TROPICAL CYCLONES IN 2005

TABLE 4.2

TROPICAL CYCLONE WARNINGS FOR SHIPPING ISSUED IN 2005

Tropical cyclone	No. of warnings issued	Date and time of issue of				Duration (hours)
		First warning		Last warning
		Date/Month	Time⁺	Date/Month	Time⁺
Severe Tropical Storm Roke	15	16/3	1800	18/3	1200	42
Typhoon Haitang	24	17/7	0600	20/7	0300	69
Tropical Storm Washi	25	28/7	1200	31/7	1200	72
Typhoon Matsa	21	4/8	0000	6/8	1200	60
* Severe Tropical Storm Sanvu	21	11/8	0900	13/8	1500	54
Typhoon Talim	14	31/8	0300	1/9	1800	39
Typhoon Khanun	12	10/9	0900	11/9	1800	33
Tropical Depression	9	12/9	0900	13/9	0300	18
* Tropical Storm Vicente	21	16/9	0300	18/9	1200	57
* Typhoon Damrey	54	20/9	1500	27/9	0600	159
Typhoon Longwang	13	1/10	0900	2/10	2100	36
Tropical Depression	5	7/10	0600	7/10	1500	9
Typhoon Kai-tak	43	28/10	0900	2/11	1200	123
Tropical Storm Tembin	12	10/11	0000	11/11	0900	33
Severe Tropical Storm Bolaven	12	19/11	0300	20/11	1200	33
Total	301					837

* Tropical cyclones for which tropical cyclone warning signals were issued in Hong Kong.
+ Times are given in UTC.

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