1946 Pacific typhoon season

The 1946 Pacific typhoon season has no official bounds; it ran year-round in 1946, 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.

1946 Pacific typhoon season
Season summary map
Seasonal boundaries
First system formedMarch 27, 1946
Last system dissipatedNovember 20, 1946
Strongest storm
NameLilly
  Maximum winds220 km/h (140 mph)
(1-minute sustained)
  Lowest pressure927 hPa (mbar)
Seasonal statistics
Total storms19
Typhoons18
Super typhoons0 (unofficial)
Total fatalitiesUnknown
Total damageUnknown
Related articles

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 1946 Pacific hurricane season. At the time, tropical storms that formed within this region of the western Pacific were identified and named by the United States Armed Services, and these names are taken from the list that USAS publicly adopted before the 1945 season started.

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