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This is a list of all Pacific typhoons that have had their names retired from the international list of tropical cyclone names used in the Western Pacific Ocean. Since tropical cyclones started to be named in the basin after World War II a total of 77 typhoon names have been retired. Those typhoons that have their names retired tend to be ...
[48] [49] Four sets of tropical cyclone names are rotated annually with typhoon names stricken from the list should they do more than 1 billion pesos worth of damage to the Philippines and/or cause 300 or more deaths. [50] [51] Should the list of names for a given year prove insufficient, names are taken from an auxiliary list. [50]
Typhoon Cobra, also known as the Typhoon of 1944 or Halsey's Typhoon (named after Admiral William Halsey Jr.), was the United States Navy designation for a powerful tropical cyclone that struck the United States Pacific Fleet in December 1944, during World War II. The storm sank three destroyers, killed 790 sailors, damaged 9 other warships ...
Typhoon Ida, known in Japan as Makurazaki Typhoon (枕崎台風), [1] [2] was a powerful and very deadly typhoon that formed over the western Pacific Ocean and struck Japan in September 1945, shortly after the Japanese surrender in World War II, causing over 2,000 deaths.
A list of 140 names was subsequently drawn up and submitted to the Typhoon Committee's 32nd session, who after a lengthy discussion approved the list and decided to implement it on January 1, 2000. [ 47 ] [ 48 ] [ 49 ] It was also decided that the Japan Meteorological Agency would name the systems rather than the Joint Typhoon Warning Center .
The 1945 Pacific typhoon season was the first official season to be included in the West Pacific typhoon database. It was also the first season to name storms. It has no official bounds; it ran year-round in 1945, but most tropical cyclones tend to form in the northwestern Pacific Ocean between June and December.
The Hawker Typhoon is a British single-seat fighter-bomber, produced by Hawker Aircraft.It was intended to be a medium-high altitude interceptor, as a replacement for the Hawker Hurricane, but several design problems were encountered and it never completely satisfied this requirement.
The 1940 Pacific typhoon season marked an interruption in meteorological records in both the Philippines and Hong Kong due to the start of World War II. There were 43 reported tropical cyclones , including 27 that attained typhoon status.