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ATCF remains the main piece of forecasting software used for the United States Government, including the JTWC, NHC, and Central Pacific Hurricane Center. Other tropical cyclone centers in Australia and Canada developed similar software in the 1990s. The data files with ATCF lie within three decks, known as the a-, b-, and f-decks.
At the same time, the JTWC classified the storm as a typhoon. [3] Upon being upgraded the typhoon featured a well-developed outflow and prominent banding features consolidating around the system. [1] Typhoon Kirogi approaching Japan on July 7. Not long after attaining typhoon intensity, Kirogi began to undergo rapid intensification. [1]
The United States' Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) unofficially classifies typhoons with wind speeds of at least 130 knots (150 mph; 240 km/h)—the equivalent of a strong Category 4 storm on the Saffir–Simpson scale—as super typhoons. [6] Tropical cyclogenesis in the West Pacific commences over the summer monsoon trough.
Furthermore, the JMA divides the typhoon category into three sub-categories for domestic purposes – a strong typhoon, very strong typhoon and violent typhoon. [3] This article covers a list of systems developing in the Northwest Pacific basin that were classified by the category of a tropical depression by the JMA, JTWC and PAGASA.
Typhoon Prapiroon, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Lusing, was the costliest tropical cyclone to strike the Korean Peninsula and the tenth costliest in the West Pacific on record, as of August 2023. Prapiroon developed as a tropical depression on August 24, 2000
After rapid intensification, Typhoon Mawar has become the most intense storm of 2023, according to the Joint Typhoon Warning Centre (JTWC). Mawar’s peak winds have surged to 175 mph, accompanied ...
Tropical Storm Koguma was a weak tropical cyclone that made landfall in Vietnam, causing minor damage.The fourth named storm of the 2021 Pacific typhoon season, the system was first noted as an area of persistent convection on the South China Sea on June 10, with the JTWC assessing the system in its first advisory as a monsoon depression.
The Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) is a joint United States Navy – United States Air Force command in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.The JTWC is responsible for the issuing of tropical cyclone warnings in the North-West Pacific Ocean, South Pacific Ocean, and Indian Ocean for all branches of the U.S. Department of Defense and other U.S. government agencies.