The 1968 Pacific typhoon season has no official bounds; it ran year-round in 1968, 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. Storms that form east of the date line and north of the equator are called hurricanes; see 1968 Pacific hurricane season. Tropical Storms formed in the entire west pacific basin were assigned a name by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center. 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 Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration or PAGASA. This can often result in the same storm having two names.

Storms

31 tropical depressions formed this year in the Western Pacific, of which 27 became tropical storms. 20 storms reached typhoon intensity, of which 4 reached super typhoon strength. No storms this season caused significant damage or deaths.

Typhoon Jean (Asiang)

Typhoon Kim (Biring)

Typhoon Lucy (Konsing)

Typhoon Mary

Tropical Storm Nadine (Didang)

Tropical Storm Olive (Edeng)

Tropical Storm Polly

Tropical Storm Polly dropped heavy rains on the southern islands of Japan. 112 people were killed and 21 were missing from the floods and landslides caused by Polly's heavy rains.^[1]

Tropical Storm Rose (Gloring)

Typhoon Shirley (Huaning)

Tropical Storm Trix (Iniang)

Tropical Storm Trix struck the southern islands of Ky sh and Shikoku. Heavy flooding killed 25 people and left 2 missing.^[1]

Tropical Storm Virginia

Typhoon Wendy (Lusing)

Tropical Storm Wendy, which formed on August 28 in the open Western Pacific, quickly intensified to a peak of 160 mph winds on the 31st. It steadily weakened as it moved westward, and passed by southern Taiwan on September 5 as a minimal typhoon. Wendy continued to weaken, and after crossing the South China Sea, Wendy dissipated over northern Vietnam on the 9th.

Typhoon Agnes

Typhoon Bess

Typhoon Carmen

Typhoon Della (Maring)

Typhoon Della struck Ky sh Island in southern Japan with winds of 100 mph. Della killed 11 throughout southern Japan.^[1]

Typhoon Elaine (Nitang)

Super Typhoon Elaine, after peaking at 175 mph winds, weakened to hit extreme northern Luzon on September 28 as a 130 mph typhoon. It continued to the northwest, and after hitting southeastern China as a minimal tropical storm Elaine dissipated on October 1.

Typhoon Faye

Typhoon Gloria (Osang)

Tropical Storm Hester

Typhoon Irma

Typhoon Judy (Paring)

Typhoon Kit

Typhoon Lola

Typhoon Mamie (Reming)

Typhoon Nina (Seniang)

Typhoon Ora (Toyang)

Storm names

Western North Pacific tropical cyclones were named by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center. The first storm of 1968 was named Jean and the final one was named Ora.

References

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Digital Typhoon: Disaster Information

External links

• Japan Meteorological Agency
• Joint Typhoon Warning Center.
• China Meteorological Agency
• National Weather Service Guam
• Hong Kong Observatory
• Macau Meteorological Geophysical Services
• Korea Meteorological Agency
• Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration
• Taiwan Central Weather Bureau
• Digital Typhoon - Typhoon Images and Information
• Typhoon2000 Philippine typhoon website