1992 Pacific typhoon season
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One person was killed and eight others were reported missing when the storm moved through the Philippines. Extensive damage took place in China with losses amounting to $235 million.

Typhoon Gary (Edeng)

At least 48 people were killed by Typhoon Gary. Extensive damage took place in China with losses reaching $940 million.

Typhoon Irving

Three people were killed and damage reached 64 million yen ($835,000).

Typhoon Janis

In Japan, Typhoon Janis killed two people and injured 41 others. Total losses from the storm reached 5.8 billion yen ($45.6 million).

Super Typhoon Kent

Before reaching Japan, large waves produced by the storm swept five people out to sea.

Tropical Storm Mark

One person was killed and another reported missing. Losses reached $10.4 million.

Super Typhoon Omar (Lusing)

Typhoon Omar was a destructive storm to Guam, causing over a foot of rain there, amounting to $702 million in damage (2008 USD) but no deaths. In Taiwan, the storm caused 2 deaths and heavy rainfall. The name Omar was retired after this season.

Tropical Storm Polly (Isang)

Developing to Omar's west, Polly began its life on August 23 and reached tropical storm strength on the 26th. As a developing monsoon depression, it had a large outflow. Polly retained that throughout its lifetime, inhibiting intensification past 60 mi/h winds. On the 30th, the storm hit southeastern Taiwan, and on the 31st it hit China.

Torrential rains produced by Tropical Storm Polly triggered devastating floods that killed 202 people and injured hundreds more. More than 5 million people were left homeless across Fujian and Zhejiang Provinces in China. Total losses from the storm were roughly $450 million.

Typhoon Ted (Maring)

Tropical Storm Ted, having developed on September 14, stalled off northern Luzon
Luzon
Luzon is the largest island in the Philippines. It is located in the northernmost region of the archipelago, and is also the name for one of the three primary island groups in the country centered on the Island of Luzon...

 on the 20th. It turned northward, and hit southern Taiwan on the 22nd as a minimal typhoon. Ted weakened to a tropical storm over the island, and hit eastern China on the 23rd. It turned to the northeast, hit South Korea, and became extratropical on the 24th.

At least 61 people were killed by Typhoon Ted and 51 others were reported missing. Losses from the storm reached $360 million in China.

Typhoon Angela

At least 49 people were killed by Typhoon Angela, mostly in Vietnam, while 14 others were reported missing.

Tropical Depression 29W

On October 30, a tropical disturbance began to form west of the International Date Line
International Date Line
The International Date Line is a generally north-south imaginary line on the surface of the Earth, passing through the middle of the Pacific Ocean, that designates the place where each calendar day begins...

. The JTWC then issued a Tropical Cyclone Formation Alert
Tropical Cyclone Formation Alert
A Tropical Cyclone Formation Alert is a bulletin released by the U.S. Navy-operated Joint Typhoon Warning Center in Honolulu, Hawaii or the Naval Maritime Forecast Center in Norfolk, Virginia, warning of the possibility of a tropical cyclone forming from a tropical disturbance that has been...

 late the next day as the system moved westward and started warnings on Tropical Depression 29W on November 1. However, intensification was severely inhibited by outflow from nearby Typhoon Dan, and the depression failed to develop. It passed within 30 nm
Nautical mile
The nautical mile is a unit of length that is about one minute of arc of latitude along any meridian, but is approximately one minute of arc of longitude only at the equator...

 (55 km) of Wake Island
Wake Island
Wake Island is a coral atoll having a coastline of in the North Pacific Ocean, located about two-thirds of the way from Honolulu west to Guam east. It is an unorganized, unincorporated territory of the United States, administered by the Office of Insular Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior...

, causing a minor pressure dip and gusts to 32 kt (60 km/h). No damage was reported, due to the relative weakness of 29W as compared to Dan, which ravaged the island 3 days earlier. The depression dissipated on November 2 over open ocean.

Tropical Storm Forrest

On November 8 a tropical depression formed from the monsoon trough east of the Philippines
Philippines
The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...

. It crossed the islands, and strengthened to a tropical storm in the South China Sea on the 12th. Forrest continued westward until hitting and crossing the Malay Peninsula
Malay Peninsula
The Malay Peninsula or Thai-Malay Peninsula is a peninsula in Southeast Asia. The land mass runs approximately north-south and, at its terminus, is the southern-most point of the Asian mainland...

 on the 15th. It reached a peak of 145 mi/h winds in the Bay of Bengal before hitting Myanmar
Myanmar
Burma , officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar , is a country in Southeast Asia. Burma is bordered by China on the northeast, Laos on the east, Thailand on the southeast, Bangladesh on the west, India on the northwest, the Bay of Bengal to the southwest, and the Andaman Sea on the south....

 on the 21st. Its history in the Indian Ocean can be found in its seasonal article.

At least two people were killed by Tropical Storm Forrest and 31 others were reported missing after a ship capsized.

Super Typhoon Gay

Typhoon Gay was the strongest typhoon of the season (indeed there appears to be some debate as to whether it surpassed the record intensity of Super Typhoon Tip), Gay reached peak winds of 185 mi/h winds over the open Western Pacific in mid-November, and went on to threaten the Marina islands at peak strength, but weakened greatly due to interaction with Typhoon Hunt thus causing a surprisingly low death toll over the Marianas Islands with moderate damage.

Typhoon Hunt

The last storm of the year formed on November 16 and dissipated on November 21.

Storm names

Tropical cyclones in the Western North Pacific were named by the JTWC. The first storm of 1992 was named Axel and the final one was named Hunt. The name Omar was retired after this season and replaced by Oscar.

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  • Angela 24W
  • Brian 25W
  • Colleen 26W
  • Dan 27W
  • Elsie 28W
  • Forrest 30W
  • Gay 31W
  • Hunt 32W

One person was killed and eight others were reported missing when the storm moved through the Philippines. Extensive damage took place in China with losses amounting to $235 million.

Typhoon Gary (Edeng)

At least 48 people were killed by Typhoon Gary. Extensive damage took place in China with losses reaching $940 million.

Typhoon Irving

Three people were killed and damage reached 64 million yen ($835,000).

Typhoon Janis

In Japan, Typhoon Janis killed two people and injured 41 others. Total losses from the storm reached 5.8 billion yen ($45.6 million).

Super Typhoon Kent

Before reaching Japan, large waves produced by the storm swept five people out to sea.

Tropical Storm Mark

One person was killed and another reported missing. Losses reached $10.4 million.

Super Typhoon Omar (Lusing)

Typhoon Omar was a destructive storm to Guam, causing over a foot of rain there, amounting to $702 million in damage (2008 USD) but no deaths. In Taiwan, the storm caused 2 deaths and heavy rainfall. The name Omar was retired after this season.

Tropical Storm Polly (Isang)

Developing to Omar's west, Polly began its life on August 23 and reached tropical storm strength on the 26th. As a developing monsoon depression, it had a large outflow. Polly retained that throughout its lifetime, inhibiting intensification past 60 mi/h winds. On the 30th, the storm hit southeastern Taiwan, and on the 31st it hit China.

Torrential rains produced by Tropical Storm Polly triggered devastating floods that killed 202 people and injured hundreds more. More than 5 million people were left homeless across Fujian and Zhejiang Provinces in China. Total losses from the storm were roughly $450 million.

Typhoon Ted (Maring)

Tropical Storm Ted, having developed on September 14, stalled off northern Luzon
Luzon
Luzon is the largest island in the Philippines. It is located in the northernmost region of the archipelago, and is also the name for one of the three primary island groups in the country centered on the Island of Luzon...

 on the 20th. It turned northward, and hit southern Taiwan on the 22nd as a minimal typhoon. Ted weakened to a tropical storm over the island, and hit eastern China on the 23rd. It turned to the northeast, hit South Korea, and became extratropical on the 24th.

At least 61 people were killed by Typhoon Ted and 51 others were reported missing. Losses from the storm reached $360 million in China.

Typhoon Angela

At least 49 people were killed by Typhoon Angela, mostly in Vietnam, while 14 others were reported missing.

Tropical Depression 29W

On October 30, a tropical disturbance began to form west of the International Date Line
International Date Line
The International Date Line is a generally north-south imaginary line on the surface of the Earth, passing through the middle of the Pacific Ocean, that designates the place where each calendar day begins...

. The JTWC then issued a Tropical Cyclone Formation Alert
Tropical Cyclone Formation Alert
A Tropical Cyclone Formation Alert is a bulletin released by the U.S. Navy-operated Joint Typhoon Warning Center in Honolulu, Hawaii or the Naval Maritime Forecast Center in Norfolk, Virginia, warning of the possibility of a tropical cyclone forming from a tropical disturbance that has been...

 late the next day as the system moved westward and started warnings on Tropical Depression 29W on November 1. However, intensification was severely inhibited by outflow from nearby Typhoon Dan, and the depression failed to develop. It passed within 30 nm
Nautical mile
The nautical mile is a unit of length that is about one minute of arc of latitude along any meridian, but is approximately one minute of arc of longitude only at the equator...

 (55 km) of Wake Island
Wake Island
Wake Island is a coral atoll having a coastline of in the North Pacific Ocean, located about two-thirds of the way from Honolulu west to Guam east. It is an unorganized, unincorporated territory of the United States, administered by the Office of Insular Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior...

, causing a minor pressure dip and gusts to 32 kt (60 km/h). No damage was reported, due to the relative weakness of 29W as compared to Dan, which ravaged the island 3 days earlier. The depression dissipated on November 2 over open ocean.

Tropical Storm Forrest

On November 8 a tropical depression formed from the monsoon trough east of the Philippines
Philippines
The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...

. It crossed the islands, and strengthened to a tropical storm in the South China Sea on the 12th. Forrest continued westward until hitting and crossing the Malay Peninsula
Malay Peninsula
The Malay Peninsula or Thai-Malay Peninsula is a peninsula in Southeast Asia. The land mass runs approximately north-south and, at its terminus, is the southern-most point of the Asian mainland...

 on the 15th. It reached a peak of 145 mi/h winds in the Bay of Bengal before hitting Myanmar
Myanmar
Burma , officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar , is a country in Southeast Asia. Burma is bordered by China on the northeast, Laos on the east, Thailand on the southeast, Bangladesh on the west, India on the northwest, the Bay of Bengal to the southwest, and the Andaman Sea on the south....

 on the 21st. Its history in the Indian Ocean can be found in its seasonal article.

At least two people were killed by Tropical Storm Forrest and 31 others were reported missing after a ship capsized.

Super Typhoon Gay

Typhoon Gay was the strongest typhoon of the season (indeed there appears to be some debate as to whether it surpassed the record intensity of Super Typhoon Tip), Gay reached peak winds of 185 mi/h winds over the open Western Pacific in mid-November, and went on to threaten the Marina islands at peak strength, but weakened greatly due to interaction with Typhoon Hunt thus causing a surprisingly low death toll over the Marianas Islands with moderate damage.

Typhoon Hunt

The last storm of the year formed on November 16 and dissipated on November 21.

Storm names

Tropical cyclones in the Western North Pacific were named by the JTWC. The first storm of 1992 was named Axel and the final one was named Hunt. The name Omar was retired after this season and replaced by Oscar.

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  • Angela 24W
  • Brian 25W
  • Colleen 26W
  • Dan 27W
  • Elsie 28W
  • Forrest 30W
  • Gay 31W
  • Hunt 32W

One person was killed and eight others were reported missing when the storm moved through the Philippines. Extensive damage took place in China with losses amounting to $235 million.

Typhoon Gary (Edeng)

At least 48 people were killed by Typhoon Gary. Extensive damage took place in China with losses reaching $940 million.

Typhoon Irving

Three people were killed and damage reached 64 million yen ($835,000).

Typhoon Janis

In Japan, Typhoon Janis killed two people and injured 41 others. Total losses from the storm reached 5.8 billion yen ($45.6 million).

Super Typhoon Kent

Before reaching Japan, large waves produced by the storm swept five people out to sea.

Tropical Storm Mark

One person was killed and another reported missing. Losses reached $10.4 million.

Super Typhoon Omar (Lusing)

Typhoon Omar was a destructive storm to Guam, causing over a foot of rain there, amounting to $702 million in damage (2008 USD) but no deaths. In Taiwan, the storm caused 2 deaths and heavy rainfall. The name Omar was retired after this season.

Tropical Storm Polly (Isang)

Developing to Omar's west, Polly began its life on August 23 and reached tropical storm strength on the 26th. As a developing monsoon depression, it had a large outflow. Polly retained that throughout its lifetime, inhibiting intensification past 60 mi/h winds. On the 30th, the storm hit southeastern Taiwan, and on the 31st it hit China.

Torrential rains produced by Tropical Storm Polly triggered devastating floods that killed 202 people and injured hundreds more. More than 5 million people were left homeless across Fujian and Zhejiang Provinces in China. Total losses from the storm were roughly $450 million.

Typhoon Ted (Maring)

Tropical Storm Ted, having developed on September 14, stalled off northern Luzon
Luzon
Luzon is the largest island in the Philippines. It is located in the northernmost region of the archipelago, and is also the name for one of the three primary island groups in the country centered on the Island of Luzon...

 on the 20th. It turned northward, and hit southern Taiwan on the 22nd as a minimal typhoon. Ted weakened to a tropical storm over the island, and hit eastern China on the 23rd. It turned to the northeast, hit South Korea, and became extratropical on the 24th.

At least 61 people were killed by Typhoon Ted and 51 others were reported missing. Losses from the storm reached $360 million in China.

Typhoon Angela

At least 49 people were killed by Typhoon Angela, mostly in Vietnam, while 14 others were reported missing.

Tropical Depression 29W

On October 30, a tropical disturbance began to form west of the International Date Line
International Date Line
The International Date Line is a generally north-south imaginary line on the surface of the Earth, passing through the middle of the Pacific Ocean, that designates the place where each calendar day begins...

. The JTWC then issued a Tropical Cyclone Formation Alert
Tropical Cyclone Formation Alert
A Tropical Cyclone Formation Alert is a bulletin released by the U.S. Navy-operated Joint Typhoon Warning Center in Honolulu, Hawaii or the Naval Maritime Forecast Center in Norfolk, Virginia, warning of the possibility of a tropical cyclone forming from a tropical disturbance that has been...

 late the next day as the system moved westward and started warnings on Tropical Depression 29W on November 1. However, intensification was severely inhibited by outflow from nearby Typhoon Dan, and the depression failed to develop. It passed within 30 nm
Nautical mile
The nautical mile is a unit of length that is about one minute of arc of latitude along any meridian, but is approximately one minute of arc of longitude only at the equator...

 (55 km) of Wake Island
Wake Island
Wake Island is a coral atoll having a coastline of in the North Pacific Ocean, located about two-thirds of the way from Honolulu west to Guam east. It is an unorganized, unincorporated territory of the United States, administered by the Office of Insular Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior...

, causing a minor pressure dip and gusts to 32 kt (60 km/h). No damage was reported, due to the relative weakness of 29W as compared to Dan, which ravaged the island 3 days earlier. The depression dissipated on November 2 over open ocean.

Tropical Storm Forrest

On November 8 a tropical depression formed from the monsoon trough east of the Philippines
Philippines
The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...

. It crossed the islands, and strengthened to a tropical storm in the South China Sea on the 12th. Forrest continued westward until hitting and crossing the Malay Peninsula
Malay Peninsula
The Malay Peninsula or Thai-Malay Peninsula is a peninsula in Southeast Asia. The land mass runs approximately north-south and, at its terminus, is the southern-most point of the Asian mainland...

 on the 15th. It reached a peak of 145 mi/h winds in the Bay of Bengal before hitting Myanmar
Myanmar
Burma , officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar , is a country in Southeast Asia. Burma is bordered by China on the northeast, Laos on the east, Thailand on the southeast, Bangladesh on the west, India on the northwest, the Bay of Bengal to the southwest, and the Andaman Sea on the south....

 on the 21st. Its history in the Indian Ocean can be found in its seasonal article.

At least two people were killed by Tropical Storm Forrest and 31 others were reported missing after a ship capsized.

Super Typhoon Gay

Typhoon Gay was the strongest typhoon of the season (indeed there appears to be some debate as to whether it surpassed the record intensity of Super Typhoon Tip), Gay reached peak winds of 185 mi/h winds over the open Western Pacific in mid-November, and went on to threaten the Marina islands at peak strength, but weakened greatly due to interaction with Typhoon Hunt thus causing a surprisingly low death toll over the Marianas Islands with moderate damage.

Typhoon Hunt

The last storm of the year formed on November 16 and dissipated on November 21.

Storm names

Tropical cyclones in the Western North Pacific were named by the JTWC. The first storm of 1992 was named Axel and the final one was named Hunt. The name Omar was retired after this season and replaced by Oscar.

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  • Angela 24W
  • Brian 25W
  • Colleen 26W
  • Dan 27W
  • Elsie 28W
  • Forrest 30W
  • Gay 31W
  • Hunt 32W
  • Irma
  • Jack
  • Koryn
  • Lewis
  • Marian
  • Nathan
  • Ofelia
  • Percy
  • Robyn
  • Steve
  • Tasha
  • Vernon
  • Winona
  • Yancy
  • Zola

|
  • Abe
  • Becky
  • Cecil
  • Dot
  • Ed
  • Flo
  • Gene
  • Hattie
  • Ira
  • Jeana
  • Kyle
  • Lola
  • Manny
  • Nell
  • Owen
  • Page
  • Russ
  • Sharon
  • Tim
  • Vanessa
  • Walt
  • Yunya
  • Zeke

|
  • Amy
  • Brendan
  • Caitlin
  • Doug
  • Ellie
  • Fred
  • Gladys
  • Harry
  • Ivy
  • Joel
  • Kinna
  • Luke
  • Melissa
  • Nat
  • Orchid
  • Pat
  • Ruth
  • Seth
  • Teresa
  • Verne
  • Wilda
  • Yuri
  • Zelda

|
  • Axel 01W
  • Bobbie 02W
  • Chuck 03W
  • Deanna 04W
  • Eli 05W
  • Faye 06W
  • Gary 07W
  • Helen 08W
  • Irving 09W
  • Janis 10W
  • Kent 11W
  • Lois 12W
  • Mark 13W
  • Nina 14W
  • Omar
    Typhoon Omar
    Super Typhoon Omar was the 15th tropical depression, the 15th named storm, and the 9th typhoon of the 1992 Pacific typhoon season...

     15W
  • Polly 16W
  • Ryan 17W
  • Sibyl 18W
  • Ted 19W
  • Val 20W
  • Ward 21W
  • Yvette 23W
  • Zack 22W

|}

One storm which formed in the Central Pacific basin, Hurricane Ekeka
Hurricane Ekeka (1992)
Hurricane Ekeka was an unusual Pacific tropical cyclone that attained major hurricane status during the month of February. The first storm of the 1992 Pacific hurricane season, Ekeka developed on January 28 well to the south of Hawaii...

 (01C), crossed into the Western Pacific basin as a tropical storm, keeping its original name and "C" suffix.

Philippines
Philippines
The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...

The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration
Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration
The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration is a Philippine national institution dedicated to provide flood and typhoon warnings, public weather forecasts and advisories, meteorological, astronomical, climatological, and other specialized information and...

 (PAGASA) used its own naming scheme for tropical cyclones within its area of responsibility. Lists were recycled every four years. This was the list set for 1992. This is the same list used for the 1988 season
1988 Pacific typhoon season
The 1988 Pacific typhoon season has no official bounds; it ran year-round in 1988, but most tropical cyclones tend to form in the northwestern Pacific Ocean between May and November. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the northwestern...

, except for Ulpiang and Yerling which replaced Unsang and Yonang respectively.

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  • Asiang
  • Biring
  • Konsing 05W
  • Ditang
  • Edeng

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  • Gloring
  • Huaning
  • Isang
  • Lusing
    Typhoon Omar
    Super Typhoon Omar was the 15th tropical depression, the 15th named storm, and the 9th typhoon of the 1992 Pacific typhoon season...

     15W
  • Maring

|
  • Ningning
  • Osang
  • Paring
  • Reming (unused)
  • Seniang (unused)

|
  • Toyang (unused)
  • Ulpiang (unused)
  • Welpring (unused)
  • Yerling (unused)
  • Aring (unused)

|
  • Basiang (unused)
  • Kayang (unused)
  • Dorang (unused)
  • Enang (unused)
  • Grasing (unused)

|}

See also

  • 1992 Pacific hurricane season
    1992 Pacific hurricane season
    The 1992 Pacific hurricane season was the most active Pacific hurricane season on record. The most notable storm was Hurricane Iniki, which caused billions of dollars of damage to the Hawaiian Islands. Hurricanes Lester, Virgil, Winifred, and Orlene also made landfall and killed several people, but...

  • 1992 Atlantic hurricane season
    1992 Atlantic hurricane season
    The 1992 Atlantic hurricane season had one of the latest dates on record for the first named storm. The season officially began on June 1, 1992, and lasted until November 30, 1992. It was the least active hurricane season in nine years due to a strong El Niño...

  • 1992 North Indian cyclone season
  • 1992-93 Southern Hemisphere tropical cyclone season

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