Due to its proximity to land and a circulation displaced from the deep convection, both the JMA and the JTWC canceled their warnings as it made landfall over in Southern Vietnam.

[2] On November 3, the JMA started to track a tropical depression with winds of 55 km/h (35 mph) that had just formed as an area of low pressure off the coast of Malaysia.

[3] By November 4, the JTWC started to track the disturbance, as it was located about 343 km (185 nmi) east of Ho Chi Minh City, since the system had a rapidly consolidating center with flaring convection.

At that time, the depression was located in an area of low to moderate wind shear, very warm sea-surface temperatures and good divergence aloft.

[5] Just before November 5, the JTWC issued a Tropical Cyclone Formation Alert (TCFA), while located atop of warm waters with temperatures of approximately 29 °C (84.2 °F).

[8] The flooding, escalated by the depression, started to occurred as early as October when the remnants of Tropical Storm Aere and Typhoon Sarika affected most of Vietnam.

During October 15, it was reported that the low pressure triggered heavy rain with accumulations of about 300–900 mm (1–3 ft) recorded in coastal provinces with nine casualties.