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The 1977 Pacific typhoon season has no official bounds; it ran year-round in 1977, 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 1977 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.
[edit] Storms
21 tropical depressions formed this year in the Western Pacific, of which 19 became tropical storms. 11 storms reached typhoon intensity, of which 1 reached super typhoon strength.
[edit] Tropical Storm Patsy
[edit] Tropical Storm Ruth
[edit] Typhoon Sarah
[edit] Typhoon Thelma
A tropical disturbance east of the Philippines organized into a tropical depression on July 21. It moved to the northwest, strengthening into a tropical storm later that day and into a typhoon on the 22nd. After passing northern Luzon Thelma turned to the north, where it reached a peak intensity of 95 mph winds. The typhoon hit southern Taiwan on the 25th, crossed the island, and dissipated over southeastern China on the 26th. Though not a particularly strong storm, Thelma brought strong wind gusts and heavy rain, claiming more than 30 lives and bringing damage and destruction not seen to the island for over 80 years.
[edit] Typhoon Vera
Just 6 days after Thelma hit Taiwan, another typhoon was brewing to its east. Typhoon Vera, which developed on July 28, hit eastern Taiwan on the 31st as a 130 mph typhoon. It continued westward, and dissipated over southeastern China. The storm caused 25 additional fatalities to the island, with vast amounts of crop and property damage occurring.
[edit] Tropical Storm Wanda
[edit] Tropical Storm Amy
[edit] Super Typhoon Babe
- Main article: Typhoon Babe
On September 2, Tropical Depression 10 developed well east of the Philippines. Later that day, it reached tropical storm status, and Babe continued to the west, threatening the central Philippines. A break in the subtropical ridge forced Babe northward, where favorable conditions aloft allowed Babe to rapidly intensify, first to a typhoon on the 6th, then to a super typhoon on the 8th. With a northwest movement, the typhoon-flogged Taiwan was again threatened, but Babe turned to the northeast, hitting Okinoerabu Island, Kagoshima. Now Japan was threatened, and full precautions were put in place. Like most of its lifetime, though, Babe changed course, and turned to the northwest in response to the building of the ridge to Babe's northeast. There, unfavorable conditions weakened Babe to a minimal typhoon as it hit near Shanghai, China on the 10th. Babe caused 16 casualties, mostly from shipping, and minor to moderate damage on its path. Those statistics would have been higher if it continued in any one direction of its lifetime.
[edit] Tropical Storm Carla
[edit] Typhoon Dinah
The monsoon trough spawned a tropical storm on September 14 northeast of the northern Philippines. The previous typhoon brought the trough more northward, hence the unusually high latitude for a monsoon storm. Strong high pressure to Dinah's northwest forced the storm to the southwest, where it crossed northern Luzon on the 15th and 16th. Weak steering currents in the South China Sea allowed Dinah to drift, first then to the northeast then back to the west-southwest. Generally favorable conditions allowed Dinah to reach typhoon strength on the 19th, but a developing tropical storm to its northeast caused it to weaken. The building of the subtropical ridge forced Dinah to the southwest, where it hit southern Vietnam on the 23rd as a tropical depression. The remnants turned northward, crossed the Gulf of Tonkin, and dissipated over China on the 27th. Dinah brought heavy rain and flooding to Luzon, causing 15 deaths and moderate damage.
[edit] Tropical Storm Emma
[edit] Tropical Storm Freda
Tropical Storm Freda struck Hong Kong killing one person.[2]
[edit] Typhoon Gilda
[edit] Tropical Storm Harriet
[edit] Typhoon Ivy
[edit] Typhoon Jean
[edit] Typhoon Kim
Typhoon Kim was a 135 mph typhoon that hit the northern Philippines on November 13. The typhoon's heavy rains caused flashflooding that left 55 people dead with widespread damage. A further 47 people died when an upper floors of an hotel caught fire during the storm.
[edit] Typhoon Lucy
[edit] Typhoon Mary
[edit] 1977 storm names
Western North Pacific tropical cyclones were named by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center. The first storm of 1977 was named Patsy and the final one was named Mary.
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Agnes
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Bonnie
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Carmen
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Della
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Elaine
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Faye
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Gloria
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Hester
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Irma
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Judy
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Kit
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Lola
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Mamie
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Nina
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Ora
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Phyllis
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Rita
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Susan
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Tess
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Viola
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Winnie
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Alice
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Betty
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Cora
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Doris
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Elsie
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Flossie
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Grace
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Helen
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Ida
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June
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Kathy
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Lorna
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Marie
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Nancy
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Olga
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Pamela
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Ruby
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Sally
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Therese
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Violet
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Wilda
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Anita
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Billie
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Clara
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Dot
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Ellen
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Fran
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Georgia
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Hope
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Iris
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Joan
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Kate
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Louise
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Marge
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Nora
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Opal
- Patsy 1W
- Ruth 3W
- Sarah 5W
- Thelma 6W
- Vera 7W
- Wanda 8W
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- Amy 9W
- Babe 10W
- Carla 11W
- Dinah 12W
- Emma 13W
- Freda 14W
- Gilda 15W
- Harriet 16W
- Ivy 17W
- Jean 18W
- Kim 19W
- Lucy 20W
- Mary 21W
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Nadine
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Olive
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Polly
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Rose
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Shirley
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Trix
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Virginia
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Wendy
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[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al 1977 ATCR TABLE OF CONTENTS
- ^ Historical Information
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