilda hit the Philippines as a typhoon and dissipated near Vietnam.
Storm names
See also
*
1954 Pacific hurricane season
The 1954 Pacific hurricane season featured below-average activity, with eleven tropical storms identified. The season officially started on May 15 and lasted until November 30. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year ...
*
1954 Atlantic hurricane season
The 1954 Atlantic hurricane season was an above-average Atlantic hurricane season in terms of named storms, with 16 forming. Overall, the season resulted in $751.6 million in damage, the most of any season at the time. The season officially ...
*
1950s North Indian Ocean cyclone seasons
The years between 1950 and 1959 featured the 1950s North Indian Ocean cyclone seasons. Each season was an ongoing event in the annual cycle of tropical cyclone formation. The North Indian tropical cyclone season has no bounds, but they tend to for ...
*
1950s Australian region cyclone seasons
The following is a list of all reported tropical cyclones within the Australian region between 90°E and 160°E in the 1950s.
1950–51
*December 10–11, 1950 – A tropical cyclone passed overland to the west of Groote Eylandt, where hu ...
* Australian region cyclone seasons:
1953–54 1954–55
* South Pacific cyclone seasons:
1953–54 1954–55
* South-West Indian Ocean cyclone seasons:
1953–54 1954–55
References
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