The name Amang, a Filipino male nickname, has been used for six

tropical cyclone A tropical cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm system with a low-pressure area, a closed low-level atmospheric circulation, strong winds, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain and squalls. Depending on its locat ...

s in the

Philippine Area of Responsibility The Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) is an area in the Northwestern Pacific where PAGASA, the Philippines' national meteorological agency, monitors weather occurrences. Significant weather disturbances, specifically typhoons that enter o ...

in the Western Pacific, all named by

PAGASA The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (, abbreviated as PAGASA , which means "hope" as in the Tagalog language, Tagalog word ''pag-asa'') is the National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHS ...

: * Typhoon Kujira (2003) (T0302, 02W, Amang) – caused minimal effects in the Philippines * Typhoon Yutu (2007) (T0702, 02W, Amang) – an early-season super typhoon * Tropical Depression Amang (2011) (02W, Amang) – did not affect the Philippines but impacted the

Mariana Islands The Mariana Islands ( ; ), also simply the Marianas, are a crescent-shaped archipelago comprising the summits of fifteen longitudinally oriented, mostly dormant volcanic mountains in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, between the 12th and 21st pa ...

* Tropical Storm Mekkhala (2015) (T1501, 01W, Amang) – an early-season tropical storm *

Tropical Depression Amang (2019) Tropical Depression Amang was a weak but long-lived tropical cyclone which triggered flash floods and landslides over the southeastern Philippines in January 2019. Forming as a tropical depression northeast of the Gilbert Islands on January 4, t ...

(01W, Amang) – killed 10 people in the Philippines due to landslides and flash floods * Tropical Depression Amang (2023) – made two landfalls in the Philippines

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