&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:Cimaron_2018-08-22_0135Z.jpg) Typhoon Cimaron at peak intensity near Iwo To on August 22 | |
| Meteorological history | |
|---|---|
| Formed | August 16, 2018 |
| Extratropical | August 24, 2018 |
| Dissipated | August 24, 2018 |
| Very strong typhoon | |
| 10-minute sustained (JMA) | |
| Highest winds | 155 km/h (100 mph) |
| Lowest pressure | 950 hPa (mbar); 28.05 inHg |
| Category 4-equivalent typhoon | |
| 1-minute sustained (SSHWS/JTWC) | |
| Highest winds | 215 km/h (130 mph) |
| Lowest pressure | 936 hPa (mbar); 27.64 inHg |
| Overall effects | |
| Fatalities | 3 total |
| Damage | $30.6 million (2018 USD) |
| Areas affected | Marshall Islands, Mariana Islands, Japan, Russian Far East, Alaska |
| IBTrACS | |
Part of the 2018 Pacific typhoon season | |
Typhoon Cimaron was a typhoon that caused minimal impacts in the Mariana Islands and Japan in August 2018. The twenty-third depression, twenty-first named storm, eleventh severe tropical storm, and seventh typhoon of the 2018 Pacific typhoon season, Cimaron developed from a tropical depression near the Marshall Islands on August 16. The depression soon became Tropical Storm Cimaron on August 18. Cimaron gradually intensified into a typhoon on August 21, and rapidly reached its peak intensity the next day. Cimaron then weakened before making two landfalls in Japan as a Category 1 typhoon on August 23. Cimaron continued to weaken until it became an extratropical cyclone and dissipated on August 24.
Cimaron brought flash flooding to the Mariana Islands, namely Saipan. The storm then hit southern Japan as a Category 1 typhoon causing major travel disruptions along with minimal structural damage. About 33 people were injured and 3 people were swept out to sea. Agricultural damage in the country totaled JP¥3.41 billion (US$30.6 million). However, this damage was soon overshadowed by Typhoon Jebi nearly two weeks later.