List of storms named Toraji

Last updated January 30, 2024

The name Toraji has been used to name four tropical cyclones in the northwestern Pacific Ocean. The name was submitted by North Korea and refers to a species of flower, the bellflower (Platycodon grandiflorus).

Typhoon Toraji (2001) (T0108, 11W, Isang) – impacted Taiwan and China, killing at least 72
Tropical Storm Toraji (2007) (T0703, 03W) – struck Vietnam
Tropical Storm Toraji (2013) (T1317, 15W) – struck Japan
Tropical Storm Toraji (2018) (T1827, 32W) – a weak system that struck Vietnam

Preceded by Yinxing	Pacific typhoon season names Toraji	Succeeded by Man-yi

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Tropical Storm Toraji was a short-lived and minimal tropical cyclone that brought inundating rainfall to areas of Southeast Asia in July 2007. The name Toraji was contributed to the western Pacific typhoon naming list by North Korea and stands for a broad bell flower. The third named storm of the annual typhoon season, Toraji developed from an area of disturbed weather within the South China Sea on July 4. As a result of its northwesterly track, the tropical depression moved over Hainan shortly after tropical cyclogenesis. Upon its emergence into the Gulf of Tonkin on July 5, Toraji quickly intensified into a tropical storm with winds of 65 km/h (40 mph); this would be the tropical cyclone's peak intensity for its entire duration. However, the JMA indicated that tropical storm intensity had been reached a day earlier. On the evening of July 5, Toraji made its final landfall on Dongxing, Guangxi before rapidly deteriorating inland and degenerating into a remnant low-pressure area by the following day.

In 2018, Vietnam was struck by several different deadly floods.

Tropical Storm Toraji was a weak, short-lived system that impacted Vietnam in November 2018. Forming as the twenty-seventh named storm of the 2018 Pacific typhoon season, Toraji developed as a tropical depression to the southeast of Vietnam on November 16. Quickly organising, the system strengthened into a tropical storm the next day. Toraji rapidly weakened thereafter early on November 18, when the storm made landfall over southeastern Vietnam, later dissipating. The storm's remnants moved into the Gulf of Thailand when Toraji re-organised back into a tropical depression on November 20. However Toraji quickly deteriorated on the same day as it moved closer to the Malay Peninsula.

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