1982 Pacific typhoon season
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The 1982 Pacific typhoon season has no official bounds; it ran year-round in 1982, 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 1982 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.
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[edit] Storms
28 tropical depressions formed this year in the Western Pacific, of which 26 became tropical storms. 19 storms reached typhoon intensity, of which 2 reached super typhoon strength.
[edit] Super Typhoon Bess
- Main article: Typhoon Bess (1982)
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The monsoon trough spawned a tropical depression south of Guam on July 22. It headed northwestward, becoming a tropical storm on the 23rd and a typhoon on the 24th. A shortwave trough forced Bess southwestward where it remained a 105 mph typhoon. It looped and stalled until another shortwave trough brought the typhoon to the northwest. Bess rapidly intensified to a 160 mph super typhoon, and weakened steadily as it turned more northward. Bess crossed the Japanese coast on the 1st as a minimal typhoon, and was absorbed by a low pressure center in the Sea of Japan on the 2nd. Bess caused torrential mudslides in Japan, causing extensive damage and 59 casualties. The name Bess was retired after this season.
[edit] Typhoon Cecil
A low-level circulation north of Chuuk organized into a tropical depression on August 4. After moving quickly westward, the depression stalled on the 5th and 6th, allowing it to strength into a tropical storm on the 6th and a typhoon on the 7th. The typhoon turned northward, rapidly intensifying to a 145 mph typhoon on the 8th while east of Taiwan. Cooler water temperatures and vertical shear weakened Cecil as it continued northward, and as a 40 mph tropical storm it hit North Korea on the 14th. Though heavily weakened, it brought a great deal of precipitation, causing severe flooding killing 35 (with 28 missing) and millions in damage.
[edit] Typhoon Judy
When 80 mph Typhoon Judy hit southeastern Japan on September 12, its torrential rains left 25 dead and causing moderate damage.
[edit] Typhoon Nancy
135 mph Typhoon Nancy, which developed on October 10, hit eastern Luzon on the 14th. Its winds were reduced to tropical storm strength, but Nancy re-intensified to a 90 mph typhoon over the South China Sea. It hit northern Vietnam on the 18th, and dissipated shortly thereafter. The heavy rains accompanied by the system caused 181 fatalities and over $46 million in damage (1982 USD).
[edit] Typhoon Pamela
On November 21, an area of convection west of the International Date Line organized into Tropical Depression 27W. It looped, then tracked to the west where it strengthened into Tropical Storm Pamela on the 24th. It continued west-northwestward, reaching typhoon intensity on the 26th. Pamela reached a peak of 115 mph winds as it crossed the Marshall Islands, and as it continued westward, residents of Guam were afraid of the devastating Super Typhoon Pamela of 1976. It approached the island as a weakened tropical storm on December 1, but only brought minor winds and damage. Pamela looped to the southwest on the 4th, strengthened to a typhoon but weakened back to a tropical storm. It restrengthened to a typhoon just before hitting the Philippines on the 7th. The storm dissipated on the 9th, after causing moderate to extensive damage to the islands of the West Pacific.
Its unusual path and the time of year was very nearly repeated by Typhoon Manny in the 1993 Pacific typhoon season. The name Pamela was retired after the season, possibly in respect of the 1976 storm.
[edit] 1982 storm names
Western North Pacific tropical cyclones were named by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center. The first storm of 1982 was named Mamie and the final one was named Roger. The names Bess and Pamela were retired after this season.
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