2014 Pacific typhoon season

2014 Pacific typhoon season
Season summary map
Seasonal boundaries
First system formed	January 10, 2014
Last system dissipated	January 1, 2015
Strongest storm
Name	Vongfong
• Maximum winds	215 km/h (130 mph) (10-minute sustained)
• Lowest pressure	900 hPa (mbar)
Seasonal statistics
Total depressions	32
Total storms	23
Typhoons	11
Super typhoons	8 (unofficial)
Total fatalities	572 total
Total damage	$12.92 billion (2014 USD)
Related articles
Timeline of the 2014 Pacific typhoon season 2014 Atlantic hurricane season 2014 Pacific hurricane season 2014 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
Pacific typhoon seasons 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016

The 2014 Pacific typhoon season was a slightly below average season in terms of named storms, but featured the highest amount of Category 5 typhoons since 1997. This was mainly due to a developing El Niño that favors multiple powerful storms to form in the basin. The season formed twenty-three tropical storms (including one that crossed over from the Eastern/Central Pacific), eleven typhoons, eight super typhoons, and seven Category 5 typhoons. The season's peak months August and September saw minimal activity caused by an unusually strong and a persistent suppressing phase of the Madden–Julian oscillation (MJO). The season ran throughout 2014, though most tropical cyclones typically develop between May and October. The season began with the development of Tropical Storm Lingling on January 18, and ended after Tropical Storm Jangmi which dissipated on January 1 of the next year.

The season was not as active, deadly and costly as the previous typhoon season, but was notable for producing a series of powerful super typhoons. In fact, this season saw the most storms reaching Category 5 intensity on the Saffir–Simpson scale (seven–Neoguri, Rammasun, Halong, Genevieve, Vongfong, Nuri and Hagupit) since 1997. Two of those were notable; Rammasun became one of only four Category 5 typhoons recorded in the South China Sea with the others being Typhoon Pamela in 1954, Typhoon Rai in 2021 and Typhoon Yagi in 2024. The typhoon killed about 200 people and caused roughly US$8 billion worth of damage in China and the Philippines. Genevieve, a long-lasting system, was the first since 1999 for a system to exist in all three Northern Pacific basins.^[1]

The scope of this article is limited to the Pacific Ocean to the north of the equator between 100°E and 180th meridian. Within the northwestern Pacific Ocean, there are two separate agencies that assign names to tropical cyclones which can often result in a cyclone having two names. The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) will name a tropical cyclone should it be judged to have 10-minute sustained wind speeds of at least 65 kilometres per hour (40 mph) anywhere in the basin, whilst the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) assigns names to tropical cyclones which move into or form as a tropical depression in their area of responsibility located between 135°E–115°E and between 5°N–25°N regardless of whether or not a tropical cyclone has already been given a name by the JMA. Tropical depressions that are monitored by the United States' Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) are given a number with a "W" suffix.