Typhoon Tapah (2019)
Tapah over the East China Sea on September 21 | |
| Meteorological history | |
|---|---|
| Formed | September 17, 2019 |
| Dissipated | September 22, 2019 |
| Typhoon | |
| 10-minute sustained (JMA) | |
| Highest winds | 130 km/h (80 mph) |
| Lowest pressure | 969 hPa (mbar); 28.61 inHg |
| Category 1-equivalent typhoon | |
| 1-minute sustained (SSHWS) | |
| Highest winds | 140 km/h (85 mph) |
| Lowest pressure | 967 hPa (mbar); 28.56 inHg |
| Overall effects | |
| Fatalities | 3 |
| Damage | >$6.9 million (2025 USD) |
| Areas affected | Taiwan, 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.