Tropical Storm Haima (2004)
The 2004 Pacific typhoon season was an extremely active season that featured the second-highest ACE ever recorded in a single season, second only to 1997 Pacific typhoon season, 1997, which featured 29 named storms, nineteen typhoons, and six super typhoons. It was an event in the annual cycle of tropical cyclone formation, in which tropical cyclones form in the western Pacific Ocean. The season ran throughout 2004, though most tropical cyclones typically tropical cyclogenesis, develop between May and December. The season's first named storm and also the first typhoon, Typhoon Sudal, Sudal, developed on April 4, later was reached typhoon status two days later, and became the first super typhoon of the year three days later. The season's last named storm, Tropical Storm Noru (2004), Noru, dissipated on December 22. The scope of this article is limited to the Pacific Ocean to the north of the equator between 100th meridian east, 100°E and 180th meridian. Within the northwestern Pa ...
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