2019 Pacific typhoon season

2019 Pacific typhoon season
2019 Pacific typhoon season
	Season summary map
Seasonal boundaries
First system formed	December 31, 2018
Last system dissipated	December 29, 2019
Strongest storm
Name	Halong
• Maximum winds	215 km/h (130 mph); (10-minute sustained)
• Lowest pressure	905 hPa (mbar)
Seasonal statistics
Total depressions	50
Total storms	29
Typhoons	17
Super typhoons	5 (unofficial)
Total fatalities	453 total
Total damage	$38.96 billion (2019 USD); (Costliest Pacific typhoon season on record)
Related articles
	2019 Atlantic hurricane season; 2019 Pacific hurricane season; 2019 North Indian Ocean cyclone season;
	Pacific typhoon seasons; 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021

The 2019 Pacific typhoon season was the costliest Pacific typhoon season on record, just ahead of the previous year and 2023. The season featured fairly above-average tropical cyclone activity for the second consecutive year, producing 29 named storms, 17 typhoons, and five super typhoons. The season's first named storm, Pabuk, reached tropical storm status on January 1, becoming the earliest-forming tropical storm of the western Pacific Ocean on record, breaking the previous record that was held by Typhoon Alice in 1979. The season's first typhoon, Wutip, reached typhoon status on February 20. Wutip further intensified into a super typhoon on February 23, becoming the strongest February typhoon on record,^[1] and the strongest tropical cyclone recorded in February in the Northern Hemisphere. The season's last named storm, Phanfone, dissipated on December 29 after it made landfall in the Philippines.

The scope of this article is limited to the Pacific Ocean to the north of the equator between 100°E and 180th meridian. Within the northwestern Pacific Ocean, two separate agencies assign names to tropical cyclones which can often result in a cyclone having two names. The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) will name a tropical cyclone should it be judged to have 10-minute sustained wind speeds of at least 65 km/h (40 mph) anywhere in the basin, while the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) assigns names to tropical cyclones which move into or form as a tropical depression in their area of responsibility located between 135°E–115°E and between 5°N–25°N regardless of whether or not a tropical cyclone has already been given a name by the JMA. Tropical depressions that are monitored by the United States' Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) are given a number with a "W" suffix.

^ Kristina Pydynowski; Robert Richards (February 23, 2019). "Wutip becomes strongest super typhoon in February as it lashes Guam with rain, wind". Accuweather. Archived from the original on February 22, 2019. Retrieved February 23, 2019.

[strongest_February_typhoon-1] Kristina Pydynowski; Robert Richards (February 23, 2019). "Wutip becomes strongest super typhoon in February as it lashes Guam with rain, wind". Accuweather. Archived from the original on February 22, 2019. Retrieved February 23, 2019.

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