Typhoon Longwang
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- There was also a Tropical Storm Longwang in the 2000 Pacific typhoon season.
| Typhoon (JMA) | |||
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| Category 4 super typhoon (SSHS) | |||
 Typhoon Longwang in the Pacific Ocean on September 28, 2005. |
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| Formed | September 26, 2005 | ||
| Dissipated | October 3, 2005 (local time) | ||
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| Lowest pressure | 930 hPa | ||
| Damage | $150 million (preliminary estimates; China only) [1] | ||
| Fatalities | 96 direct (1 in Taiwan, 95 in China) | ||
| Areas affected |
Far southern areas of the Ryūkyū Islands, Taiwan, Fujian Province and other parts of eastern China | ||
| Part of the 2005 Pacific typhoon season |
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Typhoon Longwang (Traditional Chinese: 龍王, Simplified Chinese: 龙王; international designation: 0519, JTWC designation: 19W, dubbed Typhoon Maring for Philippine advisories, also known as Super Typhoon Longwang) was the fourth Super Typhoon of the 2005 Pacific typhoon season, with maximum wind speeds of 130 knots (240 km/h) at peak intensity. It made landfall twice, killing 96 people.
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[edit] Storm history
The system formed about 335 nautical miles south-southeast of Iwo Jima, Japan on September 26. The Joint Typhoon Warning Center initiated a warning for it at 00:00 UTC the same day. It was upgraded to Tropical Storm Longwang six hours later. Longwang is Chinese for Dragon King. At 03:00 UTC September 27, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center upgraded it to a typhoon. It continued to increase in strength as it tracked west to west-northwest towards Taiwan. PAGASA named the storm Maring for Philippine warnings on September 29. It made landfall near Hualien City, Taiwan on October 2.
The typhoon was upgraded to Category 2 strength on September 27, and again to Category 3 strength later that day. It was further upgraded to Category 4 strength at 06:00 UTC the next day, and finally on September 29 it was upgraded to a Super Typhoon (although it would still have been a Category 4 on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale if it were an Atlantic tropical cyclone). The next day at 09:00 UTC, the storm had weakened sufficiently for it to be declassified as a Super Typhoon.
After pounding Taiwan on October 2 (October 1 UTC), Longwang entered Taiwan Strait as it kept weakening. It lashed Fujian Province as well, making its second landfall at 9:35pm local time (13:35 UTC) as a minimal typhoon.
[edit] Impact
The typhoon, which had earlier killed one man in Taiwan, and one woman was reported missing after being caught in currents and dragged into a raging river [2], also caused massive landslides. Some military students were washed away by floodwater and mudslides in Fujian province. 57 of them were rescued, 80 were found dead and 5 were left missing. Apart from the military students, another 15 deaths were reported.
For many parts of southern and Eastern China, Typhoon Longwang came on the heels of Typhoons Talim, Khanun and Damrey, which killed more than 130 people. The Joint Typhoon Warning Center issued its final advisory on Longwang as a minimal typhoon over China, 200 nautical miles (370 km) west of Taipei at 21:00 UTC October 2.
- Weather Underground's tracking chart of Typhoon Longwang (Maring).
- The JMA's best track information for 2005 storms.
[edit] Retirement
It was decided at the 38th session of the ESCAP/WMO Typhoon Committee in Hanoi, Vietnam in November 2005 that the name Longwang would be retired along with Matsa and Nabi. Replacement names were to be submitted at the 39th session in Manila in December 2006.[3] China submitted Haikui (海葵), meaning sea anemone.[4]
