Typhoon Tapah (2019)

Typhoon Tapah (Nimfa)
Tapah over the East China Sea on September 21
Meteorological history
FormedSeptember 17, 2019
DissipatedSeptember 22, 2019
Typhoon
10-minute sustained (JMA)
Highest winds130 km/h (80 mph)
Lowest pressure969 hPa (mbar); 28.61 inHg
Category 1-equivalent typhoon
1-minute sustained (SSHWS)
Highest winds140 km/h (85 mph)
Lowest pressure967 hPa (mbar); 28.56 inHg
Overall effects
Fatalities3
Damage>$6.9 million (2025 USD)
Areas affectedTaiwan, East China, Japan, South Korea
IBTrACS

Part of the 2019 Pacific typhoon season

Typhoon Tapah, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Nimfa, was a fairly strong tropical cyclone that peaked as a Category 1-equivalent typhoon, causing damages in Japan and South Korea in mid-September 2019. The seventeenth named storm and the seventh typhoon of the 2019 Pacific typhoon season, Tapah formed on September 17 from the remnants of Tropical Depression Marilyn.