1969 Pacific typhoon season

1969 Pacific typhoon season
Season summary map
Seasonal boundaries
First system formed	January 16, 1969
Last system dissipated	December 30, 1969
Strongest storm
Name	Elsie
• Maximum winds	280 km/h (175 mph) (1-minute sustained)
• Lowest pressure	895 hPa (mbar)
Seasonal statistics
Total depressions	61
Total storms	19
Typhoons	13
Super typhoons	2 (unofficial)
Total fatalities	1,177
Total damage	Unknown
Related articles
1969 Atlantic hurricane season 1969 Pacific hurricane season 1969 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
Pacific typhoon seasons 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971

The 1969 Pacific typhoon season was the fourth least-active season on record.^[1] The season had no official bounds; it ran year-round in 1969, but most tropical cyclones tend to form in the northwestern Pacific Ocean between June and December. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the northwestern Pacific Ocean.

The scope of this article is limited to the Pacific Ocean, north of the equator and west of the International Date Line. Storms that form east of the date line and north of the equator are called hurricanes; see 1969 Pacific hurricane season. Tropical Storms formed in the entire west pacific basin were assigned a name by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center. Tropical depressions in this basin have the "W" suffix added to their number. Tropical depressions that enter or form in the Philippine area of responsibility are assigned a name by the Philippine Weather Bureau (the predecessor of the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration or PAGASA, which was formed three years later, in 1972). This can often result in the same storm having two names.