1953 Pacific typhoon season | |
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Seasonal boundaries | |
First system formed | February 18, 1953 |
Last system dissipated | December 22, 1953 |
Strongest storm | |
Name | Nina |
• Maximum winds | 295 km/h (185 mph) (1-minute sustained) |
• Lowest pressure | 885 hPa (mbar) |
Seasonal statistics | |
Total storms | 24 |
Typhoons | 17 |
Super typhoons | 5 (unofficial) |
Total fatalities | 430 |
Total damage | Unknown |
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The 1953 Pacific typhoon season has no official bounds; it ran year-round in 1953, 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 1953 Pacific hurricane season. Tropical Storms formed in the entire west Pacific basin were assigned a name by the Fleet Weather Center on Guam.