1990 Pacific typhoon season

Severe tropical storm (JMA)
Category 1 typhoon (SSHWS)
Duration	January 12 – January 17
Peak intensity	100 km/h (65 mph) (10-min); 980 hPa (mbar)

On January 12, both the JMA and the JTWC identified a tropical depression in the northwest Pacific Ocean. The depression intensified over the period of a day to become a tropical storm on January 13, when it received the name Koryn from the JTWC. According to them, but not the JMA, Koryn reached typhoon strength on January 15, when it peaked in intensity. The storm then weakened quite rapidly until it became extratropical on January 17, at 0000 UTC.

Tropical storm (JMA)
Tropical storm (SSHWS)
Duration	April 28 – May 4
Peak intensity	65 km/h (40 mph) (10-min); 998 hPa (mbar)

Tropical Storm Lewis was a minimal tropical storm that only held said intensity for two days.

Typhoon (JMA)
Category 2 typhoon (SSHWS)
Duration	May 15 – May 19
Peak intensity	130 km/h (80 mph) (10-min); 965 hPa (mbar)

Marian was a typhoon over the South China Sea.

Tropical depression (HKO)
Tropical depression (SSHWS)
Duration	June 14 – June 16
Peak intensity	55 km/h (35 mph) (10-min); 995 hPa (mbar)

04W was short-lived.

Severe tropical storm (JMA)
Tropical storm (SSHWS)
Duration	June 14 – June 19
Peak intensity	100 km/h (65 mph) (10-min); 980 hPa (mbar)

A tropical disturbance trekked across the Philippines in mid June, upon entering the South China Sea a depression formed. The depression was upgraded to Tropical Storm Nathan on June 16. Tropical Storm Nathan reached peak intensity of 65 mph (100 km/h) shortly before striking Hainan Island. In the South China Sea the Chinese ship Tien Fu sank killing 4 people. In southern China torrential rains caused flooding in Guangdong Province killing 10 people, two people drowned in Macau due to high waves. Tropical Storm Nathan then continued northwestwards making a final landfall near the Vietnam/China border.[2]

Typhoon (JMA)
Category 2 typhoon (SSHWS)
Duration	June 16 – June 25
Peak intensity	120 km/h (75 mph) (10-min); 970 hPa (mbar)

The monsoon trough spawned a tropical depression east of the Philippines on June 15. It tracked to the northwest then westward, slowly organizing into a tropical storm on June 18. Ofelia turned more to the northwest and became a typhoon on June 20. Paralleling the east coast of the Philippines, it reached a peak of 100 mph (155 km/h) winds before hitting Taiwan on June 23. Ofelia weakened over the country, and brushed eastern China before dissipating on June 25 near Korea. Ofelia caused heavy flooding throughout its track, resulting in at least 64 casualties.

Typhoon (JMA)
Category 4 typhoon (SSHWS)
Duration	June 20 – June 30
Peak intensity	150 km/h (90 mph) (10-min); 950 hPa (mbar)

Typhoon Percy, which developed on June 20, reached a peak of 135 mph winds while located a short distance east of the northern Philippines. Increasing vertical shear weakened Percy to a 95 mph typhoon before crossing extreme northern Luzon on the 27th, an area that felt the effects of Ofelia only days before. It remained a weak typhoon until hitting southeastern China on the 29th before dissipating on the 1st. Percy caused serious damage and flooding in the Carolina Islands and northern Philippines, amounting to 9 deaths.

Tropical storm (JMA)
Tropical storm (SSHWS)
Duration	July 4 – July 13
Peak intensity	85 km/h (50 mph) (10-min); 992 hPa (mbar)

The outskirts of the storm brought 244 mm (9.6 in) of rainfall to Vladivostok in the Russian Far East.[3]

Tropical depression (CMA)
Duration	July 20 – July 23
Peak intensity	55 km/h (35 mph) (10-min); 1000 hPa (mbar)

CMA 11 was an short lived system which hit Vietnam, bringing heavy rains, overall minimal damage.

Severe tropical storm (JMA)
Tropical storm (SSHWS)
Duration	July 21 – August 1
Peak intensity	100 km/h (65 mph) (10-min); 980 hPa (mbar)

65 mph Tropical Storm Tasha, which developed on July 22 and meandered through the South China Sea, hit southern China on the 30th, 75 miles east of Hong Kong. The storm caused torrential flooding in southern China, causing widespread damage and 108 fatalities.

Very strong typhoon (JMA)
Category 4 typhoon (SSHWS)
Duration	July 23 – August 3
Peak intensity	155 km/h (100 mph) (10-min); 940 hPa (mbar)

Steve recurved out at sea.

Typhoon (JMA)
Category 2 typhoon (SSHWS)
Duration	July 26 – August 9
Peak intensity	140 km/h (85 mph) (10-min); 955 hPa (mbar)

Vernon followed Steve's track.

Severe tropical storm (JMA)
Category 1 typhoon (SSHWS)
Duration	August 4 – August 11
Peak intensity	110 km/h (70 mph) (10-min); 975 hPa (mbar)

The origins of Winona can be traced back to Severe Tropical Storm Tasha. On August 2, the remnant low of Tasha, as a patch of thunderstorms over northeastern China, was pushed to the east by a weather front from the west. By August 4, Tasha entered the Yellow Sea, before being pushed south by an anticyclone off northeastern Korea, into the East China Sea. Although the same system, Tasha was named Winona, as it started to strengthen into a tropical storm by August 7. It reached peak intensity with an eye-like feature on August 8, before landfalling over Japan the next day. Later, the remnants became extratropical.

Typhoon (JMA)
Category 2 typhoon (SSHWS)
Duration	August 11 – August 23
Peak intensity	150 km/h (90 mph) (10-min); 950 hPa (mbar)

Typhoon Yancy killed 12 people in the Philippines after a landslide destroyed a dormitory. In China, severe damage occurred and at least 216 people were killed.[4] 20 people were killed in Taiwan.[5]

Tropical storm (JMA)
Tropical storm (SSHWS)
Duration	August 13 (Entered basin) – August 15
Peak intensity	75 km/h (45 mph) (10-min); 994 hPa (mbar)

Aka was a weak tropical storm. It originated from the Central Pacific hurricane basin and drifted west into the Northwestern Pacific basin on August 13.

Typhoon (JMA)
Category 3 typhoon (SSHWS)
Duration	August 15 – August 23
Peak intensity	140 km/h (85 mph) (10-min); 960 hPa (mbar)

On August 15, a large area of convection associated with the inflow of developing Typhoon Yancy was cut off, as Yancy was moving too fast to the west for the convection in the east to be absorbed into Yancy. By August 16, the convection developed a mid to low level circulation, and developed into tropical storm by August 18. Zola intensified into a typhoon by the next day, before reaching peak intensity on August 21. By the next day, Zola made landfall over Japan, before dissipating north of Japan. High winds and heavy rains produced by the storm killed three people and injured 22 others in Japan.

Typhoon (JMA)
Category 2 typhoon (SSHWS)
Duration	August 23 – September 2
Peak intensity	140 km/h (85 mph) (10-min); 955 hPa (mbar)

Forming on August 23 from a tropical disturbance, the depression which would eventually develop into Typhoon Abe initially tracked in a steady west-northwestward direction. As a result of an intense monsoon surge, the system's trajectory briefly changed to an eastward then northward path before returning to its original track. Abe only intensified by a small amount between 0000 UTC August 24 and 0600 UTC August 27 due to the disruptive effects of the surge, and on August 30, Abe peaked in intensity as a Category 2-equivalent typhoon on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale. After peaking in intensity, Abe crossed the Ryukyu Islands and the East China Sea, making landfall in China where it affected the provinces of Zhejiang and Jiangsu before entering the Yellow Sea, crossing South Korea, and finally transitioning into an extratropical cyclone.[6][7]

Typhoon Abe killed 108–195 people after it caused flooding and landslides in the Philippines and Taiwan, ravaged coastal areas of China, and brought high waves to Japan.[6][8][9] Abe, which is responsible for killing 108 in China, affected half of Zhejiang's land area and a fourth of its population, leaving thousands homeless and causing ¥3.5 billion yuan (RMB, $741.5–743 million USD) to be lost in damages.[7][9][10][11] Additional damage and one fatality occurred in Okinawa Prefecture in Japan, where at least ¥890 million yen (JPY, US$6 million) in damage was caused.[8][12][13]

Typhoon (JMA)
Category 1 typhoon (SSHWS)
Duration	August 23 – August 30
Peak intensity	130 km/h (80 mph) (10-min); 965 hPa (mbar)

Tropical Storm Becky, having developed on August 20, hit northern Luzon on the 26th as a strong tropical storm. It strengthened over the South China Sea to an 80 mph typhoon, and hit northern Vietnam at that intensity on the 29th. Becky was responsible for killing 32 people and causing heavy flooding.

Tropical depression (JMA)
Tropical storm (SSHWS)
Duration	September 2 – September 4
Peak intensity	85 km/h (50 mph) (1-min); 1002 hPa (mbar)

Cecil hit China.

Typhoon (JMA)
Category 1 typhoon (SSHWS)
Duration	September 3 – September 11
Peak intensity	140 km/h (85 mph) (10-min); 960 hPa (mbar)

Typhoon Dot formed from a monsoon trough to the southwest of Guam. Dot moved steadily towards the northwest and strengthened into a typhoon. Typhoon Dot reached peak intensity of 85 mph before weakening slight before landfall on eastern Taiwan on 7 September. After passing Taiwan Dot regained typhoon intensity in the Formosa Strait before making a final landfall in Fujian Province, China. On northern Luzon Island rains from Typhoon Dot caused floods killing 4 people, on Taiwan 3 people died.[2]

Typhoon (JMA)
Category 2 typhoon (SSHWS)
Duration	September 9 – September 20
Peak intensity	130 km/h (80 mph) (10-min); 965 hPa (mbar)

Severe flooding produced by the storm killed at least 18 people in Vietnam. At least 4,500 homes were destroyed and another 140,000 were inundated.[14]

Violent typhoon (JMA)
Category 5 super typhoon (SSHWS)
Duration	September 12 – September 20
Peak intensity	220 km/h (140 mph) (10-min); 890 hPa (mbar)

Typhoon Flo, which developed on September 12, rapidly intensified on the 16th and 17th to a 165 mph super typhoon near Okinawa. Vertical shear weakened it as it recurved to the northeast, and Flo hit Honshū, Japan, on the 19th as a 100 mph typhoon. It continued rapidly northeastward, became extratropical on the 20th, and dissipated on the 22nd. Widespread flooding and landslides killed 32 and caused millions in damage.

Typhoon (JMA)
Category 1 typhoon (SSHWS)
Duration	September 22 – September 30
Peak intensity	150 km/h (90 mph) (10-min); 950 hPa (mbar)

A tropical disturbance consolidated into a tropical depression on the 23rd of September to the east of the Philippines. Tropical Storm Gene was named as the storm moved towards the northwest and strengthened into a typhoon the next day. Typhoon Gene reached peak intensity of 95 mph on the 27th shortly before recurving towards the northeast. Gene then skimmed the coasts of Kyūshū, Shikoku and Honshū Islands in Japan before moving out to sea and turning extratropical. Winds on 85 mph were recorded on Kyūshū and heavy rains fell across the region, resulting floods and landslides killed 4 people.[2]

Typhoon (JMA)
Category 2 typhoon (SSHWS)
Duration	September 30 – October 8
Peak intensity	150 km/h (90 mph) (10-min); 950 hPa (mbar)

Typhoon Hattie formed as Typhoon Gene was accelerating towards Japan. Hattie strengthened into a typhoon on 3 October while moving towards the northwest and reached a peak intensity of 105 mph the next day. Typhoon Hattie began to recurve while west of the island of Okinawa. Heavy rains from Typhoons Flo, Gene and Hattie broke the drought that plagued the island. As Hattie accelerated towards Japan it was downgraded to a tropical storm before brushing pass Kyūshū and Shikoku before making landfall on Honshū Island. Heavy rains caused a landslide on Shikoku Island killing three people when a landslide hit a bus.[2]

Tropical storm (JMA)
Tropical storm (SSHWS)
Duration	October 1 – October 5
Peak intensity	65 km/h (40 mph) (10-min); 996 hPa (mbar)

Severe flooding in Thailand triggered by heavy rains from Ira killed at least 24 people.[15]

Tropical depression (JMA)
Tropical storm (SSHWS)
Duration	October 12 – October 14
Peak intensity	65 km/h (40 mph) (1-min); 1004 hPa (mbar)

Jeana hit southeast Asia.

Typhoon (JMA)
Category 2 typhoon (SSHWS)
Duration	October 14 – October 22
Peak intensity	140 km/h (85 mph) (10-min); 955 hPa (mbar)

A category 2 typhoon which did not impact land directly. It formed on October 14 and was classified as a Tropical Depression. It became a tropical storm and a typhoon later. Kyle reached a peak intensity of a Category 2 typhoon on September 20. Then, the storm turned eastward instead of affecting Japan. It stated to weaken and was classified as a tropical storm and eventually dissipated on the 22nd. Kyle did not kill anyone or cause any damage.

Tropical storm (JMA)
Tropical storm (SSHWS)
Duration	October 16 – October 20
Peak intensity	65 km/h (40 mph) (10-min); 998 hPa (mbar)

Extreme rainfall, peaking near 31.5 in (800 mm) triggered extensive flooding that left some regions under 6 ft (1.8 m) of water. At least 16 people were killed by the storm.[16]

Violent typhoon (JMA)
Category 5 super typhoon (SSHWS)
Duration	November 5 – December 3
Peak intensity	195 km/h (120 mph) (10-min); 910 hPa (mbar)

Super Typhoon Page formed on November 21 as a tropical depression. From there, it tracked slowly westward, making a cyclonic loop. Page continued westward, and strengthened into a Category 5 typhoon. It then accelerated northeastward, making landfall in Japan on November 30 as a Category 1 typhoon. Page dissipated over northeast Japan on December 3.[17]

Very strong typhoon (JMA)
Category 5 super typhoon (SSHWS)
Duration	November 6 – November 18
Peak intensity	185 km/h (115 mph) (10-min); 915 hPa (mbar)

Super Typhoon Mike was the deadliest typhoon of the season. It struck the central Philippines in mid-November, where landslides, flooding, and extreme wind damage to caused over 748 casualties and over $1.94 billion in damage (1990 USD).[18] The name Mike was retired after this season and replaced with Manny.

Severe tropical storm (JMA)
Tropical storm (SSHWS)
Duration	November 9 – November 12
Peak intensity	95 km/h (60 mph) (10-min); 990 hPa (mbar)

Nell also hit southeast Asia.

Very strong typhoon (JMA)
Category 5 super typhoon (SSHWS)
Duration	November 20 – December 4
Peak intensity	175 km/h (110 mph) (10-min); 925 hPa (mbar)

As Super Typhoon Owen crossed the Marshall Islands and Caroline Islands in mid to late November, it caused extreme damage to the many islands. Some islands lost 95%-99% of the dwellings, as well as 80-90% crops being destroyed. Through all of the damage, Owen only killed 2 people.[17]

Very strong typhoon (JMA)
Category 4 typhoon (SSHWS)
Duration	December 13 – December 23
Peak intensity	185 km/h (115 mph) (10-min); 915 hPa (mbar)

The final storm of the season, Russ, formed on December 13. The typhoon brought heavy damage to Guam when it passed near the island on December 20. Damage estimates ranged as high as $120 million (1990 USD), but nobody perished in the storm.

The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration uses its own naming scheme for tropical cyclones in their area of responsibility. PAGASA assigns names to tropical depressions that form within their area of responsibility and any tropical cyclone that might move into their area of responsibility. Should the list of names for a given year prove to be insufficient, names are taken from an auxiliary list, the first 10 of which are published each year before the season starts. Names not retired from this list will be used again in the 1994 season. This is the same list used for the 1986 season. PAGASA uses its own naming scheme that starts in the Filipino alphabet, with names of Filipino female names ending with "ng" (A, B, K, D, etc.). Names that were not assigned/going to use are marked in gray.

Due to the severity of damage and loss of life caused by Mike, the name was retired and was replaced with Manny and was first used in the 1993 season. PAGASA also retired the name Ruping for similar reasons and was replaced with Ritang for the 1994 season.