The 1969 Pacific typhoon season was the fourth least-active season on record. The season had no official bounds; it ran year-round in 1969, 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 an internationally accepted demarcation on the surface of Earth, running between the South and North Poles and serving as the boundary between one calendar day and the next. It passes through the Pacific O ...

. Storms that form east of the date line and north of the equator are called hurricanes; see

1969 Pacific hurricane season The 1969 Pacific hurricane season was an event in meteorology. It officially started on May 15, 1969, in the eastern Pacific and lasted until November 30, 1969. However, the first named storm, Ava, did not form until July 1, the latest date that ...

. Tropical Storms formed in the entire west pacific basin were assigned a name by the

Joint Typhoon Warning 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 ...

. 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

Systems

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34 tropical depressions formed this year in the Western Pacific, of which 23 became tropical storms. 13 storms reached typhoon intensity, of which 2 reached super typhoon strength.

Typhoon Phyllis

Tropical Storm Rita

Typhoon Susan (Atring)

Tropical Depression Bining

Typhoon Tess (Kuring)

Typhoon Viola (Elang)

Large Super Typhoon Viola, which formed on July 22 east of the

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, brushed northern

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with winds of 150 mph on the 26th. It continued to the northwest, and weakened due to lack of inflow. Viola hit southeastern China as a minimal typhoon on the 28th, and dissipated the next day. The typhoon caused more than 1000 deaths in and around

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, Guangdong, China, where it made the landfall.

Tropical Depression Daling

Severe Tropical Storm Winnie (Goring)

Severe Tropical Storm Alice

Typhoon Betty (Huling)

Typhoon Cora (Ibiang)

Typhoon Doris

Tropical Depression 12W

Tropical Depression Luming

Tropical Depression 11W

Tropical Depression 13W (Miling)

Typhoon Elsie (Narsing)

On September 19, Tropical Depression 14W formed over the open Western Pacific. It tracked almost due westward, becoming a tropical storm on the 20th and a typhoon on the 21st. Elsie continued to intensify, and reached a peak of 175 mph winds on the 24th. After peaking, the typhoon steadily weakened as it moved westward. On the 26th 105 mph Typhoon Elsie hit northern

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...

, and a day later hit eastern China. After drifting northward, Elsie dissipated over China on September 28. The typhoon killed 102 people, with 24 missing and 227 injured from the system.

Typhoon Flossie (Openg)

Just days after Elsie hit Taiwan, Tropical Storm Flossie approached Taiwan. From October 1 to the 5th, it drifted northward offshore of the island. It accelerated to the northeast, and became extratropical on the 10th east of Japan. Flossie's heavy rains left 75 people dead.

Typhoon Grace

Tropical Depression 17W

Typhoon Helen

Typhoon Ida

Typhoon June (Pining)

Typhoon Kathy (Rubing)

Severe Tropical Storm Lorna (Saling)

Tropical Storm Marie

Storm names

International

Western North Pacific tropical cyclones were named by the

. The first storm of 1969 was named Phyllis and the final one was named Marie.

Philippines

The

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 6 of which are published each year before the season starts. Names not retired from this list will be used again in the 1973 season. This is the same list used for the 1965 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 .

Season effects

This table will list all the storms that developed in the northwestern Pacific Ocean west of the

and north of the equator during 1969. It will include their intensity, duration, name, areas affected, deaths, missing persons (in parentheses), and damage totals. Classification and intensity values will be based on estimations conducted by the JMA, however due to lack of information around this time sustained winds were recorded by the JTWC. All damage figures will be in 1969 USD. Damages and deaths from a storm will include when the storm was a precursor wave or an extratropical low. , - , Phyllis , , , , bgcolor=#, , , bgcolor=#, , , bgcolor=#, , ,

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Caroline Islands The Caroline Islands (or the Carolines) are a widely scattered archipelago of tiny islands in the western Pacific Ocean, to the north of New Guinea. Politically, they are divided between the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) in the centra ...

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South China South China () is a geographical and cultural region that covers the southernmost part of China. Its precise meaning varies with context. A notable feature of South China in comparison to the rest of China is that most of its citizens are not n ...

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East China East China () is a geographical and a loosely defined cultural region that covers the eastern coastal area of China. A concept abolished in 1978, for economical purposes the region was defined from 1949 to 1961 by the Chinese Central Governme ...

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Palau Palau,, officially the Republic of Palau and historically ''Belau'', ''Palaos'' or ''Pelew'', is an island country and microstate in the western Pacific. The nation has approximately 340 islands and connects the western chain of the Caro ...

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References

External links

Japan Meteorological Agency

Joint Typhoon Warning Center
.
China Meteorological Agency

National Weather Service Guam

Macau Meteorological Geophysical Services

Korea Meteorological Agency

Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration

Digital Typhoon - Typhoon Images and Information

Typhoon2000 Philippine typhoon website
{{TC Decades, Year=1960, basin=Pacific, type=typhoon

Systems

Typhoon Phyllis

Tropical Storm Rita

Typhoon Susan (Atring)

Tropical Depression Bining

Typhoon Tess (Kuring)

Typhoon Viola (Elang)

Tropical Depression Daling

Severe Tropical Storm Winnie (Goring)

Severe Tropical Storm Alice

Typhoon Betty (Huling)

Typhoon Cora (Ibiang)

Typhoon Doris

Tropical Depression 12W

Tropical Depression Luming

Tropical Depression 11W

Tropical Depression 13W (Miling)

Typhoon Elsie (Narsing)

Typhoon Flossie (Openg)

Typhoon Grace

Tropical Depression 17W

Typhoon Helen

Typhoon Ida

Typhoon June (Pining)

Typhoon Kathy (Rubing)

Severe Tropical Storm Lorna (Saling)

Tropical Storm Marie

Storm names

International

Philippines

Season effects

See also

References

External links