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| 2019 Typhoon Hagibis | |
|---|---|
| Name | 2019 Typhoon Hagibis |
| Basin | WPac |
| Year | 2019 |
| Type | typhoon |
| Formed | October 2, 2019 |
| Dissipated | October 25, 2019 |
| 10-min winds | 100 |
| 1-min winds | 140 |
| Pressure | 915 |
| Fatalities | 98 |
| Damage | 15000000000 |
2019 Typhoon Hagibis Typhoon Hagibis was a powerful tropical cyclone that struck parts of East Asia in October 2019, producing catastrophic flooding and widespread damage across Japan, Philippines, Russia's Far East waters, and affecting shipping lanes near the Mariana Islands. It developed from a tropical disturbance near the Caroline Islands and intensified as it tracked northward under influences from the North Pacific Ocean circulation and the Western Pacific typhoon season. The storm's rapid intensification, expansive core, and landfall in Honshu led to historic rainfall, emergency declarations from the Prime Minister of Japan, and a large-scale international relief response from agencies including the United Nations and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
A tropical disturbance east of the Philippine Sea organized into a tropical depression near the Federated States of Micronesia before the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) and the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) began advisories. The system moved west-northwest under steering from the North Pacific subtropical ridge and underwent rapid intensification while traversing warm waters near the Mariana Trench and the Philippine Sea Plate. The cyclone reached typhoon status and later attained peak intensity with minimum central pressure measured by the JMA and JTWC, influenced by an upper-level outflow linked to an adjacent tropical upper tropospheric trough. Approaching the Ryukyu Islands, interaction with a mid-latitude trough and eventual landfall on the Izu Peninsula produced extratropical transition as the system merged with a baroclinic zone associated with the Kuroshio Current and the Aleutian Low.
Warnings and advisories were issued by the Japan Meteorological Agency, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration, and the Korea Meteorological Administration as the storm tracked north. The Cabinet Office (Japan) coordinated evacuations with prefectural governments such as Kanagawa Prefecture, Chiba Prefecture, Shizuoka Prefecture, and Nagano Prefecture, while transport operators including Japan Railways Group and airlines like All Nippon Airways suspended services. The Prime Minister of Japan activated emergency response centers and the Self-Defense Forces were placed on standby, while nongovernmental organizations such as Japan Red Cross Society and international partners like the United States Agency for International Development prepared logistics for potential relief. Major international events including matches of the Rugby World Cup in Tokyo were postponed or canceled in response to safety assessments by local authorities.
Hagibis produced record-setting precipitation across central and eastern Honshu, causing catastrophic flooding in river basins such as the Tama River and the Tenryū River. Urban areas including Nagoya, Yokohama, Saitama, Fukushima, and parts of the Greater Tokyo Area experienced inundation, prompting large-scale evacuations directed by municipal offices and the National Police Agency (Japan). Infrastructure damage affected high-speed rail services like the Tōkaidō Shinkansen and the Tōhoku Shinkansen, airports including Haneda Airport and Narita International Airport, and major ports such as Yokohama Port. Power outages impacted millions served by utilities like Tokyo Electric Power Company and Chubu Electric Power. Casualties were reported across prefectures with fatalities confirmed by prefectural police offices and the Fire and Disaster Management Agency of Japan. Agriculture and fisheries suffered extensive losses in regions including Ibaraki Prefecture and Miyagi Prefecture, while cultural heritage sites administered by agencies such as the Agency for Cultural Affairs (Japan) incurred damage.
The Cabinet Office (Japan) coordinated reconstruction efforts with prefectural governments and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (Japan), deploying the Japan Self-Defense Forces for search, rescue, and logistics alongside volunteer groups like Japan Platform and the Japanese Red Cross Society. Restoration of transportation infrastructure involved the East Japan Railway Company and the Central Japan Railway Company, with debris removal and levee repairs overseen by municipal public works departments and contractors working under procurement rules of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (Japan). Temporary shelters were managed by local boards of education and welfare bureaus, while insurance claims were processed through companies such as Japan Post Insurance and the General Insurance Association of Japan. Reconstruction funding and disaster relief budgets were debated in the National Diet (Japan), and long-term mitigation planning referenced lessons from previous events like the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami and Typhoon Jebi (2018).
Hagibis set or approached rainfall and flood records in multiple locations measured by the Japan Meteorological Agency's observation network and river gauges operated by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (Japan). Peak hourly and daily totals placed the storm among the most intense non-tropical-cyclone-related rain events in several basin records maintained by the Water Resources Agency and academic research from institutions such as the University of Tokyo's Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute. Due to the severity of impacts and naming conventions used by the World Meteorological Organization, the name assigned to the storm by the Typhoon Committee was retired at subsequent meetings, and a replacement name was selected by the contributing member country.
Following initial assessments, international agencies including the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, and bilateral partners such as the United States Department of State and the Government of Australia offered coordination, technical assistance, and humanitarian commodities. Nonprofit organizations like Médecins Sans Frontières and Save the Children provided support for vulnerable populations, while multinational corporations coordinated logistics with port operators and shipping firms like Mitsui O.S.K. Lines and Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha. Academic collaborations involving the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology contributed to post-event analyses, and international insurance pools engaged with domestic insurers to estimate economic impacts.
Category:Typhoons in Japan Category:2019 Pacific typhoon season