Typhoon Longwang

Infobox Hurricane
Name=Typhoon Longwang
Type=typhoon
Year=2005
Basin=WPac
Image location=Typhoon Longwang 01 oct 2005 0505Z.jpg

Pacific Ocean on October 1, 2005
Formed=September 26, 2005
Dissipated=October 2, 2005
1-min winds=130
10-min winds=95
Pressure=930
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Inflated=1
Fatalities=148 direct
Areas=Southern Ryūkyū Islands, Taiwan, China
Hurricane season=2005 Pacific typhoon season

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 148 people. Damage totaled $100 million (2005 USD) on Taiwan, with an additional $150 million on Mainland China. [http://www.em-dat.net/index.htm]

Meteorological history

The system formed about convert|335|nmi|km 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 Longwang pounded Taiwan on October 2 (October 1 UTC), it entered the 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.

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 [http://www.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/10/02/longwang.ap/index.html] , also caused massive landslides. Some military students were washed away by floodwater and mudslides in Fujian province. In all, 147 people died in the People's Republic of China. [ [http://english.gov.cn/2006-03/24/content_235583.htm CMA solicits new typhoon name ] ]

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 [http://maps.wunderground.com/data/images/wp200519.gifTyphoon Longwang (Maring)] .
* The JMA's [http://www.jma.go.jp/jma/jma-eng/jma-center/rsmc-hp-pub-eg/Besttracks/bst2005.txt best track information] for 2005 storms.

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. [ [http://www.disaster.go.th/html/ricb/foreign/2006/tc/typhoon38.html 38th session ] ] China submitted "Haikui" (海葵), meaning sea anemone. [ [http://www.cma.gov.cn/qxxw/t20061213_171681.phtml ESCAP/WMO台风委员会第三十九次届会在菲律宾召开 ] ]

References

ee also

* List of tropical cyclones

External links

* [http://www.typhoon2000.ph Typhoon2000 Philippine typhoon website]
* [https://metocph.nmci.navy.mil/jtwc.html Joint Typhoon Warning Center]
* [http://www.weather.gov.hk/informtc/sound/tc_pronunciatione.htm Meaning of Tokyo Typhoon Centre names]
* [http://www.jma.go.jp/en/typh/ Japan Meteorological Agency - Tropical Cyclone Information ] [http://www.jma.go.jp/jp/typh/ (日本語)]
* [http://agora.ex.nii.ac.jp/digital-typhoon/ Digital Typhoon - Typhoon Images and Information ]